Posts Categorized: Fireground Audio
San Francisco Fire Department releases report into deaths of Lt. Vincent Perez and FF/PM Anthony Valerio. Flashover caused when glass in sliding door shattered.
Chief says the key factor in the deaths was the window breaking which firefighters had not control over.
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Early raw video & fireground audio: Up close on initial attack at fatal apartment fire in Great Mills, Maryland.
Man found in chair in living room of apartment.
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Alexandria paramedic Joshua Weissman still critical after fall from overpass. Audio from car fire and rescue of medic.
Weissman is seven-year-veteran of the department.
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UPDATE – Audio from Philadelphia house fire with rescues. Three firefighters & four civilians hurt. Lt. critical but stable.
One firefighter seriously burned on both arms.
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Fireground audio & raw video: Baltimore battalion chief calls in dwelling fire with jumpers.
Battalion chief returning from another fire when he spots this one. Jumpers in the front and back.
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Dash-cam video & audio: House fire in Milton, Kentucky.
Fire showing as the ambulance and chief arrive first.
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Mayday audio: Firefighters need help in evacuating from Edmonton apartment fire.
Firefighters safely removed. Apartment building is destroyed.
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Arrival video & fireground audio: Vacant commercial building on fire in Northeast Washington, DC. Engine 10, Truck 13 first due.
Fire Sunday morning at 1236 Mt. Olivet Road, NE.
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From the archives: If you haven’t seen this before you will want to. Film of rescues from the 1963 Roosevelt Hotel fire in Jacksonville, Florida.
Ground ladders used to extend the reach of ladder trucks to make numerous rescues.
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Fireground audio: Townhouse explodes injuring two West Haverstraw, NY firefighters handling evacuation. Second close call for one of the firefighters in the last year.
Firefighters were checking townhouse fire occupants when it blew apart.
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UPDATE – Raw video & fireground audio: Old mill fire in Cornwall, New York. Watch collapse. Command has difficulty getting firefighters off roof & out of building.
Fire spread through interconnected buildings.
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30-years-ago today, twin disasters in DC. Air Florida Flight 90 crashes into the Potomac River followed by the first fatal Metro train accident. DCFD radio traffic, lessons learned & more.
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DCFD radio traffic from Air Florida Flight 90 and Metrorail crashes- Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4
Cockpit voice recorder audio from Air Florida Flight 90
Seconds From Disa…
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Fireground audio: Mayday in Toronto after firefighter falls through floor of burning storage facility. Five-alarm fire burns overnight.
Firefighter falls from third to second floor at storage facility but was able to walk out of building.
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Fireground audio: Detroit firefighters under attack at fatal fire with rescues try to get police to the scene. DPD says 13 minute response time is ‘acceptable’.
Chief 5: "Central, one way or another I am going to need police on the scene. We are starting to get a crowd of unruly citizens and they are starting to come after the firefighters."
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Stockton gets defensive: Early raw video of a house fire with evacuation tones.
Heavy fire conditions on second floor has IC ordering firefighters out.
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Video, pictures, fireground audio: Townhouse fire in Harford County, Maryland.
Call was received as an automatic fire alarm.
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Early video & fireground audio: House explosion & fire in Schenectady, NY.
News reports indicate a contractor pierced a gas line.
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IC dash-cam video & fireground audio: Tracy, California house fire.
Fire started in garage and spread to attic.
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Early video from Gary, Indiana building fire. Ladder truck catches fire.
Mutual aid from multiple jurisdictions.
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‘Get off the roof!’ Interesting audio from Sacramento fire with a report of people trapped as command orders a switch to defensive operations.
Indications squatters were living in the home, but searches were negative.
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Raw video & fireground audio: House fire in Depew, New York.
Move to defensive mode as fire progressed.
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Arrival video: Ride-along with DC Fire & EMS Department’s Truck 11 to Christmas Day house fire with a report of a person trapped.
One occupant treated on the scene by EMS.
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Downtown Vincennes, Indiana fire revisited. New video gives better view of fire’s progression & may cast doubt on some of the keyboard sizeups.
Keyboard ICs sometimes need a 360 too.
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Pre-arrival video, audio & mayday: Three-alarm townhouse fire in Brandywine Hundred, Delaware. Structural collapse.
Townhouse near collapse before firefighters arrive.
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FDNY early video & audio: Brooklyn 2nd alarm apartment fire. Citizen: ‘You’ve been here 10 minutes. Where’s the water?’