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Above is spokanefire video of a house fire around yesterday afternoon at Perry and Nora in North Spokane. Here’s the description with the clip:

Assistant Fire Chief was first unit on scene of this working structure fire. Ladder 2 can be seen arriving shortly after.

Four firefighters were hurt during the fire. There is later raw video below from KREM-TV and neighbors.

KREM-TV:

One firefighter hurt his arm, and the other three suffered heat exhaustion according to crews on the scene. Officials said two firefighters were taken to a Spokane hospital.

The man who lives at the house said he safely escaped from the house with his bearded dragon.

Firefighters searched the home for the tenants. Crews initially thought a child might be inside the house. They said the child was found safely outside of the house.

Crews at the scene said the fire was so hot that it melted one firefighter’s coat.

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Pre-arrival video: Commercial fire in Ulster, NY.

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Video from 3i3am3three3 of a fire on February 12, in Ulster, New York. There is also earlier video here & here.

Paul Kirby, Daily Freeman:

The Empire Mart & Deli on Hurley Avenue was destroyed on Tuesday by a fire that sent flames through the roof and thick, black smoke high into the air.

An attached vacant restaurant space, which was a pizzeria until two weeks ago, was heavily damaged by the fire.

No one was injured in the blaze, according to Spring Lake Fire Department Chief Doc Cranston. State police said two employees were in the convenience store when the fire started at 3:45 p.m. but were able to get out safely.

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Posted by dave statter on March 23, 2013 • Filed under: Command & Leadership, EMS Topics, fire, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighter Safety & Health, Firefighting Operations, Fires, Videos • Tagged: building fire, collapse, Command Fire Apparatus, convenience store fire, Dave Statter, early video, Empire Mart & Deli, EMS, EMT, fire, Fire Truck Blog, firefighter, firefighting, Fires, FireTruckBlog.com, Glenn Usdin, Hurley Avenue, Kingston, Kingston Fire Department, New York, paramedic, pre-arrival video, sellfiretrucks.com, Spring Lake Fire Department, STATter911.com, structure fire, Ulster, Ulster County, Ulster fire

Early video with rescue: Man pulled from burning North Hollywood, CA apartment.

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Images above & below from video by Jeffrey Geller RMc Video Click here to view video.

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View LAFD photos of the fire by Rick McClure

City News Service, DailyNews.com:

A 20-year-old man who suffered burns over more than 70 percent of his body was fighting for his life this (Thursday) morning after being pulled from a burning apartment in North Hollywood, a fire department official said.

The fire was reported at 10:44 p.m. Wednesday in a first-floor unit in the rear of an apartment building at 6737 Denny Ave., near Vanowen Street and Bob Hope Airport, said Brian Humphrey of the Los Angeles Fire Department.

From LAFD spokesman Brian Humphrey:

The Los Angeles Fire Department was summoned at 10:44 PM on January 23, 2013 to 6737 Denny Avenue in North Hollywood. Firefighters arrived quickly to find one first-floor unit at the rear of the 18,150 square-foot 2 story garden-style apartment building fully involved with fire.

Thirty-seven firefighters under the command of Battalion Chief Peter Benesch mounted a tenacious fire attack with simultaneous search that led to the dramatic rescue of a 20 year-old pulseless and non-breathing man from the intensely burning apartment.

A relentless resuscitation effort by a trio of LAFD Paramedics ensued and continued during ambulance transport, as the veteran rescuers leveraged decades of experience to restore a heartbeat and respiration to the man, who had sustained second- and third-degree burns to more than 70% of his body.

“Though he remains in critical condition, the efforts of LAFD rescuers have given this man a fighting chance of survival” said Los Angeles Fire Department spokesman Brian Humphrey.

No other injuries were reported.

Monetary loss from the fire, which was confined to the one heavily damaged apartment, is still being tabulated. The cause of the blaze remains under a joint active investigation by Los Angeles Police officials and Investigators from the LAFD Arson/Counter-Terrorism Section.

