Imagine having a golf outing so bad it brings out 150 firefighters and a chopper crew to see it for themselves. That’s what happened in Irvine, California on Saturday afternoon. It appears a golfer sparked a 12-acre brush fire at the Shady Canyon Golf Course in Irvine.
The golfer wasn’t a smoker. It appears his swing was the problem. He got into a little rough off the fairway. With his next swing the man struck a rock which apparently caused a spark.
I will leave you with the words of one wise, veteran West Coast fire chief who tweeted the following: “Shudda used a wood”.
One thing we never want to do at STATter911.com is take the work of others without their permission. Our post this morning showing guys with guns putting out fires did just that. We embedded video from the YouTube account UpsetAboutSafety. Larry Steiner of BainbridgeGa.com informed me today that the videos are his property and he did not give permission to others to upload the clips to YouTube. YouTube has already removed the videos. Larry was kind enough to send us links to his original works and a few from his corner of Georgia that we didn’t use earlier.
The video above is from a fire Sunday night in Bainbridge. According to the article with the video, Bainbridge Public Safety Officers and Georgia State Patrol were in the area for another call and all responded:
As Public Safety Officers donned their fire fighting gear, Cpl Duke, Trooper Walt Landrum and Trooper Brian Palmer pulled hoses off the fire engine. Troopers Duke and Palmer hit the fire in the front of the house and then Trooper Landrum hit the fire that had spread into the rear carport area.
The video above is from a house fire handled by Bainbridge Public Safety on April 7. Click here for more details.
There are other places in Larry’s coverage area where apparently cops are cops and firefighters are firefighters. Law enforcement was on the scene first of this July 9 fire (above) but it left it to the firefighters from Decatur County Fire and Rescue, Black Jack and Climax. Details are here.
And there are times that it doesn’t matter who is on the nozzle because there is no hose or fire engine. Larry shot the clip above on July 21. Here’s more.
Early video from Alberta, Canada: This was shot in Three Hills. The description indicates it is one of two suspicious fires being investigated by the RCMP.
Fire on the 27th floor with a mayday: We have fireground audio from the fire that began last night in the historic 36-story JP Morgan Chase Building in Downtown Houston. The firefighters had to deal with standpipe issues. At least five firefighters received non-life threatening injuries. Click here for our coverage.
Arresting the flames: A trio of videos showing uniformed police officers handling fire duties. Check it out.
Loudoun County, Virginia company hit with resignation of chief and four others: Leesburg Today reports the sudden departure of the chief and others from the Middleburg VFD may be connected to an investigation by the Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office. The paper says no details are being provided explaining what this is all about. Whatever the reason the actions have an impact on staffing. Here’s the story.
It depends which way you look at it: A very interesting article that shows the San Diego Fire Department spends more per firefighter ($210,600) than any of the top 15 cities in the country. But at the same time the survey indicates San Diego actually spends less per resident on fire protection than all but two of the departments. Click here for the story and the chart comparing the costs.
A picture by Werner Ennesser at Sunday's event in Arlington County, Virginia.
Lots of pictures from Iron & Steel event: Despite a somewhat controversial start, by all accounts the Iron & Steel Run to the National Capital Region was a wonderful event on Sunday. Click here for video as the group went through Prince George’s County and pictures of the ceremony as the World Trade Center steel was brought to Arlington County Fire Station 5.
Firefighters may soon be allowed to drive ambulances: It is a controversy WIS-TV brought to light in 2008. Now it looks as if Columbia, South Carolina firefighters will soon be considered first responders and be able to get behind the wheel of Richland County ambulances. Check out the update.
Firefighter accused of burglary at his own firehouse: Click here for the details of a break-in at the Pine River VFD in Lincoln County, Wisconsin. Thanks to surveillance video a now former 28-year-old volunteer and two 16-year-olds have been charged.
Know your neighbors: Firegeezer has the story of the meth lab that took out an apartment building in Des Moines over the weekend.
Dispatcher credited with save: A look at the work of a dispatcher who helped guide people to safety during a weekend apartment fire in Austin, Texas. Click here.
A YouTube account with the name UpsetAboutSafety posted three videos yesterday where law enforcement officers are manning the hosesand ladders. The one above (reported to be from Georgia) and below (no location or date given) are new to STATter911.com.
