Posts Tagged: Arson
Compton, CA Deputy Chief Marcel Melanson, who starred in reality series, jailed for arson. Police say fire covered up theft of city radio equipment.
Melanson fired in connection with arrest.
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Cugees Restaurant Roof Collapse-1981 LAFD
Recalling the Cugees Fire and Collapse of 1981
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Best of the Rest – Never Ask The Dead, Accomack Arson Spree, Paramedic David Lee Roth, Eagle Scout Project, and much more!
Best of the Rest - Never Ask The Dead, Accomack Arson Spree, Paramedic David Lee Roth, Eagle Scout Project, and much more!
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Carolina Forest fire has caused ‘significant loss,’ but is contained
MYRTLE BEACH - A large fire in Carolina Forest is causing plumes of black smoke to billow into the sky this evening. Traffic in the area has backed up with drivers both trying to leave the area and slowing to watch the smoke.
The State Forestry Commiss…
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Bend, Oregon, Hit With Seven Arsons in Small Area
All within a 4-block area.
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UPDATED: Suspicious fire in Prince George’s County, MD leaves two dead. One jumped to death. Other dead in apartment.
Firefighters arrived to fire showing from top floor unit of four story garden-apartment.
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Raw video: House burns again in Decatur, IL.
Same home in 1800 block of N. Maple burned a little less than a month ago.
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Detroit Working (almost):‘Batman 300′ on Patrol
“The Batman 300 don’t be playin’ man.”
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Veterans Day 2012
"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them." -John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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Early video & fireground audio: Abandoned house in Meriden, CT.
Fourth vacant home fire in area in as many months.
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UPDATED – Fireground audio: Four firefighters hurt when dwelling explodes. Same neighborhood where six homes burned two nights ago.
Firefighters received burns and cuts.
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Burning them six at a time in Detroit. Three separate boxes operating in three block area.
More than 30 suspicious structure and vehicle fires in the last day.
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3 Pittsburgh FF’s Burned From Flashover at Arson Incident
A PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA, HOUSE WAS heavily damaged Monday morning when a "mentally disturbed" resident of a group home next door set it alight.
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Former firefighter hailed as hero, does TV interview, then arrested hours later charged with arson. Jacob Rumley was maintenance man at Madison, NC apartment complex.
Rumley says hhe knocked on every door at burning apartment building. Claims his training kicked in.
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The calls you just can’t “shake”
They were babies .... just babies. So small that Scott carried (ran) them both out to the ambulance at the same time. The 3-year-old Jaide and 2-year-old Marcasite, were later pronounced dead due to smoke inhalation.
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Raw video: Firefighters respond to North Sacramento home three times in 24 hours.
Multiple fires this week at home in Del Paso Heights.
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Considerate Arsonist Warns Neighbors to Get Out
STEPHANIE KRAUSER, 52, OF NORWOOD, Ohio, warned her neighbor in the over/under duplex that she lives lived in that they should leave their home because she was setting the place on fire.
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Raw video: Vacant apartment building is one of two overnight fires in Rochester, New York.
Fires on opposite sides of the city seven minutes apart.
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Firebomb Suspect Commits Suicide in Jail
The State
RICHLAND COUNTY -- A 25-year-old inmate of the Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center committed suicide Friday, Richland County Coroner Gary Watts said Saturday. Joshua L. Sullivan was in a cell by himself at the time of his death, Watts…
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Early video: Vacant house in Centralia, Illinois.
Home had burned two or three times before Sunday's fire.
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UPDATED – On day with 16 fires in 6 hours Detroit’s mayor laying off 20% of firefighters. Audio from arson spree. More than a third of investigators to be cut.
Mayor Bing hoping federal grant and attrition will bring back many firefighters.
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Arson spree overnight in Detroit. 16 fires on east side. One firefighter hurt.
Firefighter suffered minor head injury at a church fire.
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Lessons in handling the bad news: Efforts to keep fire at firefighter’s home from reporters ends careers of chief & assistant chief.
Fire last year brought retirement of two top officials after an investigation.
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The hose tower is on fire: In Highland Park, MI old FD headquarters burning doesn’t even scratch the surface of the fire problem.
Four fires on Sunday is not really a busy day for the Highland Park FD.
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Early Morning Fire Ruled Arson
WLTX.com
HOPKINS -- Columbia firefighters now say an early morning fire at a home in Hopkins is now considered an arson. Fire crews say the case has now been handed over to the Richland County Sheriff's Department for further investigation. Accordin…
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