Dispatched Units: E260 E60 T60 RA860 RA60 E89 EM14 BC14 E77 E289 T89 E86 AR2 AR23 AR7 AR9

Posted by dave statter on January 25, 2013 • Filed under: Command & Leadership, EMS Topics, fire, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighter Safety & Health, Firefighting Operations, Fires, Los Angeles Fire Department, News, Rescues, Videos • Tagged: apartment fire, Brian Humphrey, building fire, burns, California, Command Fire Apparatus, critical, critical burns, critical condition, Denny Avenue, early video, EMS, EMT, fire, Fire Truck Blog, firefighter, firefighting, Fires, FireTruckBlog.com, garden-apartment, Glenn Usdin, LAFD, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Fire Department, man burned, North Hollywood, North Hollywood fire, paramedic, rescue, save, sellfiretrucks.com, STATter911.com, structure fire

Pre-arrival video: Initial attack at five-alarm fire in New Orleans’ Tremé neighborhood.

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A week ago today a fire that started in a home undergoing renovation in New Orleans spread to another home being renovated next door. Before it was over embers spreading downwind ignited six more homes in Tremé in the area of North Robertson Street between between Esplanade Avenue and Kerlerec Street.

The video above by Lark Sowell, passed along to us by frequent New Orleans visitor Vito Maggiolo, begins before the arrival of the fire department. The first unit on the scene is the safety officer who was in the area and reported the fire.

The video below by Halen13420 shows some of the homes that were ignited by the blowing embers.

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Posted by dave statter on October 26, 2012 • Filed under: Command & Leadership, EMS Topics, fire, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighter Safety & Health, Firefighting Operations, Fires, Videos • Tagged: 5-alarm fire, 5-alarms, building fire, burning embers, collapse, Command Fire Apparatus, Dave Statter, early video, EMS, esplanade, exposures, fifth alarm, fire, Fire Truck Blog, firefighter, firefighting, Fires, FireTruckBlog.com, five alarm fire, five-alarms, Glenn Usdin, high winds, house fire, initial attack, Louisiana, New Orleans, New Orleans Fire, New Orleans Fire Department, NOLA, paramedic, pre-arrival video, robertson, safety officer, sellfiretrucks.com, STATter911.com, structure fire, Treme, Vito Maggiolo

Arrival video & fireground audio: West Baltimore rowhouse fire.

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Still pictures from recon2photo

Video, still pictures and fireground audio from yesterday’s fire at 908 N. Carey Street in Baltimore, Maryland. Engine 8 and Truck 10 were first on the scene coming from quarters two blocks away. The videographer makes note that Truck 10 is one of the companies scheduled for closing on July 1. Here is part of the description of the fire from the website for Engine 8 and Truck 10:

Engine 8 ran into a little snag when their pumps malfunctioned. With the fire being fueled by winds it spread quickly up the interior stairwell to the upper floors. With a lack of water units were forced to stand fast at the front door until they got water. Eventually crews were able to enter the dwelling and fully extinguish the fire.

The video is from FFNick07 at YouTube.

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Posted by dave statter on April 13, 2012 • Filed under: Administration & Leadership, Baltimore City Fire Department, Command & Leadership, Dispatch & Communications, EMS Topics, fire, Fire Dispatch, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighter Safety & Health, Firefighting Operations, Fireground Audio, Fires, Videos • Tagged: arrival video, Baltimore, Baltimore City Fire Department, Baltimore Fire Department, budget cuts, building fire, Command Fire Apparatus, Dave Statter, early video, EMS, EMT, Engine 8, fire, Fire Truck Blog, firefighter, firefighting, Fires, FireTruckBlog.com, Glenn Usdin, house fire, Maryland, paramedic, raw video, rowhouse fire, sellfiretrucks.com, STATter911.com, structure fire, Truck 10

Arrival video: Hobart, Indiana house fire.

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Video from Ed Malik of a house fire at 3721 Alabama in Hobart, Indiana. Here’s some of what Ed wrote in the description:

New Chicago firefighter had spotted smoke in the area and moments later located a house with heavy smoke showing. Crews quickly stretched a line to the rear of a vacant dwelling. The fire was knocked and it was quickly determined the fire was suspicious. Arson investigators did rule the fire as arson. The following day another attempt to start the house on fire was made.

