The Way We Were; 2 Dead in D.C. Fire; Apartment in Quebec; Plastics in Indiana; Surgery for Reid; Meet Me in St. Louis; Flashover & Backdraft Videos
Even though I find a fair amount of video, Firefighter Spot always seems to have something I don’t. This includes the controlled flashover above.
Box alarm on Memory Lane.
Yes, it’s a corny title, but we have more pictures from the Chillum-Adelphi VFD and beyond, thanks to Cranker Bob. There is also a debate in the comments section over whether the last picture on the page is of Truck 44.
Deadly D.C. fire.
A fire at 6:30 morning has taken two lives. A second alarm was dispatched to 721 Emerson Street, NW. Thirty-nine-year-old Ramsi Gilbert was found dead at the scene. His mother, 77-year-old Letha Gilbert was pronounced dead at the hospital. According to Chief Dennis Rubin, Ramsi Gilbert had escaped the fire, but went back in trying to rescue his mother. The fire is believed to have started in the basement. We have video of the fire’s aftermath here.
Fire in Canada.
The best I can tell, from what I remember of high school french, is that the video above is of an apartment fire in Quebec on Saturday. Lately most of the videos we have seen from Canada have been major conflagrations. Nice to see something more routine.
Update from a french speaking source. This is Trois-Rivieres (Three Rivers), about 80 miles northeast of Montreal. The firefighters are “policiers-pompiers”. They arrive in police cars and don fire gear while waiting for the engine to arrive.
It is the last major city in Quebec that still uses cops to fight fires. Trois-Rivieres, population 135,000, recently opened its first station with full-time firefighters. The plan is to convert to a dedicated firefighting force by 2015.
Around the web.
WithTheCommand.com has some Texas fires this morning.
FireGeezer has some wildfires and more on the home separation tests NIST did 3 years ago (I swear I will get that video back up soon).
SConFire.com and Firefighter Hourly have SC and beyond covered. FireNews.net does the same for NC.
“I just want to say one word to you – just one word”.
Fans of the movie “The Graduate” know the one word that eventually follows that line is “plastics”. Well, that was what what was burning in Richmond, Indiana starting Friday afternoon.
It began in a downtown storage facility for Primex Plastics and spread. Including to a building across the railroad tracks.
The image above is in mid-collapse. You can see raw video, including the collapse (at about 34 seconds into the video), here. FireGeezer has been on top of it and has more stuff.
Steve Reid ailing.
Chief Billy Goldfeder has details on surgery scheduled for the former D.C. Fire & EMS assistant chief. Also, a reminder about a blood shortage.
Facing the music in St. Louis.
Chief Sherman George had a rough Friday. A judge ruled against him and now the mayor is ready to discipline George for failing to implement promotions. The long battle continues.
A dangerous blast from the past.
The video above from a fatal Vermont fire is 9-years-old, but was re-posted on YouTube on Friday. Here is the description that goes with it:
Fire in a Mixed Occupancy Balloon Frame 5 Story Building, just after midnight, almost 30 people in the building in apartments on the upper floors – did not want to evacuate. Initial conditions were nothing visible on the outside and light smoke on Division 2 – things went downhill rapidly a few minutes into the call around 1:15am when conditions went from minor to major with smoke boiling from the upper floors. The firefighters evacuated shortly after and the 2nd floor collapsed. In the end, the fire was seven alarms and 3 civilians lost their lives. Watching this, you’re about a block away and the firefighters are at an 45° angle to the A-side of the structure. – thanks to firefighterclosecalls.com for the video and Fire Chief Troy Ruggles from St. Johnsbury, VT for sharing it with them.
Hangar fire during and after.
Video of the large airport fire earlier this week and a tour afterwards by the fire marshal.
Bus fire.
The one is from Barcelona.
Repeat customer.
Not a lot of info with this video, other than being Detroit and that the house has burned before.
Only 100 shopping days until Christmas.
But somebody recently posted this NIST video of a dry scotch pine burning.
