Three Lakeville firefighters suffered minor injuries while battling the city’s second structure fire in a 24-hour period Tuesday night.
The firefighters were hurt when ceiling collapsed while their fought a fire at 7910 166th St. W., says a Lakeville Fire Department media release. All three were treated at the scene.
Video and radio traffic from Don Murtha III (murthad02) of a fire Saturday evening in Cheektowaga, NY (Erie County). Here’s some of what Don Wrote about the fire:
Pine Hill Firefighters responded this evening for a report of a garage fire in the area of Olcott Pl & Bell Rd.
Pine Hill 9-1 went on location reporting a working garage fire and requested an additional mutual aid Engine & FAST Team to scene. Command reported an exposure problem on the #2 side.
Power has been shut off at a condominium after a fire broke out in a garage Sunday afternoon.
Columbus fire investigators say it started in one garage in the 100 block of Preswicke Mill Drive before it spread to two adjacent garages.
Multiple crews were able to keep the fire for seriously damaging the condos. The property manager says the units are liveable, but the back siding has melted.
Video from MsOblivius of an April 24 fire in Petaluma, California with one firefighter injury and a dog rescue. TheBravestOnline.com spotted this one first.
Thick black smoke was coming from the single-story home at 732 S. McDowell Blvd. when firefighters arrived at about 2 p.m., Petaluma fire Battalion Chief Jeff Holden said.
The firefighter was burned when he opened the garage door, which released large amounts of pressurized smoke and gases and caused a fireball to burst from the front of the garage, Holden said.
A dog was rescued from a back bedroom, and two cats are believed to have escaped the blaze, Holden said.
Video from CHRIS HALDEMAN (Makin’ The Hit) of a fire in a garage and barn at 3839 Old Philadelphia Road in Leacock Township, Pennsylvania (Lancaster County).
This is video and radio traffic from Hollywood VFD Deputy Chief Bryan Riley of a fire yesterday on Smoke Hill Road in California, Maryland (St. Mary’s County). The audio comes from http://www.scanmd.org/. The video is from Truck 7 and from the helmet-cam of Lt. Thorne aboard the first arriving engine.
At 0841 hours Station 9, Station 7, Station 3, Station 83, EMS Station 38, and EMS Station 79 were dispatched to the area of Smoke Hill Road and Wildewood Pkwy for the report of smoke coming from the building. Engine 72, Truck 7, Chief 7B, and Chief 7A responded with 11 volunteers on the call. Chief 3A was first to arrive finding a large garage/work shop with smoke coming from the roof area. Engine 72 was next arriving at 0846 hours dropping a supply line from Cottonwood Pkwy. with Engine 91 picking up the line. Truck 7 arrived on the scene next and assisted Engine 72 with forcing a gate at the entrance of the building. The crew of Engine 72 advanced an attack line into the structure finding fire on the back wall with extension to a storage loft. The crew of Truck 7 assisted crews with opening up and forcing several doors. The fire was placed under control within 15 minutes and Command held the units from Bay District and Hollywood for ventilation and overhaul. The fire ground was turned over to the State Fire Marshal and units from Station 7 returned to quarters at 1044 hours.
Video above and immediately below by Billy McNeel (Billy McNeel) from this evening’s wind whipped building fire in Laurel, Maryland. Additional video below by Laurel PIO Pete Piringer (the headline of this story really should have been that Pete knows how to take video and upload to YouTube).
The fire was at the Laurel Oil and Heating Company. Just before 9:00 PM PGFD Chief Marc Bashoor tweeted the following:
On scene Laurel Fuel Co fire – no hazmat ACTUALLY involved. Under control
Firefighters battled a fire at the Laurel Fuel Oil and Heating Company on Wednesday evening that caused significant damage to the business. At around 7:00 pm firefighter/medics were alerted to a building fire at 101 Main Street. Fire/EMS units arrived on the scene to find a 2-story building with offices on the first floor and an apartment on the second floor with an attached 100 X 75 garage with fire showing from the garage.
A “Task Force” was sounded bringing additional firefighters, support vehicles and incident commanders to the scene.
It was quickly determined that the garage housed three home heating oil delivery trucks. First arriving firefighters attempted an initial interior attack on the fire and then evacuated the building to regroup. The bulk of the fire was knocked down from the exterior using master stream devices before returning to an interior attack. It required about 45 minutes for 75 firefighters to knock down the fire. Firefighter/Medics from Prince George’s, Montgomery, Howard and Anne Arundel Counties operated on the fire ground.
One firefighter sustained a shoulder injury while battling the fire. He was transported to a local hospital for treatment.
The cause of the fire is under investigation with a preliminary fire loss estimated at $750,000 for the building and it’s contents.
A large fire broke out in a garage at a Laurel oil and heating business Wednesday evening, forcing authorities to shut down parts of Route 1 in the city, officials said.
Firefighters responded to the Laurel Oil and Heating Company in the 100 block of Main Street about 7 p.m. and found heavy fire in a garage that houses fuel trucks, said Mark Brady, a Prince George’s County fire department spokesman.
The business was closed at the time of the fire. No injuries were reported.
From City of Laurel spokesman Pete Piringer (description with Pete’s YouTube clips above & below):
Just before 7p on Wednesday, March 6, units from the Laurel VFD and Laurel Rescue Squad were dispatched to 101 Main St for a building fire. Approx 100 firefighters from PG, Montgomery, Anne Arundel & Howard Counties responded. There were no injuries. The fire involved a garage area attached to the Laurel Heating & Fuel Company. Damage is significant.
