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.
Plea deal in Berkeley County, West Virginia firefighter arson: You may recall the April 2009 barn fire that left a firefighter seriously injured. Former volunteer James Blackford has entered a plea that could give him up to 20-years in prison. Here’s the latest.
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.
Also on STATter911 …
- Career-volunteer battle in Loudoun County, Virginia. Staffing pulled from Middleburg VFD after ‘heated’ words. – July 21, 2011
- NEW INFO: Resignations from Hamilton, Virginia firefighter charged with DUI & others. Five volunteers said to be on a joyride after night of drinking. 19-year-old on the rig along with a cop. – March 6, 2011
- Must see video: Fireball erupts as firefighters attempt to extinguish burning RV in South San Diego. – April 6, 2012
- Quick Takes: December 5, 2011. – December 5, 2011
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Yard breathers………
Wow, breathing air while jumping off the rig and flaking the line.
How about going in and putting the fire out? Pitiful!
Careful now boys… we wouldn’t want to do anything silly, like get water on the fire.
YEA… YARD BREATHERS IS RIGHT!!! I JUST LEFT A 2500 DOLLAR MOBILE HOME FIRE LIKE THIS TWO HOURS AGO. 800,000.00$ OF EMERGENCY VECHICLES AND 16 FIREFIGHTERS TO EXTINGUISH A 2500.00 SINGLE WIDE WITH NO LIFE HAZARD PRESENT. YEA… CONDITIONS ALLOWED US A FAIRLY SAFE INTERIOR ATTACK… BUT WE WOULD NOT HESITATE TO MAKE THIS PUPPY A YARD BREATHING EXERCISE EITHER.
RISK VS GAIN
AND THE BEAT GOES ON!!!
Not worth going in. Mobile home fires arent worth the risk if no life danger is present. It’s like getting in the trunk to extinguish a car fire, not gonna save the car.
I just don’t understand the concept of jumping off the truck on air.
It may have something to do with seeing a fellow FF almost fried because he did this and didn’t see the live house feed that had burnt off the house, meaning he didn’t perform his own sizeup when arriving at the scene.
I never did it before that and after seeing it, will never, ever do it and will tell everyone I come in contact with how STUPID it is. Not to mention a waste of air.
As for going interior, looks like the entire trailer park is abandoned, so I can understand not being too aggressive-assuming they know for a fact no one is inside–but they could have actually got with 50 ft of the fire to extinguish it in a timely manner.
Forgot to mention, in regards to NJ FF, tell that to the people who could have had some of their possessions salvaged if they had gone interior.
And to make a blanket statement that all trailer fires are too dangerous to go interior, you haven’t seen many then, because that is flat out false.
AFD
@seasoned vet– be careful to condemn. Firstly it looks like a small rural department with limited manpower not nearly enough to attempt an internal attack. Secondly why risk lives with an internal attack when the outcome will be the same? I would say this was a good use of common sense, something that is in short supply at times. RISK vs.GAIN make the assement, go home safe
TO Dave Gordon, NJ FF, and Tommy:
Firefighters are supposed to protect life AND property. The trailer may look vacant but in these hard economic times people are surviving/sleeping anyway and anywhere they can. NO PLACE SHOULD BE DEEMED VACANT UNTIL A PRIMARY SEARCH CAN BE DONE. Dave, there was enough manpower on the scene to do an interior attack on the trailer and search while you are advancing the line. It was a pitiful display of firefighting.
My opinion is the entire operation was embarrassing and indefensible. Period.