Allentown, PA second-alarm: This is from 10:30 last night at 614 Walnut Street. NewsWorking.org shot the video and has the details.
‘You’ve got to get out of your truck and you got to go there’: No, this isn’t a comment about the DeKalb County, Georgia house fire that cost firefighters their jobs. This is the public safety director talking about Pittsburgh EMS. A pretty unbelievable story where an EMS crew wanted the patient, a man who died following 10 unsuccessful calls to 911 over three days, to walk to them during a snow storm. City officials believe Curtis Mitchell would still be alive if things had been done properly. Here’s the story.
Two-alarm school fire in Fairfax County: A fire Tuesday morning destroyed a pre-school attached to the Highview Christian Fellowship Church in West Annandale. Twenty children along with teachers escaped the fire. Two of the staff suffered minor smoke inhalation. We have the fireground audio from FireSceneAudio.com. Click here for a slideshow and here for my story.
Fatal fire in DC: Click here for details of a duplex fire on East Capitol Street at 5:30 this morning. Click here for an interview with Deputy Chief Kenneth Crosswhite.
PGFD animal rescue: Prince George’s County Fire/EMS Department video and pictures from a rescue operation in a storm drain that brought a dog to safety. Click here.
Must see mayday video: This is a follow-up to a story we brought you at the end of January of a firefighter bailing out of a second floor window during the search for an elderly woman at a Randolph, New Jersey house fire. Helmet-cam video of the firefighter’s escape is now posted. Check it out.
Going out in style: A UK firefighter on the final day of his 25-year career rescues a woman from her burning bedroom. Read the story.
The fireground audio that goes with the picture of the day: If you have seen the picture of the infant being dangled from a window of a Bronx apartment building, you will want to listen to the radio traffic that goes with it. Click here.
‘We cannot continue to pay them at the rate we are paying them’: The words of Clark County, Nevada Commissioner Steve Sisolak who says firefighters make too much. He says on average benefits and salary equal $180,000. Click here for the story.
Boston lieutenant in road rage has past: We first told you yesterday about what police believe was an alcohol fueled road rage incident involving off-duty Boston Fire Department Lt. Paul Souza. Boston.com reports this isn’t a first for Souza.
Riding with Engine 16: Reporter Surae Chinn gets a close-up view as DC firefighters try to navigate the snow clogged streets of the Nation’s Capital. Here’s the story.
Also on STATter911 …
- Raw video: Five-alarms for Boston apartment fire. Resident jumps on & injures lieutenant. – October 27, 2012
- Mayday radio traffic: Three-alarm fire in Boston with two maydays. Six firefighters hurt. One resident dead. – April 28, 2013
- UPDATE: Fireground audio added. Two Philadelphia firefighters killed at 5-alarm fire this morning. Three others hurt. Crew trapped in collapse at exposure building. – April 9, 2012
- UPDATE – Must see: Mayday bailout video, pictures & audio from house fire in St. Mary’s County, MD. Two firefighters hurt. – November 26, 2012
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Allentown, PA second-alarm:
What was the deal with this fire? I would really like to hear what the reason was for not doing an interior attack before the fire took the entire roof.
There’s some nice footage of a 1.75″ hand line with a clogged fog tip being used as a defensive stream. truly painful to watch this department’s inaction. Yet another fire that would have had the same outcome if these bystanders dressed as firefighters had stayed in bed and not shown up …
Anyone know why the tower ladder was not used?
Allentown sure spent a lot of money on that Aerialcat observation platform!! Good grief!!
If they had done their job properly, the tower ladder would have been used as a platform for roof ventilation … make a hole over the fire and advance an attack line from below … extinguish the fire …
Ya musint beah skeered!
Looks like a malfunction in with the aerial. Hence the squirt that was brought in. I highly doubt the A-town guys would stand by and let the place burn. Mechanical shit happens. The exterior lines were in proper placement for exposure protection.
The exterior streams were completely ineffective. The broken fog streams barely reached the venting fire with a fine mist and provided no “exposure protection”. The best method of exposure protection at this fire would have been to promptly extinguish the fire. I have trouble believing that any experienced interior structural firefighter would defend what is depicted in the video which namely is: the failure of this department to take the necessary action which would have resulted in a rapid knockdown of an attic fire in a relatively small two story private dwelling.
I can see your point. Made me wonder why interior was pulled. (They were operating inside according to other reports and bailed out) Another thing that came to mind was if their waterway was also broke, since the squirt waterway was put in service on the fire almost immediately, but at that point it was too late. Sounds to me, from these comments that A-town has issues at some fires…?
700Chief says, “Sounds to me, from these comments that A-town has issues at some fires…?”
I hope that it’s an isolated incident, but it’s very discouraging to see such a shoddy operation …