Firefighter Close Calls | Firefighter Close Calls is the home of the Secret List. The worlds most visited website focused exclusively on firefighter survival

Home of the Secret List

2 FIREFIGHTERS EJECTED IN 24 HOURS-DO U KNOW BRIAN HUNTON? HOW ABOUT THIS…..!!

 Billy    December 20, 2016    No Comments

On Monday, in what would be 24 hours before an Ohio Firefighter would be killed in the Line of Duty (responding vehicle crash, ejection, no seat belt in use), a Trenton (New Jersey) Firefighter was seriously injured when he fell from Engine 9 while responding to a fire call.
The Firefighter fell out of the engine at about 1330 hours while the apparatus went around a curve turning out for a run.
The Firefighter was taken to the trauma center at Capital Health Regional Medical Center in Trenton, where he was being treated late yesterday-it appears he will thankfully make a full recovery.
The fire apparatus, Engine 9 operates a “closed cab” piece of apparatus, with doors. It was officially unknown if the firefighter was wearing a seatbelt at the time.
REMEMBER FIREFIGHTER BRIAN HUNTON?
The Amarillo Fire Department received a report of a house on fire at 2200hrs on March 23, 2005. Ladder 1, an American LaFrance quint, departed Amarillo Station 1 at 2201hrs en route to the fire. As Ladder 1 turned off South Van Buren Street onto East 3rd Avenue, the left rear passenger door on the apparatus opened. Firefighter Hunton, who was preparing to don his breathing apparatus and who was not wearing a safety belt, fell from the apparatus, striking his head on the street and sustaining severe head injuries. Firefighter Hunton was transported to a local hospital, where he underwent emergency surgery. Firefighter Hunton’s condition deteriorated, and he died in the Line of Duty of his injuries at 0953hrs on April 25, 2005. The latching mechanism for the door through which Firefighter Hunton fell was found to be malfunctioning but the seatbelt was in tact-althought not in use.
An EXCELLENT Piece About Brian: https://station-pride.com/2016/04/23/eleven-years-ago/
SEATBELTS & FIREFIGHTERS:
http://www.firehouse.com/article/10470271/purpose-in-a-senseless-tragedy-the-amarillo-fire-department
BRIAN’S LODD REPORTS:
The Texas FM Report: http://www.tdi.state.tx.us/fire/fmloddinvesti.html
The NIOSH Report: https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/fire/reports/face200515.html
HOW ABOUT THIS! (Commentary)
While odds are seatbelts will always function properly-that is NOT always the case. A friend of mine in Texas told me this, his son being an EMT reported for work last month and while doing truck checks, noticed the bolts holding his seatbelt in were very loose. He took the time to make the repair and tighten up the bolts.
So what happened? 
Later that shift a driver crossed the road and struck his ambulance head on. The civilian driver was killed-my friends son and his partner were not. When is the last time ANY of us checked to make sure the seat belts were in working order? I know I haven’t.

 APPARATUS/VEHICLE/HIGHWAY, LODD's, News, News Firefighter Close Calls, Vehicle Safety

==
FIREFIGHTER
CANCER
==
PROSTATE & RELATED
CANCERS
INFORMATION:

also check the most current issue of the secret list

Click Here

Sign Up for Secret List

For Email Newsletters you can trust.

Please Visit
Our Sponsor

GordonGraham.com


YOU NEED THIS BOOK!
(Trust Us)

400+ PAGES.
90+ CONTRIBUTORS!
100% of the royalties from the sales of "PASS IT ON" will be donated to the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation and the Chief Ray Downey Scholarship Fund.
CLICK ABOVE TO ORDER YOUR COPIES TODAY!


 

Pass It On: The Second Alarm

BillyG-book-170


 

Posters

Click to Print

In Memory Of

fdnyClick this patch

helmet

ragusa

Click Here for The 9/11 Widows’ and Victims’ Families Association

ssc

Click Here: Skyscraper Safety Campaign

  • Home
  • About Us
  • Apparatus
    • Crashes
    • Struck By
  • Close Calls
  • Contact Us
  • Drills
  • FF Cardiac Health
  • FIRE & EMS CIVIL DISORDER
  • EMS Close Calls
  • Fire Communications
  • Firefighter Cancer
  • Firefighter History
  • Firefighter Staffing
  • Gallery
  • LODD Calendar
  • Modern Fire Behavior
  • NIOSH Lessons Learned
  • NIOSH LODD Reports
  • Pass It On
  • Behaviorial Health
    • Behaviorial Health Resources
    • Behaviorial Health Information
  • Safety and Survival
  • Secret List
  • SOG’s
Submit Your
CLOSE CALLS /
NEAR MISS

 

LODD STATS

YearTotals
202271
2021139
202096
201957
201885
201793
201689
201586
201494
2013101
201283
201181
201087
200993
2008118
2007118
Tweets by @alertpage

Search Site

Contact Info

Email BillyG
[email protected]

Email Weekly Drill
Suggestions to

[email protected]


Copyright © 2003-2022

Copyright Disclaimer: This non-commercial, non-profit and free use website is for the exclusive purpose of firefighter safety, health and survival. All photographs in these posts are either submitted or from aggregate Google and are used in the postings for the purposes of education, satire, and parody, criticism, news reporting, research, and scholarship consistent with 17 USC §107 and never due to intentional or malicious misuse of a copyright.