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This is a fire from April 30 in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Here’s more from OakRidger.com:
On Friday, a house at 412 East Drive caught fire about 5 p.m. (Oak Ridge Fire Department Chief Darryl) Kerley said the resident tried to put out the fire with a garden hose, which prompted a neighbor to call 911. He said the fire was caused by an electrical problem.
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Karen Brack from WCBD-TV.
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Charleston, South Carolina Mayor Joseph Riley has scheduled a news conference at 5:00 PM to announce his choice to replace Tom Carr as chief of the Charleston Fire Department. News reports have identified Riley’s pick as Karen Brack, Eugene Fire Department (OR) deputy chief of operations.
Charleston Mayor Joe Riley will announce the choice for the city’s next fire chief today at 5 p.m. in City Hall Chambers.
A source familiar with the search told The Post and Courier the pick is Karen E. Brack, deputy chief operations, Eugene Fire Department, Ore.
Sources close to the hiring process tell News 2 that Karen Brack has been selected as Charleston’s new fire chief. Karen E. Brack resume:
- Deputy Chief, Operations, Eugene Fire Department, OR, 2007 -Present
- 29 years of experience in the fire service including last 4+ years as Deputy Chief
- Battalion Chief, Fulton County Fire and Rescue, GA 1982 – 2007
- A.A.S., Paramedic and Fire Science
- BS, Biology/Psychology; Masters level coursework in Exercise Physiology
- Executive Fire Officer Program, National Fire Academy
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This is from the afternoon of Sunday, April 29 in the Brooklyn neighborhood known as DUMBO (Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass). Video taken by neighbor Chris Frank. Thanks to Vito Maggiolo for alerting us to the video.
Firefighters grappled with an outdoor blaze at a Con Edison substation in a trendy Brooklyn neighborhood Sunday, officials said.
An outdoor reactor – which transfers voltage – caught fire at the plant on John and Bridge Streets in DUMBO around 5:15 p.m., a Con Ed spokesman said.
Residents reported that they felt their buildings shake.
Con Ed spokesman Chris Olert denied there was an explosion, however. He said a fire broke out in a piece of reactor equipment in the station, located on 89 John Street.
An FDNY spokesman tells us the fire was brought under control at 6:39 p.m., mostly using foam. A Con Ed spokesman confirms there were no injuries, and no customers were affected with outages as a result of the fire, which broke out around 5:15 p.m. Witnesses reported hearing an explosion, which the spokesman attributed to the sound of oil igniting. The cause remains under investigation.
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It has taken at least five news articles over two weeks but finally someone is providing key information and asking important questions in connection with the comments about firefighters drinking made by a now former councilmember in the Borough of Hillsdale, New Jersey. Late yesterday two articles confirmed what many of us were reading between the lines, but couldn’t say for sure: the Hillsdale VFD has a bar (something the department says is not a secret); there is a policy for the bar’s use; the councilmember had a reason for making his remarks.
If you missed our story yesterday, Councilman Rod Capawana, who was also fire commissioner, resigned after making comments at a meeting last week during a report about the fire department that firefighters had been doing “a lot of training and a lot of drinking”. The leadership of the department and firefighters were outraged over Capawana’s remarks and had taken a no confidence vote against Capawana.
In a NorthJersey.com article by Pascack Valley Community Life’s Kimberly Redmond, we learn just how upset firefighters were. They showed up at Tuesday’s council meeting blasting Capawana. And they let other council members, including two firefighters and a firefighter’s wife, know how displeased they were that no one stood up to defend them. They also thought the report on the department should have included all of the work the firefighters had been doing.
Capawana was not at that meeting, but the same day had sent a letter to Chief Mark Durst explaining his May 1 comment:
He wrote, “While attending Fire Department meetings, I observed the consumption of alcoholic beverages. If an emergency call had come in during any of these times and something unforeseen occur, with alcohol being a factor, the liability to the town as well as any individual who knew drinking takes place at the Fire Department, would be considered gross negligence.”
