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Part 1 of Denwood Avenue audio from Alertpage Inc. (mayday around 6:00)
Part 2 of Denwood Avenue audio from Alertpage Inc.
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Three Baltimore City firefighters were injured as maydays were called in two different house fires about an hour apart overnight. One of those fires left an adult and four children dead.
Above is audio from radioreference.com via firefighterdispatch of first fire on Bonsal Street. Mayday is at about 5:25.
In the first fire around 1:00 AM, a lieutenant is in serious condition with second and third degree burns to the hands, face and neck and a firefighter has third degree burns to the hand and is in stable condition. Both are at Johns Hopkins Bayview Burn Center. The fire occurred in the 1400 block of Bonsal Street.
The deadly fire was around 2:00 AM in the 5600 block of Denwood Avenue in northeast Baltimore.
An adult and four children are dead in a ravaging two-alarm house fire in northeast Baltimore that also injured two people, including a firefighter, fire officials said.
“A total of 10 people were in home, and five escaped before we arrived,” Baltimore City Fire Chief James Clack said.
Firefighters said they heard people screaming for help and encountered heavy flames and smoke emanating from the first floor up through the second floor.
One firefighter was hurt when he fell through the second story floor all the way to the basement. He was found immediately and pulled from the house. Medics rushed him to Bayview where he’s expected to be okay.
Fire investigators are now on the scene trying to figure out what caused the fire, but they believe it started in the basement of the home. It’s not clear if the smoke alarms in the home were working when the fire started.
Click here for more WMAR-TV pictures from Denwood Avenue this morning.
Also on STATter911 …
- Mayday audio: From Baltimore County, MD fire that critically injured Reisterstown VFC Firefighter Gene Kirchner. – April 24, 2013
- Mayday audio: Firefighter trapped after collapse at three-alarm Scituate, MA house fire. Marshfield Lt. Joseph Kilinowski seriously injured. – November 6, 2012
- Mayday audio & video: Mother & child believed dead at Lancaster, PA house fire. Two firefighters hurt trying to make rescue. Lt. Andre Kelley, critical but stable at burn unit. – February 18, 2013
- Radio traffic & video added: Baltimore City 4th alarm with collapse and mayday. Five firefighters injured. – February 4, 2013
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Prayers out to the families and the injuried brothers.. K
Why is dispatch involved in communications on a Mayday? She toned out the Mayday and walked on the downed FF’s transmission!! A very urgent transmission at that. Is this a Maryland/DC thing. The initial transmission should go direct to the OIC, followed by the Companies on scene switching to a TAC channel & leaving the Mayday Ops(downed FF’s & RIC) on the Fireground channel. At least that how we do it in our City. Way to much talk going on in an urgent situation.