Video from Frank Wesnoski (fwesnosk) from a house fire on Wednesday at 640 W. Rolling Road in Springfield Township, Pennsylvania (Delaware County).
From video description:
Pd arrived reporting 2nd floor fully involved. 44-9 requested a working fire dispatch, he arrived reporting fire through the roof and a hydrant right out front. 44-1 came right in and went in service with 2 2 ½ lines 56 put a blitzfire on the exposure which was already taking heat damage to the siding. Tower 44 put 2 elevated master streams in service and knocked the bulk of the fire. Crews then went interior with extensive overhaul and salvage.
Three people were routed from their beds by an early morning fire that caused significant damage to their Rolling Road home.
An unidentified jogger passing by 640 W. Rolling Road at about 4:45 a.m. on Wednesday saw flames coming from the roof of the two-story house. He banged on the front door of the home, alerting the two residents and their 5-year-old grandson to the fire. All three escaped without injury.
Some other views of a fire in Yeadon, Pennsylvania (Delaware County) on Saturday courtesy of OneNineTruck of the Lansdowne Fire Company.
Here’s some of the description with the video:
Truck 19 arriving at a working fire in the Borough of Yeadon. The inside crew found fire on the first floor extending to the second floor where they then split up doing searches on all floors. The OVM and Driver/Operator threw ladders, forced entry, ventilated, secured utilities, and made their way to the roof.
On 6-1-13, Engine 24 made the response with 5 personnel to assist the Yeadon Fire Company on a working house fire, 400 Block of Orchard Ave. Engine 24 arrived to find a 2 story twin, 15X30, smoke showing 1st and 2nd floor, B and C side. Engine 24 stretched two attack lines and found a kitchen well involved and extending.
Helmet-cam video from OneNineTruck (Landsdowne Fire Company) of the three-alarm fire on April 13 in Darby, Pennsylvania (Delaware County) that we covered when it occurred. Here’s some of the description with the video:
After being on scene performing Rapid Intervention for a few minutes forcing doors and cutting garage roll ups, the crew was replaced for RIT duties and were then asked to go to the roof and ventilate. The crew broke into two groups and quickly and aggressively trench cut the roof from alpha side to Charlie side.
Upon arrival, Engine 24 stretched the 200′ attack line to Side Alpha, and began an aggressive interior attack of the 1st floor. 24′s second arriving crews also stretched the 250′ attack line to division 2 where they found heavy fire conditions and extinguished the same. The 400′ attack line was also deployed to the basement division where several rooms were found well involved.
A raging, two-alarm fire destroyed the inside of a three-story home in the first block of East Stewart Avenue in Lansdowne Friday morning. According to officials at the scene, the home had just undergone a complete rehabilitation after a Christmas tree-fueled fire gutted the same house in 2008.
“The first responding engine had heavy fire on the first floor and second floor,” Lansdowne Fire Company Deputy Chief Wayne Worley said of the fire, which was dispatched at 10:355. Officers immediately struck a second alarm, Worley said, because they wanted to be sure they had enough firefighters to battle the blaze.
“The companies did a good job and got it under control in about 30 minutes,” Worley said, adding that nobody was inside the home.
Above is pre-arrival video from Omie26 and below is later video from Frank Wesnoski (fwesnosk) of a fire Monday afternoon on Chester Pike in the Borough of Norwood, PA (Delaware County).
Eight people were displaced after a fire broke out Monday afternoon in a building housing a single-family dwelling on one side and apartments on the other, police and fire officials said.
About 50 firefighters from six departments responded to the blaze in the 200 block of Chester Pike, where a building fire with entrapment was reported at 2 p.m., Norwood Fire Co. Deputy Chief Michael Bierman said.
A fire tore through a Chester (Delaware County) apartment complex early Monday morning.
It happened just before 1 a.m. at the Wallingford Apartments on Madison Street.
The Chester Fire Department arrived at the scene and controlled the fire quickly, but not before it destroyed many of the apartment units and caused significant smoke and water damage.
This is from a fire early Thursday morning at a twin home at 124 and 122 Bonsall Avenue in Glenolden, Pennsylvania (Delaware County). A woman and her four-year-old daughter were hospitalized due to the fire. A firefighter was treated and released.
Watching the video we noticed what on the surface appears to be a bit of a close-call at the 4:11 mark. As a master stream opens up on Side D of the house there is an arc and a line at the base of that flash breaks aways from the house. It falls to the left of a firefighter who is walking away from the home. It sounds like you hear someone yell "look out". Because of the camera's position it is hard to tell actually how close the line is to the firefighter. And it appears another line of some sort had already fallen away from the house when this occurred.
The fire, at Scully Welding Supply Corp. in Collingdale, broke out about 12:50 p.m. and quickly went to five alarms.
Image from KYW-TV.
“It looked like hell, like Dante’s Inferno,” said Collingdale fire marshal George Kaiser. “The fire was at least two-stories high.”
The main fire was declared under control around 4:30 p.m., and officials began letting almost all people return to their homes shortly after 7 p.m.
Three Scully employees were injured, including one seriously who was transported to Crozer-Chester Medical Center and was reported tonight in stable condition. Five firefighters were treated for heat related illnesses.
Kaiser, the fire marshal, was working at the storage center he owns adjacent to the Scully plant. He said the blaze ignited his building. The fire destroyed two old Collingdale fire trucks he kept on the premises and storage units rented by 70 customers.
Officials spent hours pouring water on large propane tanks to cool them, Lovejoy said. County Emergency Services Director Ed Truitt said officials also had been concerned about the danger the flames posed to a nearby oxygen supply company.
“If that building were to be breached, that could make life real interesting down there,” he said.
The fire caused heavy damage to Scully Welding Supply and a neighboring business, Kaiser Automotive, Lovejoy said. The cause of the blaze was under investigation by state and local authorities, he said. A call to Scully Welding Supply rang unanswered.
Tammy Scanlon, who lives a few hundred yards across the railroad tracks from Scully’s Propane, heard the explosions go on for about 30 minutes.
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