The councilman wrote that he believes his statement was “honest and direct,” but admitted it was “perhaps insensitive to the feelings of the Fire Department.”
In a second NorthJersey.com article, this one by Chris Harris of The Record, the former councilman said his remarks were misunderstood and that he respects the firefighters as heroes who go into burning buildings. This is the article that finally mentions the bar and the drinking policy:
“[The firefighters] missed the point I was trying to make,” Capawana said, adding that there is a bar inside Hillsdale’s firehouse. “I raised the question of whether it is appropriate to drink at training sessions and regular meetings. I questioned that and I questioned the liability Hillsdale would face if firefighters responded to a call at that time.”
Deputy Chief Jason Durie said Wednesday that the fire department “does not allow drinking during training sessions or any public forum meetings.”
“It is used for special events and fundraisers and is kept locked at all times when not in use,” the statement read. “The Hillsdale Volunteer Fire Department remains committed to maintaining a professional working relationship with the mayor and council, including whoever is appointed to the newly vacated fire commissioner’s position.”
I think that it’s good the fire department made its policy clear. But after reading everything, I’m still left with the same thought I had yesterday. Is it really that outrageous the public or politicians are making firefighter booze comments when you have a bar inside the firehouse?
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This is Don Murtha III video from a fire around 11:30 last night near Woodlawn Avenue & Wohlers Avenue in Buffalo, New York.
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For the second time in less than a month we are telling you about a Florida firefighter who is under investigation for comments made on a personal Facebook page. In both cases the postings have offended members of the community.
The first incident involved Miami-Dade Capt. Brian Beckmann who was rather outspoken and labeled a racist by some for his comments about the Trayvon Martin case in mid-April (click here for initial story). A story on May 1 about a protest against Beckmann says the department is still contemplating whether to take any disciplinary action.
Now comes the story of Hialeah firefighter Eric Johnson who was interviewed by WSVN-TV and declared he is “absolutely not” a racist after some posts on his Facebook page attracted attention. Johnson told the reporter he is married to a Cuban and his best friend is African-American. Johnson is the vice-president of the Hialeah Association of Firefighters.
One of the posts in question is a photo of a man riding a scooter with a goat and the caption: “Only in Hialeah. LOL.” “Wasn’t that hilarious or what?” Johnson said when asked about the photo. “I don’t really necessarily see why people would be offended. It’s a picture. It’s in good humor. You have the option of coming on my page and looking at it or not.”
In another posting, Johnson wrote about how he communicates with the people of Hialeah. He says: “I have a system. Just add an ‘o’ to any English word and bam! It works. For example, how ya doin ‘o.’ You wanna go to the hospital ‘o.’ I just learned that you can’t do that when you say is this your home though. Ha Ha.”
Then there are Johnson’s postings about Medicare: “Ha Ha Ha… Jew forgot dat I hab da Medicare… Jew must talk me.”
Johnson also offered an explanation for that comment too. “This is a typical response we get in the city from a lot of people who have government benefits,” he said. “It’s almost like you owe them, you are there at their beck and call, at their service, and mind you, as a public servant, I am, I really am.”
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There is an interesting story from the Borough of Hillsdale, New Jersey (Bergen County) where around noon today freshman Councilman Joseph “Rod” Capawana, who was also the borough fire commissioner, resigned over a comment he made during a council meeting last week. His comment on May 1 about the drinking habits of firefighters from the Hillsdale Volunteer Fire Department angered members of the department.
From Kimberly Redmond at NorthJersey.com:
According to (Mayor Max) Arnowitz, during Capawana’s monthly fire department report, the councilman remarked, “They’re [firefighters] doing a lot of training and a lot of drinking” at the firehouse.”
