All Entries Tagged With: "occupied building"
Taxpayer Fire and Collapse with Mayday in Leslie, Michigan Injures Ten Firefighers
Ten firefighters were among 11 people injured during a blaze that caused part of a building’s roof to collapse in the mid-Michigan community of Leslie. Leslie is about 20 miles southeast of Lansing, Michigan. The fire was reported just before 7 a.m. Saturday at Moo’s Bar & Grille in downtown Leslie, but a “mayday” alert […]
FDNY: Five Alarm Wind-Whipped Fire Destroys Apartment Building in Brooklyn
FDNY: Five Alarm Wind-Whipped Fire Destroys Apartment Building in Brooklyn Twenty FDNY Firefighters Injured New York Daily News AN UNCONTROLLABLE FIRE RIPPED THROUGH a 7-story apartment building in Brooklyn, New York, Saturday night that kept more than 200 firefighters busy for over eight hours in their efforts to knock the blaze down. The call was dispatched […]
Condo Fire San Clemente (CA)
This fire occurred on January 21st at 242 El Portal in San Clemente, California. A fast moving fire at a condominium kept firefighter busy San Clemente Times: A swift-moving, two-alarm blaze at 242 West El Portal ravaged the four-unit building and threatened nearby structures before firefighters stamped it out. No one was injured in the fire that […]
Vacant Residential Building Fires Report
The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) United States Fire Administration (USFA) issued a special report examining the characteristics of fires in vacant residential buildings. The report, Vacant Residential Building Fires, was developed by USFA’s National Fire Data Center and is further evidence of FEMA’s commitment to sharing information with fire departments and first responders around […]