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Fireground audio from Jacksonville, FL 3rd-alarm: This is from a commercial fire last Thursday. The audio is used with a series of still pictures of the fire. Click here to read more about the blaze.
Fire burns Navy pier in Southern Maryland: We have pictures and video from Tuesday evening’s fire that destroyed a large pier at the Solomons Navy Recreational Center. Click here.
Firefighters burned trying to makes rescue before pumper arrives: An update to the story from Flint, Michigan we first told you about Tuesday morning. One of the firefighters burned is a lieutenant and the union vice-president. He was part of the crew trying to get to a man trapped on the second-floor of a burning home late Monday night. Without water they were forced to retreat. The closest engine company had been moved due to layoffs implemented a day earlier. The man who lived in the house was later found dead. There are also some interesting comments from the battalion chief. Click here for the latest.
PGFD has fatal house fire: An interior attack was abandoned just before a collapse and ruptured gas line occurred at a house fire near Upper Marlboro, MD on Tuesday evening. A body, believed to be the elderly home owner, was found in the house. Click here for more.
Firefighter responds on fatal wreck involving his son: In Shreveport, Louisiana, Chief Brian Crawford tells reporters a firefighter was on the scene of a deadly crash Tuesday morning where the victim was the firefighter’s own son. The 21-year-old had plans to be a firefighter. He was killed when his pick-up truck crashed head-on into a tractor-trailer. The young man’s mother also happened onto the scene. Click here for the story.
Klan robes at a firehouse: News reports indicate a captain with the Pleasure Ridge Park Fire Department in Louisville, KY is under investigation for a possible hate crime. WKLY-TV reports there are allegations the captain showed up for work dressed like a member of the KKK. Read the details.
Lots of fire in Scranton: Three buildings destroyed in a Scranton, PA neighborhood just before noon on Tuesday. Click here for some early video, news stories and links to fireground pictures.
The city that keeps on giving: Vallejo, California and its money and management problems have kept Bill Schumm very busy at Firegeezer.com for quite a while. Now there is word its seventh city manager in four years is on the way out. Check out the story.
The best of Vito: DC Fire & EMS Department photographer Vito Maggiolo’s work was featured at the department’s recent awards ceremony. A compilation of his videos was put together by Dustin White at the Catholic University of America. Click here for the video.