Jerry Demarco’s article in the Cliffview Pilot last Wednesday had the same quote (recorded from the council TV broadcast) and talked to firefighters who made it clear that this was not over:
“Out of thousands or man hours we put in, that’s what they say about us?” one firefighter told CLIFFVIEW PILOT Wednesday morning.
“We depend on donations from the public,” he said, “and the public is being told by its fire commissioner [Capawana] that we’re drunks?”
I am dissapointed in both reporters, because while they talked to ranking officials of the department, they never told their readers anything about the Hillsdale VFD’s alcohol policy. Seems like an obvious question after the topic is brought up by the councilmember who is the liasison to the fire department. Also, wouldn’t the fire department want to make that crystal clear so there is no future misunderstanding?
In the coverage from both papers it does give the impression that alcohol is allowed. More from NorthJersey.com:
Arnowitz said he is unsure of what prompted Capawana, the council liaison to the fire department, to make the remark, but pointed out that the councilman’s comment was preceded by a discussion on a Joint Insurance Fund (JIF) training session on “civility, harassment and liability” for all borough personnel, including the mayor and council.
“When it came up, I said ‘Let’s have it in the Borough Hall instead of across the street [at the firehouse] where there’s alcohol’,” Arnowitz recalled.
Does that mean there’s alcohol for events in the social hall or is this a firehouse with a bar for its members?
The other question I have is if you allow alcohol at the firehouse, can you really be that upset about the impression or misimpression it leaves on political leaders and the public?
Is that a fair question or do I just not get it?
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The TV station is referring to this explosion at a house fire in Dayton, Ohio early this morning as both a backdraft and a flashover. I will let you decide.
A house exploded while crews were battling a fire on Campbell Street, throwing debris at firefighters on the porch.
“Fortunately, we’re trained to recognize things going on,” said Assistant Chief Jeffrey Payne, Dayton Fire Department. “We have some excellent fire gear that keeps us safe.”
No one was injured during the explosion or the fire, Payne said.
The fire started in the home’s basement, said Payne, but an actual cause of the fire has yet to be established.
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This is video from a fire Monday afternoon on Watercrest Drive in Stoney Creek, Ontario.
(Hamilton Fire Department spokesman Dave) Christopher said because the home is under construction it did not have all of the fire stops – things which would stop a blaze from progressing quickly through a house – that a home would regularly have.
The roof and flooring was unstable and because of this firefighters were not able to go into the home and had to battle the blaze from the outside.
The house — which is being constructed privately on the site and is not part of a larger development — was destroyed.
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The video above is a compilation of fires in Detroit from FirePhoto.CA that occurred last Friday. While watching it I found the second fire, starting at 1:16 on the clip interesting. The fire is at 3:00 AM in the 3300 block of E. Hancock Street in the first battalion. From what I can tell via the limited view of the camera and no outside information, it appears at some point the application of water on the fire ceases and you hear talk of letting it collapse.
I am not sure if this has anything to do with Commissioner Donald Austin’s budget cutting proposal last month of letting vacant structures, 50 percent or more involved, burn to the ground. Commissioner Austin also looked at the tactic as a form of urban renewal and an issue of firefighter safety.
In a previous post today, WJBK-TV reporter Charlie LeDuff chides Commissioner Austin about the idea of letting vacant structures burn.
This not meant as a commentary on Commissioner Austin’s policy or LeDuff’s position. Just an observation after seeing the video.
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FireTruckBlog.com story on man trying to donate 1983 tower ladder
WJBK-TV reporter Charlie LeDuff is back on the case of the Detroit Fire Department and says it is still in bad shape with little hope on the horizon.
At the same time, LeDuff is asking what ever happened to the big green fire truck? That’s the 1983 tower ladder that was donated to the City of Detroit by a Michigan man. The fire department sort of reluctantly accepted it back in September of last year. LeDuff discovered, despite a claim by Commissioner Donald Austin that it could be up and running in a month, the department had no intention of using it. The rig is sitting in the shop.