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Posted by dave statter on April 10, 2012 • Filed under: Administration & Leadership, Command & Leadership, fire, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighter Safety & Health, Firefighting Operations, Fires, Videos • Tagged: Command Fire Apparatus, Dave Statter, early video, EMS, EMT, fire, Fire Truck Blog, firefighter, firefighting, Fires, FireTruckBlog.com, Glenn Usdin, Hobart, Hobart Fire Department, house fire, Indiana, New Chicago, New CHicago Fire Deparetment, paramedic, sellfiretrucks.com, STATter911.com, structure fire, vacant dwelling, vacant house fire

Arrival video (this is not a drill): Seven-alarm residential fire with exposures on Chelsea Street in East Boston.

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Boston.com:

A seven-alarm fire destroyed a brick duplex in East Boston on Sunday afternoon, displacing 30 people, injuring three firefighters, damaging adjacent properties and snarling traffic in the heavily congested area, officials said.

Steve MacDonald, a Boston Fire Department spokesman, said the initial call came in shortly before 2 p.m. and officials rapidly raised the number of alarms because of the size of the building, which is located on Chelsea Street, the number of families it houses, and the proximity of neighboring buildings. The building next door, which was damaged by the flames, is about four feet away, officials said.

WBZ Radio:

At one point, the 7-alarm blaze seemed to be contained, but then it flared up again, causing ceilings and walls to buckle.

Three firefighters were hospitalized. Two suffered shoulder injuries, while one suffered an arm injury.

WFXT-TV:

When firefighters arrived on scene, there was heavy smoke and fire coming from the top floor of the multi-family home. The top floor houses two residents who were not home at the time of the fire.

The fire quickly spread to other buildings while additional fire crews were called to knock down what became a seven-alarm fire.

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Posted by dave statter on April 1, 2012 • Filed under: Boston Fire Department, Command & Leadership, EMS Topics, fire, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighter Safety & Health, Firefighting Operations, Fires, News, Videos • Tagged: Boston, Boston Fire Department, building fire, Chelsea Street, Command Fire Apparatus, Dave Statter, early video, East Boston, EMS, EMT, fire, Fire Truck Blog, firefighter, firefighting, Fires, FireTruckBlog.com, Glenn Usdin, house fire, Massachusetts, paramedic, sellfiretrucks.com, STATter911.com, structure fire

Pre-arrival video: Firefighting in the U.K. as school burns.

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BBC:

Parts of Lichfield's Cathedral School remain closed after a fire that saw 200 children evacuated from the building.

Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service said the school carried out a "well co-ordinated evacuation" after the fire was discovered.

ExpressandStar.com:

Hundreds of pupils were evacuated from a school in Staffordshire after a laptop computer exploded.

At the height of the blaze, crews from Lichfield, Tamworth, Chase Terrace, Burton and Barton under Needwood were in attendance.

Phil McFarlane, lead officer for Staffordshire Fire and Rescue, said so many firefighters were needed to ensure the flames did not spread to the cathedral.

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Early video: House fire in Lyons, New York.

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Video from a fire on Canal Street in Lyons, New York on Saturday.

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Posted by dave statter on February 7, 2012 • Filed under: Command & Leadership, EMS Topics, fire, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighter Safety & Health, Firefighting Operations, Fires, Videos • Tagged: Canal Street, Command Fire Apparatus, Dave Statter, early video, EMS, EMT, fire, Fire Truck Blog, firefighter, firefighting, Fires, FireTruckBlog.com, Glenn Usdin, house fire, Lyons, Lyons Fire Department, New York, paramedic, sellfiretrucks.com, STATter911.com

Early video & fireground audio: House explosion & fire in Schenectady, NY.

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The gas leak and explosion happened yesterday afternoon on Avenue B. Besides destroying the single family home where the leak occurred fire had already extended to the Side D exposure and threatening the B exposure when firefighters arrived. In the audio below you will hear that the original call was dispatched as a natural gas leak. The initial report of the explosion came when the first unit arrived on the scene and reported fire and asked for a second-alarm.

From WNYT-TV:

A quiet Schenectady neighborhood was instantly blown into horror late Wednesday afternoon. A powerful natural gas explosion leveled one house and severely damaged two others on Avenue B on the city's north side.

