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This was uploaded to YouTube today (Sunday) by george cribbs and is quite interesting. It is a two-alarm fire at 914 Kensington Avennue in Buffalo, New York from April 26, 1998. It begins with sirens and airhorns sounding, a lot of fire on the second floor and firefighters escaping via a ladder to the window of the one room on the second floor that isn’t burning.
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BFD is an aggressive, hard working FD that sees lots of fire among wood frame structures. You won’t see their guys leaning on hooks in front waiting for a fire to go defensive. Glad the brothers made it out to safety. Ut Vivant Alii” — “So Others May Live”
But one might suggest that interior isn’t always the best place to be!! It looks like cool heads were used to order the evacuation…just in time!! Glad all were safe…buildings can be rebuilt.
Dramatic video that also vividly demonstrates how the firefight can be affected when firefighters get injured.
Buffalo burns as much now, as they ever did. They are a smart, hard core group of fireman that see a ton of work. They make alot or grabs a year, and are plagued with vacants that house alot of squatters. In 2008 their previous Fire Commissioner wrote a great article called “Training and Discipline for a safer fire service”. In the article he mentions the city had over 15,000 vacant structures. If you compare Buffalo to any city of similar size, you will see Buffalo goes to way more fires. In 2007 the BFD handled around 1,500 “All Hands Fires”. In the same year, Pittsburgh (similar population) handled around 600 fires.