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One firefighter was injured battling this four-alarm fire in Edina, Minnesota on Tuesday evening. Watch at :35 in the video above as two firefighters come out from between the fire building and the exposure on Side B (image below). Note the bundle of hose the second firefighter is carrying over his shoulder is burning a bit when he drops it on the ground.
The initial call came in at 11:22 p.m. on Tuesday, July 10, with reports of heavy smoke on the first floor of an apartment building in the 4100 block of Parklawn Avenue. The blaze eventually escalated to a four-alarm fire before crews were able to put it out, following more than an hour of grueling work.
Edina firefighters were joined by crews from Eden Prairie, Bloomington, Hopkins, Richfield and St. Louis Park, among others.
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- Raw video & fireground audio: Four-alarm fire in vacant Philadelphia factory. Firefighter seriously hurt. – July 10, 2012
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Does anyone here know how to charge a line???? Four minutes of firefighters sitting there on lines that are un-charged????? +Come on….
5:40 until the first water is flowing and that is from the start of the video. Obviously the FD had been on scene prior to that starting time judging from the FF’s running out of the building with the high rise pack. Time to go back and drill on water supply and stretching lines. Even an 1 3/4 may have prevented the exposure to the right from lighting off!
No Kidding!
Wish I could be a KNM (Keyboard Nozzle Man).
^^^ what he said!
Wish I could have understood what the bystanders were saying.
From what is heard around the table, crews were interior on the first floor prior to this and unaware that all 3 floors were involved.
What about a sense of urgency? I understand you don’t run but you can walk like you have a mission instead just lolly-gagging aimlessly. Why don’t some of the guys standing around pull another big line?
Remember the term R-E-C-E-O?
How about putting the water on the friggin” exposures!
WTF was this clown show…. nobody showed any sign of hurry…. took forever to run the line and charge it… you could just watch fire exposure fire spread… man this company needs to spend some time on the training ground…. Strike Da Box K
I can’t know everything that was going on at the fire scene, but it’s very frustrating watching the exposure on the right light off.