As horrifying as it was, residents who experienced it say it was a miracle that no one got hurt.

From TimesUnion.com:

A contractor, working on the duplex where he lived, had pierced a natural gas line while trying to ground an electrical wire.

Minutes later, there would be a massive explosion and fire that would level the home and damage two others along this dead-end street on the city's North Side.

Miraculously, there were no reports of injuries.

From YNN:

Schenectady Fire Chief Michael Della Rocco said, “By the time our crews arrived, the gas had ignited and subsequently exploded.”

“Our investigation has already begun. We’re working with the Department of General Services, also with the police department and our own investigative crews to find out what happened,” said Chief Della Rocco. “The results are typical of a gas explosion. The front, rear and both sides of the building being blown outward, and the debris field associated with that.”

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Posted by dave statter on January 5, 2012 • Filed under: Administration & Leadership, Command & Leadership, EMS Dispatch, fire, Fire Dispatch, Fire Rescue Topics, Firefighter Safety & Health, Firefighting Operations, Fireground Audio, Fires, Major Incidents, News, Videos • Tagged: Avenue B, Command Fire Apparatus, Dave Statter, early video, EMS, EMT, fire, Fire Truck Blog, firefighter, firefighting, Fireground Audio, Fires, gas explosion, Glenn Usdin, house explosion, house fire, natural gas explosion, New York, paramedic, raw video, Schenectady, Schenectady Fire Department, sellfiretrucks.com, STATter911.com

Pre-arrival video: Train collides with fuel tanker in Malaysia.

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There is a good deal of early raw video after a passenger train collided with a tanker truck on its way to make a deliver at a service station near Kota Kinabula International Airport in Malaysia on Monday. There are reports of eight injuries and no fatalities. The videos seem to be in chronological order from top to bottom. The first one is shot by women in a car who just been passed by the train as they were riding on a road parallel to the tracks.

From the AP:

Officials and reports say a Malaysian passenger train has rammed into a fuel truck on Borneo island, injuring eight people and triggering a large fire.

Police say more than 100 people were riding on the train when it struck the truck, which was taking a shortcut across the tracks in Kota Kinabalu, the capital of Malaysia's Sabah state in Borneo.

The national news agency Bernama quoted Sabah police chief Hamza Taib as saying that eight people were injured.

Witnesses say the crash caused a large fire with thick smoke that was visible for several miles (kilometers).

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Pre-arrival video: Two-alarm duplex fire in San Diego.

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Above is video that shows what this duplex looked like as San Diego firefighters arrived on the scene Friday around 1:30 PM. The two-alarm fire was in the 2900 block of Bayside Lane in Mission Beach. The video below is some close-up work by a neighbor in the building next door. Click here to watch a news report about the fire.

From KFMB radio:

A resident of one of the units in the three-story building just south of Belmont Park smelled smoke, opened his front door and was confronted with thick smoke, SDFRD spokesman Maurice Luque said. The man was able to escape unharmed by jumping out a second-floor window.

The intense flames caused a home just behind the duplex to begin smoldering, but crews were able to keep it from catching fire, according to Luque.

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Early video: Chicago firefighters pull up to heavy fire conditions in Lincoln Park.

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Pictures from Tim Olk at ChicagoAreaFire.com

The video above was taken as the first lines were stretched for a fire at 525 W. Armitage Avenue in Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood on Friday afternoon. Watch the pretty violent flash at :21 into the video (still frame below).

The building was built in 1888 and at one time it housed a funeral home. It was under renovation when the fire occurred.

This eventually became a 2-11 alarm and much of the building collpased. See the WLS-TV video below for the collapse. In addition there are two other clips from YouTube.

From ChicagoAreaFire.com:

Chicago firefighters responded yesterday to a fire at 525 W. Armitage, less than a block from the quarters of Engine 22. Upon arrival, they found heavy fire on the 2nd and 3rd floors of a three-flat that was undergoing renovation. The alarm was escalated to a 2-11 for additional companies. During the course of the fire, the building suffered a catastrophic collapse.