But LeDuff has found someone who wants that truck rather desperately. He is the mayor of nearby Highland Park whose department is in even worse shape than the Detroit Fire Department. We have been showing you videos recently of the understaffed and under equipped Highland Park Fire Department (here & here).
Here’s more from LeDuff’s story:
“I would ask the mayor of Detroit, Mayor Bing, to bring that fire truck here to Highland Park because we definitely need it,” says Mayor Deandre Windom. “Please, please, please, please, bring the fire truck here to Highland Park.”
The mayor says he called Detroit, but nobody would call him back.
Well, Mayor Bing didn’t return my call. Deputy Commissioner Fred Wheeler didn’t return my call. I’m starting to feel like the mayor of Highland Park.
For the love of god, free the big green fire truck for the sake of somebody’s children!
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Should firefighters from the local volunteer fire department duty crew be on the roof of the mayor’s home removing shingles with the fire trucks parked out front? That’s the question in Pine Hill, New Jersey after that exact scenario took place on April 6, Good Friday.
WCAU-TV put an investigative reporter on the case after neighbors sent in cell phone pictures. The cameras were rolling when the neighbors confronted Mayor Christopher Green ten days later.
Mayor Green contends he did nothing wrong and that the firefighters were there to help his son who is a junior member of the department.
“They drove the fire truck down to my house, so that if they got a call, they could go to the call,” said Mayor Green.
“What if they fell off your roof and couldn’t go to a call?” asked one resident during the meeting. “How are you going to explain that? Who was going to pay for them if they fell off your roof?”
“I would have paid for them,” answered Mayor Green. “When individual members ask for assistance they help each other.”
“Regarding sending the apparatus with a full duty crew so that the truck will be at the ready, I feel I made the right decision and I’d make the same decision tomorrow,” said Pine Hill Fire Chief John Greer.
An internal investigation done by the city’s personnel director (also a former mayor) found that Mayor Green did nothing wrong. The chief, who was one of those helping out on the roof, says he is thinking of quitting because the department has become a “political football” in this episode.
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Leesburg Today reports that at a press conference this evening in Middleburg, Virginia it was disclosed that a criminal investigation, still ongoing, has determined that close to $500,000 in funds are missing from the Middleburg Volunteer Fire Department. According to the paper’s website, a statement from attorney Ed MacMahon Jr. indicates the money was embezzled over the last three years by Paul Draisey the department’s treasurer. MacMahon is representing the fire department. Draisey committed suicide on April 16. Draisey was also a long time radio personality in Loudoun County.
The money lost includes donations and funds from both the Town of Middleburg and Loudoun County.
From Leesburg Today’s Erika Jacobson Moore:
The county government will be conducting an audit of the fire department. The results of that audit will be made public at the “first available date,” MacMahon said, but he added there is no indication when that would be.
The board of the volunteer company is hopeful that it can recoup “some, if not all, of these losses” through insurance policies that were already in place, MacMahon said.
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This is additional raw video from the two-alarm fire on Friday at 1337 Girard Street in Northwest Washington, the home of DC activists Dorothy Brizill and Gary Imhoff. It was shot by Vito Maggiolo for the DC Fire & EMS Department. Vito arrived a little later than the earlier video we posted, but he takes us a little closer to the action and captures the collapse at 4:50 on the clip.
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Someone needs to get a dose of reality at the Blue Hills Fire Department in Bloomfield, Connecticut very quickly. That is an actual on the record quote given to the Hartford Courant’s Steven Goode by Fire Commissioner Jimmy Davis. Lovely, isn’t it?
Davis is a retired truck driver with a disability who has been a commissioner for the Blue Hills Fire District for 13 years. Because Davis is not an active firefighter, Assistant Fire Chief Roy Rickis, when he was acting chief in January, decided not to renew the state blue light permit for Davis’ POV. Reporter Goode describes the Ford Crown Victoria as being ”tricked out like a state police cruiser”.
