Quick takes
STATter fiddles while Geezer blogs: This is edited highlights from yesterday’s 4-alarm fire in Baltimore. There is also some raw helicopter video here. I know I reached one person with my reminiscing about the Edmondson Village Shopping Center. While FireGeezer actually covered the fire, I was talking about monkeys and a long closed shoe store and barber shop. Click here if you really care.
Fireground audio from 2nd-alarm and Mayday in MD: Two firefighters became separated from their companies during this apartment fire in Prince George’s County on Monday. Read details and listen to the fireground audio. Picture from crew of Tower 821.
DC FF shot: FF Hakim Carroll was treated and released for a graze wound to his left arm after his crew was fired on during a medical call Monday night. Click here for updated information, including a morning TV report from the scene.
On this topic Firehouse.com has the story of Wisconsin firefighters pinned down in the middle of a gun battle after responding to a fender-bender. At FireRescue1.com, Jamie Thompson has an article, Bulletproof vests — the next PPE for firefighters?.
Hazmat in MA: One person suffered burns and 29 others were checked out after a chemical explosion Monday in Attleboro. Excerpts from BostonHerald.com:
Workers at Stern-Leach Co., which makes gold and silver alloys, caused the minor explosion when they tried to mix sodium cyanide and hydrogen peroxide solutions totaling about 2.5 gallons under a fume hood, said Ed Coletta, a spokesman for the state Department of Environmental Protection.
Fire Capt. Tim Birch said a 55-year-old man from Johnston, R.I., was taken to the intensive care unit at Rhode Island Hospital in Providence, suffering from burns to the upper torso, head and face area.
A new book and some new video from Chicago: Steve Redick has been kind enough to alert us and share his pictures and video from Chicago and elsewhere. We posted his video from Friday’s 2-11. We also added a link to Steve’s new book. Check it out.
Two FFs of the year in DC: Rescues by two DC firefighters brought honors from a local club on Monday. Click here.
AFA slow down: UK’s East Sussex Fire & Rescue Service has one idea on handling the large percentage of false alarms from automatic fire alarms. They are looking at slowing responses. Read more.