Much of the Houston Fire Department spent Monday night on the scene of a 4-alarm fire at the JPMorgan Chase Bank building (formerly the Gulf Building). The location is the 700 block of Main street at Capitol Street in downtown. The fire was reported around 8:00 PM Houston time.
The fire was on the 27th floor. This is now reported to be the older, smaller tower and not the 75-story newer structure that is the tallest building in Texas.
You will hear a couple of crews calling for water starting around 6:20 on this clip. The mayday is reported around 7:00.
Updates: At 9:40 PM, six additional pumpers were dispatched to the scene.
At 10:14 PM, seven additional pumpers and two ladder trucks were requested. News reports indicate the fire is under control.
The fire is confined to the 27th floor of the historic building. Firefighters said it’s primarily offices up there.
Reports of people trapped in an elevator was a false alarm, (Acting Chief Rick) Flanagan said.
At first, there was a problem with the building’s internal water supply – apparently a broken pipe – that HFD is solving by piping water directly into the building.
Five firefighters were taken to the hospital for smoke inhalation, said assistant chief Jack Williams. Their conditions are not considered life-threatening.
Earlier from KRIV-TV:
An official at the scene reported smoke was billowing from the 27th floor of the building.
A mayday call was sent out after several firefighters got lost in the building, but they all made it out ok.
The JP Morgan Chase Building has been a Houston landmark since the 1920s. It stands 430 feet high and cost and estimated $6 million to build. It was the tallest building west of the Mississippi River until the 1931, when a taller building in Kansas City was erected.
Yesterday, hundreds of firefighters, politicians and others gathered around a steel beam at Arlington County (VA) Fire Department Station 5. It came from the rubble of the World Trade Center. It arrived in Arlington on Saturday as part of the Iron and Steel Run put on by the FDNY Fire Family Transport Foundation. The beam was escorted on its trip from Brooklyn by hundreds of motorcyclists.
Click the image for more pictures from ARLnow.com.
“This morning we gather to recognize the bond between Arlington, New York and Shanskville [Pa.],” said Arlington County Fire Chief James Schwartz.
Dozens of New York City and Arlington County firefighters were on hand for the ceremony. Music was provided by a large bagpipe corps and a youth choir from Georgia.
The steel beam — one end twisted and torn with remnants of concrete still attached — was from the North Tower of the World Trade Center, according to Paddy Concannon, president of the FDNY Fire Family Transport Foundation, which arranged the donation.
Following the beam’s unveiling, firefighters took turns reading the names of those who died in the 9/11 attack on the Pentagon.
Thanks: Thanks for your patience. I am finally back home after 23 days on the road on vacation and doing some work at FRI in Chicago for the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation. STATter911.com will be returning to normal. But whether that is a good thing or a bad thing all depends on your definition of normal. For those who sent in tips that I missed during the road trip, I am sorry I couldn’t get to them. Please keep them coming. If I haven’t replied to an email you sent me this month, please try again. It just means I overlooked it as I tried to squeeze the work related stuff into the vacation. It was great seeing so many friendly faces at FRI.
Very sad news: SConFire.com tells us of the heart attack death of Deputy Fire Chief Jeff Thompson, of Pine Ridge (SC) Fire District. Chief Thompson is the older brother of Charleston Firefighter Brandon Thompson who was one of nine firefighters killed in the Sofa Super Store Blaze in Charleston on June 18th, 2007.
Police chief blasts fire department for overtime spending: This is a new one for me. The police chief in Zanesville, Ohio says his department has been cutting OT at the same time the fire department is spending $1000 each day. Chief Eric Lambes did not seem to be a happy camper when he went public with his complaint. Check it out.
Join us in Dover: If you haven’t done so already get your tickets to join your fellow firefighters at the Monster Mile as Dover International Speedway once again supports the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation. The date of the race is Sunday, September 26. Click here to buy your tickets.
Smoke inhalation puts Atlantic City firefighter in the hospital: Following a rooming house fire on Saturday, Atlantic City Fire Department Firefighter Robert Gragg has been in ICU at AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center. Here’s the story.
“Perfect gentlemen” firefighters get into trouble leaving a bar: In Brockton, Massachusetts a bar owner describes the trio as “perfect gentlemen” when they were in his facility. Moments after they left the bar, two were bloodied and one was charged by police with brandishing a gun. Here’s more.
