Dear Firefighter Close Calls, Our department responded to smoke in a residential structure. Upon the first unit arriving, they found nothing visible. They pulled a dry line and went in with a TIC and during that, the 70 year old owner was trying to get her 90 year old mother out of house that had...Read More
At approximately 0400 hrs. E6, Q6, E2, E1 and Battalion 3 were dispatched to a reported house fire. Upon arrival, we saw that a single bay detached garage was fully involved. After stretching lines to the adjacent backyard, Aerial Operator Eddie S. and I were assigned to do a primary search of the house in...Read More
Dear FFCC.com: I was the Incident Commander and these two firefighters did an outstanding job in not only rescuing the victim, but keeping their composure when all went bad. They we able to rescue the victim and themselves just prior to the 1st floor lighting off. The victim was transported by helicopter to Philadelphia, PA,...Read More
I had my own close call two nights ago. 3 story end of row, heavy fire on arrival from the 1st floor windows. I was up and over, found fire in the roof in the rear, opened up and went down for a break.( The roof was at least 8 inches of tar, it took...Read More
On 1/29/04 at 10:35 am the WFD was dispatched to a reported house fire on Rt 201 near the town line. The com center stated they did not know if the fire was on the WFD side of the town line or if it was in VFD’s area, so was WFD Dispatched and requested that...Read More
Dear FirefighterCloseCalls.com, IT happened on a working house fire a few years ago. I am not proud of what happened but after it happened it changed my thinking on a particular item. I used to wear my helmet like the “TOUGH” firefighters wear it with the chin strap clicked on the brim of the helmet....Read More
