We had a structure fire in a balloon style farm house undergoing a remodel. Heavy fire was burning in the second and first floors in the rear of the building. A sudden collapse of the secod floor, pancake style occurred during he fire extingusihment that was defensive at the time of the collapse. LESSONS LEARNED: No...Read More
Hey, 3 years ago today, April 4, 2008, Firefighters from Colerain Township (Hamilton Co, OH) responded initially to what was a reported automatic alarm. While responding, the dispatcher upgraded the run, indicating from the occupants that escaped but were reporting a working house fire. Not long after that Fire Captain Robin Broxterman, 37-years-old, a 17-year veteran career Firefighter/Paramedic, and...Read More
Deputy Chief Ken’ichi Kunisawa and his fellow firefighters braved boiling nuclear reactors for more than 13 hours. He talks to Lennox Samuels (author of this piece) about radiation fears and why this wasn’t a kamikaze mission. Watching television images of reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant smoking and exploding en route to a possible...Read More
A Bloomington FF is recovering from injuries after he fell down a ladder truck 30′ while helping during a training exercise at the city’s Public Safety Training Center. FF Johnson had been in the basket of an aerial ladder fire truck, next to a four-story tower, during rappelling and rope work training at the training center....Read More