Firegeezer follows-up: Remember that spectacular video from Ohio of a teenager losing control of his car and surviving the crash as the vehicle disintegrates around him. There is more to the story and Bill has it here.
A recurring theme: In Benton Harbor, Washington there is a shortage of volunteer firefighters. Read and watch the story.
Late firefighter’s fortune never made it where it was supposed to go: In Nashville, Tennessee a judge wants to know why almost $1 million left by Firefighter Raymond Simmons to the Tennessee Children’s Home never got there. Here are the details.
Fire in Snyder, New York: Don Murtha caught this fire late yesterday afternoon on Devon Lane.
A fire station caught on fire in Junction City Tuesday night. The Alvadore Fire Station lost one fire engine to flame damage, which could cost up to $250,000, according to the Fire Chief of Lane County Fire District 1.
Click the image for KEZI-TV coverage of the fire.
According to Terry Ney, the Fire Chief of Lane County Fire District 1, there are two possible causes.
The first possible cause could be the result of a wheat field fire fire fighters battled in the afternoon. Some wheat could have gotten stuck inside the engine and smoldered, eventually catching the engine on fire. The second possible cause could be a mechanical failure in the engine.
A crash on Friday destroyed a tanker from Indiana’s Ashley Fire Department. Two people on board received minor injuries. A police investigation questions the department’s training of drivers. The chief, in the interview above, says it was a mistake by the driver and shows a TV reporter how the incident occurred.
One burned in San Francisco apartment fire: A neighbor’s roof top video of a fire during the noon hour in Haight Ashbury on Monday that injured an occupant of a second-floor apartment.
The STATter911.com family heads to Chicago: I guess it is appropriate that the video above is from San Francisco because that is where our journey began on August 6. Currently Sam, Hillary and Dave are in Dubuque, Iowa, heading out today for four days at Fire Rescue International in Chicago. Along the way we saw some spectacular sights and had many wonderful moments. In the coming weeks I plan to share some fire related photos and videos that I gathered during our journey, like the one on the left when San Francisco Fire Engine Tours & Adventures took us on a tour of the city in a 1955 Mack pumper. Because of the travel, as we warned, the blog postings have been reduced. Thank you for your patience and understanding. I don’t expect to get back into my usual unreliable pattern of posting until next week.
One you should attend in Chicago: If you manage a behavioral health program for a fire department or are a chief officer, peer program manager or EAP professional make sure you get to “Focus Group on New Protocol for Firefighter Behavioral Health – Initiative 13″. Its on Friday from 12:30 to 2:30 in room N230a at McCormick Place. If you need more information contact Dr. JoEllen Kelly at jkelly@everyonegoeshome.com.
New fire chief in Houston: The Houston Chronicle and other new outlets are reporting Terry Garrison will be the new chief of the Houston Fire Department. Retired after a 30-year-career in Phoenix, Chief Garrison more recently has been doing the chief thing in Oceanside, California and the Daisy Mountain Fire District in New River, Arizona. Read more.
Triple fatal fire in the Charleston, SC area: Around 9:00 last night a mother and her young twin boys died in a fire in West Ashley, a Charleston suburb. The St. Andrews Fire Department and Charleston Fire Department responded. SConFire.com is on top of the story.
Honors for Tom Carr: As many of you already know from other sources while Dave was distracted by his intimate relationship with the GPS lady, our friend Tom Carr, chief of the Charleston Fire Department (mentioned above), has been named by Fire Chief as the 2010 Career Fire Chief of the Year. A much deserved honor for a man I first met when he was a lieutenant in Montgomery County, Maryland. While we are at it, congratulations to Timothy S. Wall of the North Farms Volunteer Fire Department in North Wallingford, Connecticut who is the 2010 Volunteer Fire Chief of the Year.
Iron and Steel doesn’t make it to Washington but will come close: This weekend steel from the World Trade Center will be escorted to the Pentagon. You may recall the dispute that surfaced in June after the organizers and the DC Fire & EMS Department did not come to terms for this event (click here). The Arlington County Fire Department, under the leadership of Chief Jim Schwartz, stepped in and will host the event. Click here for the weekend schedule.
