Mayday – A Mayday was called for a firefighter after he fell into a sewage treatment tank while fighting a fire. On Friday, December 10th, at 12:33, crews were dispatched to a reported fire in a laundry house near the pool of a condominium complex. On arrival, crews reported smoke showing from the eves of...Read More
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A firetruck was involved in a deadly crash Wednesday night after it collided with an SUV on Broadway Boulevard near Westport Road, which sent both vehicles into a building. Part of that recording details dispatchers telling fire crews to stand down. “Dispatch, do you want 18 to make that house fire?”...Read More
12/17/1953 in Chicago, IL the Reliance Hotel fire, 1702 West Madison, 3-11 alarm, left five firefighters and a civilian dead. “A discharged mental patient and five firefighters, including a battalion commander, were killed when the fire turned a 65-year-old Skid Row hotel into a crumbling death trap. The six dead were crushed beneath collapsing timbers...Read More