So, rather than take this insult, Commissioner Davis showed Chief Rickis who is in charge. He took away the department issued SUV that Chief Rickis used to respond to fire scenes.
So, in other words, if the man who isn’t a firefighter can’t respond, let’s keep the active fire chief from responding too. That should help our mission of protecting the public, don’t you think?
Right up there with the “dumb-ass assistant chief” comment is Commissioner Davis telling the paper Rickis is lucky he only had the SUV taken from him and wasn’t fired.
For three months, the man who is supposed to be in charge on the fireground responds in his own personal vehicle without lights and siren.
Here’s more from reporter Goode:
“He messed with me,” Davis said. “Someday when I feel it’s right, I may give it back to him.”
“It’s not right,” Rickis said. “I got stuck in traffic. But I take it with a grain of salt.”
Davis has had flashing blue lights on his personal car for years, having had his permit renewed annually by fthen-Fire Chief Art Gold even though he’s not an active firefighter and his disability requires him to carry a folding walker in the back seat. He keeps a mobility scooter in the Blue Hills firehouse to help him get around there.
Make sure you read this entire article to understand just how stupid it all is
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FireCritic.com’s Rhett Fleitz found this helmet-cam video of a house fire around 4:30 AM yesterday in Jacksonville, Florida.
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Previous coverage of this fire
On Friday we posted three video clips of the early stages of a two-alarm fire in a large house at 1337 Girard Street in Northwest Washington, DC. The home was owned by activists Dorothy Brizill and Gary Imhoff. For some reason the video was taken down a few hours later. The videos from jroweddc was re-posted to YouTube combined in one clip and some of the sound apparently edited.
Someone has also posted the original Part 2 and Part 3 videos without editing.
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This is video shot by Matt Van Ness of a fire on Tuesday at a vacant multi-family home on Windsor Avenue in Meriden, Connecticut. Matt was recently featured in an article about his videos of the Meriden Fire Department.
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Bill Carey at BackstepFirefighter.com found this video and has some commentary on it at his site. It’s from a fire May 1 at 12,010 Valleywood Drive in the Glenmont area of Montgomery County, Maryland.
No one was injured, Assistant Chief Scott Graham said. Firefighters were dispatched to the scene at approximately 3:30 p.m.
“The homeowner was working on a piece of engine equipment in the basement when it fell over and landed on a can of brake cleaner,” Graham said in a statement. A water heater pilot light ignited the brake cleaner’s fumes, and the fire extended up the walls and into the first and second floors.
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UPDATE: The early video of the fire taken by a neighbor has been removed from YouTube. News video has been added.UPDATE to the UPDATE: Video has been re-posted. Click here.
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Note: As a reporter I had many conversations with Dorothy Brizill and was the recipient of a lot of good information that she uncovered about the DC government, including its fire department. My thoughts are with Dorothy and her husband Gary Imhoff through this difficult time.
On this page are three video clips of the early stages of the fire at 1337 Girard Street in Northwest Washington, DC posted to YouTube by jrowedc.
The home of D.C. activist Dorothy Brizill and her husband burned down Friday afternoon.
The Columbia Heights home was destroyed around 4:30 p.m. in a fire in the 1300 block of Girard Street. Nobody was home at the time.
Firefighters are still dealing with a gas leak.
One firefighter received minor burns to his legs, and was transported to an area hospital.
Brizill and her husband, Gary Imhoff, founded D.C. Watch, a D.C. government watchdog group.
The fire was first reported about 4:45 p.m. Over 80 firefighters, two engines and one truck were dispatched to combat the two-alarm blaze, according to D.C. Fire and EMS. Only one injury has been reported—a firefighter who suffered from smoke inhalation.
