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KS LODD; North Beach, MD Fire Pictures; Raw Video From Laurel Fire; PA FFs Protest Cutbacks; Couch Potato; Spontaneous Combustion on the Playground
Fire in North Beach, MD. Photo by Chip Norris, North Beach VFD. Click on picture for more of Norris’ photos from Monday’s fire on MarylandFireNews.com. Topeka LODD
1:00 p.m. EDT update: TFD has scheduled a news conference at 2:00 p.m. CDT to discuss the death of Captain Cox. WIBW-TV says it will stream the news conference on its website.
Details are still coming in about the fire at 6058 SW 27th St. in Topeka, KS. A Topeka TV station identifies the dead firefighter as Captain Anthony “Tony” P. Cox. He was a 21-year veteran of the Topeka Fire Department.
The fire was discovered shortly around 6:20 p.m. Monday, in a two-story building at the Villa West Apartments. Topeka TV stations report that Captain Cox went down not long after two rescues were made and the primary search of the building was completed.
A TV station reports this is Topeka’s first firefighter LODD since the early 1900s.
Topeka Capital-Journal picture of apartment building where firefighter died. Click on picture for more photos.Eastern Shore Fire
Firefighters around Stevensville, MD in Queen Anne’s County are busy this morning. Reports of fire through the roof of a commerical building at 180 Marine Academy Drive. The map puts it almost on the water, just south of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge. Earlier I could see some smoke from one of the traffic cameras near the bridge.
Raw video and lots of pictures from Laurel, MD fire.
Links to various video and pictures like the one above from Sunday’s fire in Laurel.
Mulch ado about something. Spontaneous combustion.
With smoking being moved from an indoor to outdoor activity, we have been hearing a lot about mulch fires started by discarded cigarettes and sometimes spreading to structures. FireGeezer looks at what it takes get the mulch going without anyone butting in. Spontaneous combustion in Texas. He also has FossilMedic looking at a study of injuries among EMS workers.
Elsewhere on the web.
WithTheCommand.com has a story about trying to explain the first responder concept in an Illinois town. Firefighter Hourly tells us of an injured firefighter in Brooklyn.
Tensions high after FD cutbacks in PA town.
Coatesville, PA in Chester County had a heated meeting Monday night over fire department cutbacks.
And finally. Get down, get low, get out or just stay on the couch.
Cat thought to be dead, survives fire. Details here.
