At 4 am on Sunday we responded to an apartment fire. The fire building was divded in the middle by a garden level utility room with four mirrored appartments on each side, 2 up and 2 down. I’m usually very observant and cautious when I approach any fire building and I immediately noticed what I...Read More
Welcome to a new page and hopefully the addition of a positive chapter consistent with the mission of Firefighter Close Calls, which strives to bring forward issues involving injury and death to firefighters. These are often issues that are ignored, quickly forgotten or just not talked about. I think this Personal Survival page fits that...Read More
A Hays man was arrested on suspicion of battery and interfering with a firefighter in connection with an incident Monday evening. Hays Police Lt. Don Scheibler said Glen A. Teel, 66 of Hays, was arrested after law enforcement officers responded to a call from a firefighter on 17th and Ash. The firefighter was diverting traffic...Read More
By Lindsay whitehurst The Salt Lake Tribune A Unified Fire Authority ambulance crew faced the grim scene of an accident that killed one of their own in Parleys Canyon on Saturday, police said. Bruce McGowan, 45, of Midway, was on his way home from work about 8:30 p.m., said Battalion Chief Clint Smith. As McGowan...Read More
NYU-Poly and NIST collected data during a week of test fires FDNY conducted on Governors Island to study techniques to control wind-driven high-rise fires. As 30 mph winds feeding a fire in a Manhattan high-rise apartment building threatened to create the unpredictable, fast-moving “blowtorch” effect that has killed far too many members of the...Read More