A much better view of the CNG bus burning in Maryland: We have now posted almost seven minutes of continuous raw video from Friday’s Metrobus fire in Anne Arundel County. It begins just before the first engine pulls up. Despite offering a better representation of what was there when firefighters arrived, I am not sure it is going to change too many minds in our comments section. What could have been an interesting discussion over the use of master streams in this type of situation has turned into the type of Internet free-for-all that can cause brain damage ( if taken too seriously). I just want to apologize ahead of time in case you stumble upon it. Much more interesting is the updated video.
Chief fired over disposal of stillborn babies: We have reported on fire chiefs being fired for many, many reasons, but this is one we have never heard before. WBRC-TV is reporting that in Odenville, Alabama Chief David Davis claimed he was just following protocol when he flushed twin stillborn babies down the toilet. Mayor Buck Christian fired Davis and the Odenville City Council unanimously approved that decision.
But it’s the news media’s fault in Detroit: Thank goodness for the Geezerman. At least Firegeezer Bill doesn’t leave his readers high and dry while he goes gallivanting across the country. Clearly a man with a much better work ethic than I have, Bill Schumm has been posting some great stories at Firegeezer.com. The most disturbing one comes from Detroit. On August 9 I shared the story about Mayor Dave Bing’s administration’s issues with media ride-alongs and attempts to create a new policy. You may recall in the same posting I also disagreed with a documentary producer’s opinion that the news media is the problem in Detroit (at the same time supporting the producer’s efforts to show us the firefighters of Detroit). Well, the nasty news media is at it again. This time they have the nerve to tell people that 31 of 45 ambulances are broken. A TV station shows some people, like the recently injured Detroit firefighters, who didn’t get to the hospital by ambulance. Here’s Bill’s well written look at this tragedy.
There is much debate in our comments section about the use of master streams during the CNG fueled Metrobus fire in Anne Arundel County, Maryland on Friday morning. We originally posted a short YouTube clip and still pictures provided by Chief Drew Mutch of the Cape St. Claire Volunteer Fire Company. What I missed, that a reader pointed out in our comments section yesterday, is another much longer YouTube video. It begins just before the arrival of the first engine and continuously rolls for almost seven minutes.
Rather than a serious discussion on the merits of master streams when faced with this situation, the comments have devolved, as often is the case on the Internet, into name calling and a debate over who has the bigger nozzle. Because of that I don’t recommend you take the time to read the discussion. Depending on your own mental state, doing so could cause you to either do bodily harm to yourself or sue me for wasting your valuable time.
Unlike some of our comments on this subject, the video is quite interesting and seems to give a more complete picture of the conditions to help you choose sides in this issue.
DC Firefighters battled a blaze onboard a school bus Tuesday in Southeast DC.
Officials tell 9NEWS NOW the school bus caught fire in the 2700 block of Langston Place just before 8:00 a.m. According Pete Piringer, spokesperson for DC Fire and EMS, the mid-sized school bus was engulfed in flames when firefighters arrived on the scene.
Piringer says the driver, an aide, and several children made it off the bus safely before firefighters arrived. No one was injured.
Firefighters were able to extinguish the flames within 10 minutes, however, the bus was destroyed.
This is a fire on Sunday at 400 E. 29th Avenue in Lake Station, Indiana. In the middle of this you will see one pooch very happy the nice firefighters opened the door.
Edward Malik, who shot this video, writes in his description:
… on arrival Ambulance 1 advised the homeowner was spraying a garden hose through the window. Car 2 arrived and immediately started searches when advised multiple pets were still inside.
The National Fallen Firefighters Foundation’s Memorial Weekend is October 2 & 3 this year. Recently NFFF Executive Director Ron Siarnicki took a few moments to talk about this year’s ceremony and how you can help honor the 105 firefighters whose names will be added to the National Fallen Firefighters Memorial in Emmitsburg, Maryland. (Full Disclosure: For those who aren’t aware, I now do work on media matters for the Foundation.)
Below are links to some of the things Chief Siarnicki mentions, plus a few other NFFF reminders:
Do you have the 2010 National Fallen Firefighters Memorial Weekend Tribute Widget on your website?
