On 9/18/1926 two Philadelphia, Pennsylvania firefighters died “while operating at a five-alarm fire at Freihofer Baking Co. at 19th & Indiana Avenue, they were killed when they were caught under a collapsing wall.” On 9/18/2021 approximately 75 dogs “died in a fire at the Ponderosa Pet Resort in Georgetown, Texas. The City of Georgetown confirmed...Read More
On 9/17/1872 the first sprinkler system patent was issued to P.W. Pratt of Abington, Massachusetts. The world’s first sprinkler system was installed in the Theatre Royal on Drury Lane in the United Kingdom in 1812 by its architect Benjamen Wyatt, FSA. The system designed by William Congreve consisted of a cylindrical airtight reservoir fed by...Read More
On 9/16/1920 the first documented vehicle bombing occurred in New York City on Wall Street. The explosion killed forty in front of the headquarters of the J. P. Morgan Company caused by a bomb in a one-horse wagon. Around noon, a horse-drawn wagon passed lunchtime crowds and stopped across the street from the bank at...Read More
===THIS THURSDAY: FROM THE INCIDENT COMMANDER AND THE RETIRED CHIEF WHO LOST HIS SON ON A HIGHWAY INCIDENT The monthly NFFF Connect webinar is coming up this Thursday and it will be a special one. It will be about a vehicle crash on an interstate that killed heroic Virginia Firefighter, Lieutenant Brad Clark, in 2018. Not...Read More
Hey, Below is a link to the 50th Anniversary of the show EMERGENCY, the show that saved lives and launched careers! …Lt Brad Clark was struck and killed in the Line of Duty on an interstate-his Dad (retired Chief) and the IC share their story-in Bra’d memory. …Past Chief Randy Brugeman has started a cool project interviewing...Read More
===A UNIQUE, NEW FIRE LEADERSHIP PODCAST. EPISODE: Gordon Graham. EPISODE Chief Reggie Freeman EPISODE: Chief Pat Kenny The Leadership Crucible Podcast….presents their stories, so you can learn from their experiences and the lessons they have learned from the challenges and crucibles they have faced in their own journeys. CHECK OUT The Leadership Crucible Podcast: https://www.theleadershipcruciblepodcast.com/episodesRead More