Though we’re still awaiting details on the cause of the fire, the house has been a target of neighborhood curiosity and complaints. The house—built in 1870—came under the watchful eye of the D.C. Board for the Condemnation of Insanitary Buildings in 2007, according to a 2008 City Paper article. In 2002, the structure was put on the list of vacant and abandoned properties. There’s nothing yet indicating that today’s fire and any past problems are related.
Mike DeBonis & Clarence Williams, Washington Post:
Brizill and Imhoff, under the name D.C. Watch, have been deeply engaged as local government watchdogs for more than two decades. Notably, Brizill in 2002 raised questions about ballot petitions submitted by former Mayor Anthony A. Williams, which led the Board of Elections and Ethics to strike his name from the Democratic primary ballot. Williams ended up winning as a write-in candidate. More recently, Brizill raised concerns about the voting record of a top aide to Mayor Vincent C. Gray (D), leading to her resignation.
Their home, built in 1870, has garnered the attention of city authorities in the past decade for its sometimes dilapidated condition.
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This is a fire handled by the East Contra Costa Fire Protection District at 4792 Bayside Way in Oakley, California. No date given, but this one follows that growing trend of having musicians travel with the firefighters, though this band isn’t as loud (maybe I’m mistaken and it’s just someone’s iPod feeding back through the helmet-cam).
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Read Baltimore County Fire Department report on Firefighter Falkenhan’s death
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This is the video (in three parts) the ATF produced to accompany its engineering analysis utilizing Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS) of the fire that killed Lutherville VFC Firefighter Mark Falkenhan last year. There are links above to the ATF report by Adam St. John P.E., Fire Protection Engineer ATF Fire Research Laboratory and the internal report the Baltimore County Fire Department released in March. The modeling is matched with the fireground and dispatch radio traffic.
Description with video:
This video summarizes the ATF Fire Research Laboratory’s Engineering Analysis of the fire that occurred at 30 Dowling Circle on January 19th, 2011. ATF Fire Protection Engineers were asked to utilize engineering analysis methods, including computer fire modeling, to assist with determining the route of fire spread and the events that led to the firefighter MAYDAY and subsequent Line of Duty Death of Firefighter Mark Falkenhan.
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Above and below is raw video from a fire around 6:00 PM Friday at a three family home on Rutherford Avenue in Franklin, New Jersey.
The fire left three firefighters injured. (More video – Part 5, Part 6.)
Of the three injured firefighters, two were from Franklin and one was from Ogdensburg. Franklin volunteer firefighters Steven Knebl III and Donna Spoll were injured during the fire.
Knebl suffered minor burns to his face while responding to the blaze. He was treated at St. Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston and released Friday.
Spoll suffered a bruised collar bone and was transported to Newton Medical Center. She was treated and released on Friday as well. The Ogdensburg firefighter suffered chest pains while at the scene and was later released.
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The video above is a series of still pictures provided to STATter911.com of the fire inside Tyler Perry Studios on Tuesday evening. Atlanta Fire Rescue sounded four alarms to handle the blaze.
AP:
Investigators are trying to determine the cause of a fire that ripped through a simulated streetscape at Tyler Perry’s Atlanta studios.
The fire sent flames soaring about six stories high into the night sky. Officials say no one was hurt from the blaze that began shortly before 9 p.m.
An Atlanta fire captain says the fire never reached inside the building because of its concrete masonry behind the facade but there is some water damage.
More than 100 firefighters responded to the four-alarm fire. Perry was at the complex last night and spoke with the city fire chief.
The complex includes a 200,000-square-foot studio, five sound stages and a 400-seat theater in southwest Atlanta.
Pop star Cee Lo performed at a fundraiser for President Obama at the studios in March.
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Larry Shapiro on the scene early Tuesday morning of a basement fire on Hiawatha Lane in Riverwoods, Illinois. According to Larry, firefighters entering the first floor found the floor soft and were able to back out before the floor collapsed. Eventually, as you will see in Larry’s video, foam was used in the basement.
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