Honor the firefighters being remembered at this year’s Memorial Weekend by placing this special tribute on your website. Each day we will feature one of the 80 firefighters who died in the line of duty in 2009 along with 25 who died in previous years. Firefighter Close Calls is one of the more than 100 websites and blogs carrying the widget so far. We challenge all firefighters to make sure your department has the widget added to its homepage. Get the code:http://weekend.firehero.org/widget/
A Memorial Weekend Tradition Now Online: Sign the Remembrance Banner
The Remembrance Banner is a Memorial Weekend tradition that allows family members to write messages to their fallen firefighters. Now everyone can pay tribute to a firefighter we have lost with this online Remembrance Banner. Write your thoughts about a relative, friend or colleague who has been honored at Emmitsburg. Also, if you’ve attended or volunteered at a previous Memorial Weekend, share a special memory with us or pay tribute to a fallen hero. The Virtual Remembrance Banner:http://weekend.firehero.org/remembrance/banner.php
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On Sunday one of our readers alerted us to a tragic series of events in Ontario. Firefighters from Napanee, a town of 16,000, were involved in two separate crashes over the weekened that left 13 people injured and killed the wife of a firefighter. It started on Saturday when five firefighters were returning from the FireFit Championships when their vehicle was involved in a collision near Woodstock.
Concerned family members, along with Napanee Mayor Gordon Schermerhorn and Napanee fire chief Ian Shetler, chartered a bus to bring the firefighters home. Town councillor Bill Pierson joined Shetler on the trip while the mayor stayed behind.
The bus travelled to London to pick up the four firefighters who were released from hospital. The fifth, Kevin Duncan, with his wife now beside him, remained in hospital overnight with a neck injury and was unable to return with the group. The rest, which included Pierson, Shetler and firefighters David Goodfellow, Daniel Matthieu, Al Hatton and Joe Reid, hopped on the bus early Sunday morning ready for the five hour trip home.
About an hour later, the bus crashed into the guardrail on Highway 401 near Woodstock, jumped over it, and landed on its side on the grass around 6 a.m.
Darlene Goodfellow of Napanee was pronounced dead at the scene. Her husband, David, is a volunteer fireman with the Napanee Fire Department and suffered minor injuries. The couple have three children aged 13-19.
“She’s a woman that everybody would like the first time they met her,” Schermerhorn said.
The 12 others on the bus do not have life-threatening injuries, provincial police said.
“I’m not sure how we’re going to get them home, maybe by train, I don’t know,” Schermerhorn said.
When the alarm sounded and fire Chief Erik Pettaway arrived at 31 Norfolk Ave., he knew the fire was big. He also knew the building. The neighborhood native recently did a pre-plan of the complex, which takes up a block.
He gave the order for firefighters to back up and stay out of the building. Pettaway called out nine alarms, the maximum response in Boston, and units throughout the city and region rushed to the scene.
Minutes later, a section of a building collapsed near where fire trucks and firefighters would have been standing had the chief not given the order to back off.
“Chief Pettaway made the decision to pull the trucks back, and after the trucks were pulled back it collapsed. He probably saved a lot of injuries to firefighters, and that’s how well-trained these firefighters are,’’ said Mayor Thomas M. Menino, at the scene. “They made some real good calls early in the evening.’’
“What I tried to do was establish a collapse zone,’’ Pettaway said at the scene. “My concern is no one gets hurt. I wanted to make sure my men are OK.’’
Maybe it’s my background as a reporter that makes me sensitive to this issue, but I can’t understand why someone goes to the trouble of sharing with the world via YouTube video of a neighbor’s house burning or some other event and doesn’t bother to tell anyone where it occurred. Often you will see something like, “There was a fire on my block overnight” without the person even posting what state they live in, much less the street, county or city. This video is another one of those generic house fires that I have to try and figure out. That’s what I did this morning while my family slept in our hotel room in Hot Springs, South Dakota.
The main clue on this one is the W.F.F.D. on the two pumpers, Engine 1 and Engine 3. Was it the Wake Forest Fire Department? How about the West Frankfort Fire Department? What about the Westview-Fairforest department? Could it be the Wappingers Falls Fire Department? It was none of the above.
A check of the websites and a look at apparatus photos brought me to the conclusion that this was from Texas and the Wichita Falls Fire Department. After that I found an article at timesrecordnews.com with details on this fire. It occurred last Monday morning and left a resident burned. Neighbors reported hearing an explosion.
I guess I really do like the challenge of tracking these down. Thanks for listening. I feel better now.