Somehow this video by hermy8 of a fire in De Pere, Wisconsin on August 31, 2012 slipped under the radar when it was posted. There is a lot of action going on even before the arrival of the fire department. It includes a small squad of police officers arriving. Two make their way to the second floor with a sledge hammer via an outside stairway on Side B apparently to check for victims. Their actions are out of view of the camera but by the sudden rush of smoke and their retreat down the stairs it appears they were successful in popping a door. News reports indicate this structure in the 600 block of West James is a garage with a workshop on the second floor.
Above is video from Paul Krause of the first of back to back garage fires handled by Tunxis Hose Company No. 1 in Unionville, Connecticut on January 21. The second one is below.
The Greenlawn Fire Department responded to a house fire on Sinclair Drive and Manor Road, on Friday night, January 18, at about 10:40 p.m. Upon arrival, firefighters found heavy fire involving the garage and a vehicle parked in the driveway, which quickly spread into the attic and first floor of the one-story ranch home. Greenlawn firefighters stretched several handlines into the house and began an aggressive interior attack
Christmas comes early for the STATter911.com KICs (keyboared incident commanders). It’s been a long dry spell for them. I believe June was the last time we posted a fire video from Stockton, California. Our KICs, as many of you know first hand, are very tough critics. But based on a few videos we’ve posted, they have been giving high marks for the suppression activities of the Stockton Fire Department. Will the trend continue?
This video, from at least two different cameras, shows fire in the garage of a single-family home. The clip was posted to YouTube on Wednesday but I couldn’t find the date or exact location of the fire.
Here’s some of the description with the video posted by bereal2us:
An 1 ¾” liveline was pulled and attack was made from the interior door to the garage. Crews contained the fire to the garage, with minimal damage to the living area of the home. The video shows a liveline attacking the vehicle exposed by the fire, but was never used as an opposing hose stream.
Video by Don Murtha III of a garage fire early Wednesday morning handled by the U-Crest Fire Department in Cheektowaga, New York (Erie County). The fire is at 206 Clover Place and the fire department is located about a half dozen homes away at 255.
A two-alarm fire in the garage of a single-family home in Newark displaced a family and caused more than $175,000 in damage, according to Alameda County fire officials.
The fire on the 35000 block of Severn Drive was reported shortly before 2:30 p.m., Division Chief Andy Smith said.
This is a fire on Rhapsody Path in The Villages in Sumter County, Florida. It apparently occurred on August 13 and went to a second-alarm. Listen closely to the comment about “firemen are slow” at 3:35 and another neighbor pointing out how they have to protect themselves.
Bill Rohrer at Newsworking shot a garage fire yaround 11:00 last night at 2108 Main Street in Whitehall, Pennsylvania (Lehigh County). Here’s some of what Bill wrote:
Engines 2, 12, 11 and Rescue 8 were on the ticket.
Captain Monahan arrived and transmitted a working fire in a 1-story single car garage.
West Catasauqua Engine 2 arrived and stretched a hand line for a fire on the roof of the structure. Engine 12 dropped a supply line at Allen and 1st Avenue and reversed it to a hydrant at Bridge Street and 1st Avenue.
Fullerton Engine 11 arrived 3rd due and supplied manpower. The fire was quickly extinguished and the car was pushed out of the garage. It was heavily damaged in the fire.
Bill is too kind and didn’t mention something on the video that I’m sure many will notice and likely a few will make comments about (image below). It happens.
At 8 p.m., they went to a two-alarm house fire at 8252 N. College Ave., near Woodward Park and found a garage fire extending into an attic and other parts of the house.
The fire is believed to have started near a water heater in the garage. Two adults and two children escaped without injuries. An all-terrain vehicle and a passenger vehicle were destroyed.
In a story yesterday, KSEE-TV’s Joe Ybarra reports there were seven structure fires in Fresno in a 48-hour period stretching thin resources even thinner. It’s a challenge for former Stafford County, Virginia Chief Rob Brown who has been on the job in Fresno for just three weeks:
The city is facing a $16 million dollar budget shortfall. Engines have been reduced to three man crews and stations are housing one company instead of two.
“With the loss of companies, we are having to send additional resources as back up sometimes as quick as it needs to be so we have to be very careful,” Chief Brown added.
That takes time, valuable time. Especially when homes and lives are on the line.
“Sustainability is what worries me…in the short term we can make this work,” Chief Brown said.
Above is Coal Region Fire video of last night’s fire in Schuykill Haven, Pennsylvania that injured two firefighters. At 2:20 on the video a mayday is sounded for a firefighter who fell through the floor.
A four-alarm blaze Thursday night at a gun store in Schuylkill Haven injured two firefighters and destroyed the business in the center of town, according to Schuylkill County 9-1-1 dispatchers.
The fire was reported at 6 at the Schuylkill Gun Works, 20 W. Main St., and quickly escalated to four alarms as ammunition exploded in the building, dispatchers said.
Dozens of firefighters from Berks and Schuylkill counties battled the blaze for about 90 minutes before they controlled it.
The firefighter, who was not identified, was inside a building off Wilson Street Alley, to the rear of Schuylkill Gun Works at 22 W. Main St., when the floor gave way, prompting a “may day.”
The firefighter was quickly rescued by other volunteers and taken to an ambulance for treatment of non life-threatening injuries, authorities said.
Flames destroyed the garage attached to the gun shop along with a garage next to that which housed a privately owned woodworking shop, and two other garages.
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