From WBBM-TV:

A still-and-box alarm was initially called for the fire at 12:50 p.m, but it was later upgraded to a 2-11 alarm, according to the Fire Department. Firefighters used four master hose lines and four hand lines to fight the blaze.

By 1:55 p.m., the building had collapsed.

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Pre-arrival raw video: House well-off in Anaheim, California.

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No details on a house fire in Anaheim, California yesterday.

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Pre-arrival video: House fire in New Chicago, Indiana.

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Edward Malik video of a fire around 6:50 Wednesday morning at 50 Washington Street in New Chicago, Indiana. New Chicago and Lake Station fire departments were on the scene.

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Early video: Apartment fire in Geneva, New York. Firefighters arrive first in POVs.

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This is video shot last Thursday evening of fire in an apartment complex in Geneva, New York. It was shot by someone riding with one of a number of firefighters who arrived on the scene before the first fire engine. News reports indicate one firefighter was hospitalized with smoke inhalation and dehydration. Click here to read more about the fire.

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Pre arrival video: House fire, Tybee Island, Georgia.

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A house fire early Saturday evening on 18th Street on Tybee Island in Georgia. Click here for more details on the fire.

UPDATE: The idiot who runs this blog has now posted the correct second video. It replaces the one about a unicycle excursion. Sorry.

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Early raw video: House fire in Saddlebrook, New Jersey.

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This video was shot by Ron Bombaro on March 25 on Adriana Street in Saddlebrook, New Jersey and posted Sunday on Ed Gray's allhandsgoingtowork YouTube channel. Click here for Part 3 and here fo Part 4. We previously posted another video from this fire by our friend Paul Bassett.

You can read more about the fire here.

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Pre-arrival video: Apartment fire in Columbus, Ohio. High winds & low water pressure.

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Two-alarms were need around 5:00 PM Sunday at this fire on Hilliard Park Boulevard in Columbus, Ohio. WCMH-TV reports high winds and low water pressure were cited as issues for Columbus firefighters.

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Pre-arrival video: Columbus, Georgia house fire.

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A neighbor shot this house fire on Sunday at 6023 Canterbury Drive in Columbus, Georgia.

From an article by Alan Riquelmy at Ledger-Enquirer.com:

Three adults with two dogs were standing in the street when firefighters arrived. One of their pet cats was unaccounted for.

The other was found inside the home — a victim of the fire, the chief said. "They were watching the Nascar race," (Battaltion Chief Terry) Herring said. "They didn't know the house was on fire. They just heard crackling and popping."

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Early raw video: View of deadly Shanghai fire as firefighters arrive. See first lines deployed.

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Previous coverage of Shanghai fire including dramatic rescue of man from scaffolding

Criticism of construction practices and the capability of the fire department

I had not seen this one until this morning. It is 12-minutes of raw video shot in the early stages of the massive high-raise fire on Monday afternoon in downtown Shanghai. It appears the video captures the first water being applied to the burning scaffolding sheathing the building.

At least 53 people died due to the fire. Others are still unaccounted for. A spark from the torch of an unlicensed welder is being blamed for starting the fire. Eight people connected to the renovation of the residential building have been arrested.

Here is more in excerpts from an article at Time.com:

“The accident should not have happened and could have been completely avoided,” Luo Lin, the director of the State Administration of Work Safety, said Wednesday, according to the state-run Xinhua news service. The building, which was constructed in 1997 to house retired teachers, was wrapped in scaffolding as part of a project to install insulation. The procedure is common in China, where the government has ordered broad measures to improve energy efficiency. Insulation is frequently added to the outside of buildings and then covered with layers of paint.

Lin said that workers had been scrambling to finish work on the building, which was illegally covered with flammable nylon netting. The netting, which was intended to keep construction debris from falling on the street below, helped the fire expand quickly across several floors. Flammable insulation made from polyurethane may have also contributed to the destructiveness of the fire, according to state media reports.

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Early video: West Plains, Missouri house fire.

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West Plains Fire Department website

Previous fire video from West Plains

This is from a fire on Tuesday handled by Missouri’s West Plains Fire Department. An evacuation order is given at 4:55 on the video. No details about the fire, but West Plains FD has posted a series of pictures from the fire. Click here.