Posts Categorized: Major Incidents
Must see videos: Scores of explosions at Collingdale, Pennsylvania welding shop fire. Employees injured. Two old fire trucks destroyed.
Blasts forced evacuation of homes in the area.
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Fireground audio from 4-alarm hi-rise fire in Houston with reported mayday. At least 5 firefighters hurt. Standpipe issues.
Fire was on the 27th floor.
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Quick Takes
Fire & EMS news for Wednesday.
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The CNG bus fire: A more complete picture.
Video provides more fuel to the conversation in our comments section.
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Fatal Head-on Collision Shuts Road
CHARLESTON - One person was fatally injured during a head-on-collision on Highway 61. South Carolina Highway Patrol reports the accident was just inside the Dorchester County line near Middleton Gardens.
County Coroner Chris Nisbet said that a pers…
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OSHA Investigates Fire
OSHA confirms they are now looking into how the city handled its firefighters during a fire last month.
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Bus picking up injured firefighters following crash in Ontario turns over. Wife of firefighter killed.
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Nine-alarms in Boston: Praise for early setup of collapse zone at Roxbury warehouse.
Collapse occurred shortly after fireighters were pulled back.
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Can you name the largest fire in American history?
Most think they know. They don't.
Do you?
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Hydrant issue at apartment fire in Monsey, New York. Cop treated after clearing building.
75 firefighters fought Monday evening fire.
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Pre-arrival video: Underground fire forces evacuation of two hotels near White House.
Fireballs from underground rattled tourists.
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Flint rookie firefighter badly burned. Jeremy Turner had just been brought back following layoff.
Firefighter Turner fell through floor of burning home.
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Video: Mill fire in Haworth, England.
Nearby homes were evacuated because of exposure issues.
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Timing is everything: Fire district worried word of underage drinking & coverup will impact funding.
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An incident involving underage drinking by one of its members at a conference in June is coming back to haunt a Washington Stat…
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6 Detroit firefighters hurt when storefront brick walls collapse. Brother rescues brother at scene of rekindle.
Three firefighters reported in critical condition, two fair and one treated and released.
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FD Tackles New Challenge
CHARLESTON -- Charleston's Fire Department tackles one of its biggest challenges since the Sofa Super Store fire. On June 18th, 2007, a fire ripped through the Sofa Super Store. In the year following the fire, experts from around the country dissected wh…
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UPDATE: Virginia ladder hits 230,000 volt line during safety check. 3 firefighters slightly hurt. 31,000 lost power.
"We don't like that this happened, especially to us, but thankfully, nobody was seriously injured," said Dan Schmidt, a spokesperson for the Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department.
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Riley Ignorant of Routley Team Wanting Thomas Out?! Rigghhtt!
NOTE: The title of this story is loaded with sarcasm.
CHARLESTON - In the wake of the Sofa Super Store fire in June 2007, which took the lives of nine firefighters, Charleston Mayor Joe Riley said the city would be remembered for how it responded to the…
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Quick Takes
Fire and EMS news for Tuesday.
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LODD of Chicago Firefighter Christopher Wheatley
LODD Chicago Firefighter Christopher Wheatley. It is with great condolences that I share this information recently posted at FirefighterCloseCalls.com. FF Wheatley came on the CFD in 2000 as a paramedic and became a firefighter in 2008. Wheatley is the first firefighter to die in the line of duty since 2008.
Read More »Greenwood County Fatalities; Why?!
A SConFire Editorial. Close your eyes and imagine… you go to bed with your wife and family feeling safe and secure; thinking about what tomorrow will bring.
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Why they call it the Windy City: Check out this 1995 video of rigs threatened by warehouse fire.
Close call for fire trucks in dramatic video from fifteen-years-ago in Chicago.
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Arson Suspected in Warehouse Fire
SPARTANBURG - Three Fire Departments battled a commercial building fire late Wednesday night. Palmetto Stones LLC, a granite warehouse, was gutted in parted of the structure as well as part of the roof being collapsed. Officials said Thursday morning t…
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Early video as Chicago firefighters find heavy fire conditions at vacant apartment building
This apartment building in the Austin neighborhood on Chicago's West Side was vacant and under renovation when the fire broke out Monday morning. The fire was reported around 10:00 AM at West Iowa Street and North Leclaire Avenue. News reports in…
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