All Entries Tagged With: "Type III Ordinary Construction"
RIT Team Rescues Two Pa. Firefighters Trapped in Blaze
RIT Team Rescues Two (PA) Firefighters Trapped in Blaze Five rowhomes in Girardville were destroyed by the fire sparked by Duraflame logs in a wood burner. Two firefighters had to be rescued after they became trapped while battling a fire in Girardville Wednesday night, according to The Republican Herald. Five rowhomes on Main Street were destroyed […]
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 […]
Commercial 2-11 Fire Chicago (IL)
Commercial 2-11 Fire Chicago (IL) Chicago 2-11 fire at 1896 Milwaukee, 1 story commercial…1 snorkel and 1 tower used. 2-11 alarm on Wednesday at 1896 Milwaukee Avenue in Chicago, Illinois. Video is by Steve Redick. Click here to see Steve’s Chicago Fire Department photos and to buy his books. From the Chicago Tribune: The alarm was […]
The Hubbard Street Fire: The 50th anniversary of a tragic dual collapse
The Hubbard Street Fire: The 50th anniversary of a tragic dual collapse January 28th, 2011 marks the 50th anniversary of the Hubbard Street Fire, which took the lives of nine Chicago firefighters: Battalion Chief George Rees Battalion Chief George Kuhn Lt. Charles Rauch Lt. Louis Repkin Firefighter Hillard Augustine Firefighter William Hillistad Firefighter Stanley Sliwinski Firefighter […]
Remembering FDNY Black Sunday…Multiple Firefighter LODDs January 23, 2005
FDNY: Remembering FDNY Black Sunday…LODD 2005 The call had come at 7:59 on a Sunday morning, the day after a January blizzard had shut down the city. There was still more than a foot of unplowed snow on East 178th Street off the Grand Concourse, and some of it was still swirling in 45-mile-an-hour gusts. […]
General Alarm Fire Downtown Lancaster (PA)
A general alarm fire in downtown Lancaster, Pennsylvania, destroyed the Zap and Company vintage store and left its owner, Steve Murray, in critical condition in the burn unit at Crozer Chester Medical Center. The fire began shortly before 9:00 p.m. on Thursday, January 20th and was fought by all available city crews as well as […]
DCFD Second Alarm Fire Residential
DC firefighters battled a two-alarm house fire this afternoon in the Shaw section of the city. The call came out at 15:41 hrs. First arriving Engine 6 reported heavy fire showing from side Alpha of a two-story end of row house. Fire was later reported in the attic area of the house as well. A […]
Five Alarm Tenament Fire (NJ)
A stubborn five-alarm fire that gutted a three-story brick apartment building on Washington Place kept Passaic (NJ) firefighters busy for more than four hours on Friday and sent a resident to a hospital with critical injuries, authorities said. The fire was reported just before 4 p.m. in a ground-floor apartment at 88 Washington Place, […]
Newark (NJ) Multiple Alarm Fire with Rescues
Daring rescues by Newark (NJ) firefighters saved the lives of more than two dozen people overnight in Newark, New Jersey. A fire broke out at around 11:30 p.m. on Sunday inside the Happy Garden Chinese Restaurant at 77 Lincoln Park, according to fire officials. The restaurant was closed at the time, according to several residents […]
VES:Flashover, Bailout and Close-call
N.J. Firefighter bailout from Second-Story Window as a result of room fashover An Asbury Park (NJ) firefighter was seriously burned while fighting an apartment fire in the seaside community. 41-year-old firefighter Jason Fazio was in listed in critical condition at St. Barnabas Burn Center in Livingston following Monday’s afternoon fire. Officials indicated that Firefighter Fazio was […]
Four Story Apartment Building, Five Alarm Fire Philadelphia
A fire at a four-story apartment complex in Philadelphia (PA) on Monday January 10th, 2010 spewed thick black smoke that could be seen for miles and sent flames shooting from the rooftop, endangering other buildings and forcing at least one nearby school to send children home early. Video: Massive Fire Guts Apartment House: MyFoxPHILLY.com Images, courtesy of […]
Structural Collapse Type III Vacant
Something exploded in this vacant building as firefighters battled a fire Monday night in Cairo, Illinois. A photographer for television station KFVS was rolling when the blast occurred and also caught the collapse a short time later.. The local fire chief says the fire started when four men were inside the building, looking for things to steal. […]
Five Alarm School Fire, Philadelphia
A fast-moving fire at a Philadelphia (PA) elementary school, which challenged PFD firefighters early this morning, has finally been placed under control. Crews responded out to the 5100 block of Warren Street in the city’s Parkside section just before 6:00 a.m. after a passing police officer noticed flames coming from the Global Leadership Academy Charter […]
Two Alarm Fire with Multiple Rescues San Francisco
At least 45 people were displaced from an apartment building damaged by a fire in San Francisco’s North Beach area early Saturday morning, an American Red Cross spokesman said. The two-alarm blaze was reported at 1:28 a.m. at 925 Montgomery St. near Pacific Street, a fire dispatcher said. At least a couple of people, […]
Theater Undergoing Deconstruction Collapses in Millville, New Jersey
There was great promise in the 102-year-old Levoy Theater. Just last week there were numerous articles about the gutting of the building with its facade left in place and new steel trusses for the roof. The new Levoy was supposed to be a centerpiece for downtown Millville with a scheduled reopening in July. The Levoy is now a […]