Pictures on this page courtesy Chief Drew Mutch, Cape St. Claire Volunteer Fire Company
Details on Davidsonville, Maryland bus fire from WUSA9.com:
Members of the Anne Arundel County Fire Department were called to the commuter parking lot at routes 50 and 424, Friday morning, for a report of a bus on fire.
Division Chief Michael Cox told 9News Now when firefighters arrived they found a compressed natural gas DC Metrobus fully engulfed in flames.
Cox said the bus was driven by a mechanic. A spokesperson for the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority said the bus was not in service and test were being conducted at the time of the incident.
There were no firefighter or civilian injuries but Cox said the fire caused damage to about 12-14 other vehicles that were parked in the immediate area.
The cause of the fire remains under investigation.
Both the TV station where I used to work and The Washington Post covered a story yesterday that has a lot of meaning to me. It is about a special scholarship for a young man I met in during an enormous tragedy in his life. It was in 1997 when he was just eight-years-old. Brian Carter is the son of John Michael Carter, a newly appointed sergeant with the DC Fire & EMS Department who died in the basement of a burning grovery store at 400 Kennedy Street, Northwest.
The TV report runs an excerpt from a story I have often cited as one of the most memorable of my career. The reason is Brian’s mom, now Debbie Carter Ketchum. Going through my friend Kenny Cox at IAFF Local 36, Debbie contacted me two days after the fire wanting to tell the story of her husband. And did she tell it. As I have said many times, we should all be so lucky to have someone speak so elequently about us after we are gone. Here is more on the scholarship from WUSA9.com:
Twenty-year-old Brian Carter is the recipient of The Vantagepoint Public Employee Memorial Scholarship, a fund dedicated to family members of public servants fallen in the line of duty.
Carter will be a junior this fall at Salisbury University. His father, John Carter, a DC firefighter died fighting a 3-alarm grocery store blaze in Northwest DC on October 24, 1997. Carter fell through a weakened floor.
“[The scholarship] keeps the memory alive. He’s not here, but he’s still helping out and providing,” Carter says.
Carter says he usually does not like the spotlight, but he had to come to the District Fire Station to show his appreciation.
His mother, Debra Carter Ketchum, is all smiles as she sees her son as one of 23 recipients nationwide of this scholarship this year.
“I’m just so proud of him,” she says. She had told Channel 9 two days after the fire, how she had to break the news to her then 8-year-old son, that dad “had gotten into a terrible accident.”
Carter says even though he’s a finance major, he entertains the idea of working in the fire department. His grandfather and uncle are also firefighters.
This is Part 1 of 5 clips posted to YouTube yesterday by AllHandsGoingToWork of Monday night’s fire at 649 Communipaw Avenue in Jersey City, New Jersey. Five firefighters were treated and released for injuries and heat exhaustion. Click here for the rest of the video. Click here for more details.
The decision for Dwayne Frost to leave the Capitol Heights Volunteer Fire Department after September 11 changed his life but not his will to persevere. He chose to defend our country in Iraq in the 82nd Airborne Division.
Frost was injured during the war in July 2003, “by a high-ranking member Baath Party Iraqi Regime with a jeep cherokee with a 5 ton.”
After many operations and treatments, his right leg below the knee could not be salvaged.
“I don’t look at my leg as a disability, I see it as a mishap I’m overcoming,” Frost said.
Frost wanted to rejoin the fire department, the place that allowed him to live his dream and provided an opportunity to continue serving. He was cleared to work exterior fires and operate full EMS services, only after proving he could climb ladders, low crawl and even jump into his protective gear within 30 seconds.
“Let me know when you are ready,” Frost said as he demonstrated a speed drill with his 25-year-old son Dwayne Frost Jr.
“He has that never-say-never attitude,” Frost, Jr. said.
“Everything that I was told that I couldn’t do, I have actually proved them wrong that I can do,” explained Frost.
Frost is currently serving as the Vice President of the Capitol Heights Fire Department.
A fire Monday evening in Rockland County, New York. One police officer was treated for exhaustion while evacuating the building at the Blueberry Hills apartments in Monsey. According to LoHud.com, “Rockland Deputy Fire Coordinator John Kryger said that a lack of nearby fire hydrants prevented officials from effectively fighting the fire early on.” Click here to read more about the fire.
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