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Submit Your Close Call / Near Miss Navigation Home Secret List Gallery EMS CloseCalls Drills Firefighter Staffing Personal Survival Safety and survival SOGs Links Modern Fire Behavior About Us Never Forget Fire Communications Pass it On LODD STATS Yearly Totals Year Totals 2015 3 2014 87 2013 101 2012 83 2011 81 2010 87 2009 93 2008 118 2007 118 2006 107 "In Memory Of" Click this patch   Custom Search  Contact Info  Email BillyG info@ firefighterclosecalls.com  Email Weekly Drill Suggestions to Drills@firefighter closecalls.com Click Here for The 9/11 Widows' and Victims' Families Association Click Here: Skyscraper Safety Campaign       Also check the most current issue of THE SECRET LIST for related News and Updates-(Click Here)  CLOSECALL IN GREENSBORO NC - VIDEO REVIEW  Review Video  Friday, January 23, 2015    On January 30, 2014 fire broke out at Import Knight Body Repair at 811 S. Elm St. at 12:47 p.m. The Greensboro Fire Department quickly responded to a reported car fire. Initially reported as a vehicle fire inside of a business, the fire had already spread within the structure before the first fire units arrived. Based on radio transcripts the first engine arrived on the scene approximately three minutes after dispatch. On arrival firefighters began to attack the fire and started searching the facility to ensure all occupants were evacuated. A ladder company was assigned to the roof to provide ventilation. At 9 minutes and 40 seconds a structural collapse occurred. Six firefighters were inside when the collapse occurred. Three firefighters, although injured, were able to escape. Two firefighters were not trapped and was able to make egress and exit the facility. Captain Suddarth on the first arriving unit was trapped under debris. A Mayday was calle... [ more ]         FF STRUCK IN GA  Friday, January 23, 2015    A firefighter struck by a vehicle while on duty in Haralson County on Tuesday evening might not be back on the job for a while. According to troopers with the Georgia State Patrol, Curtis Wilson, 31, responded to a fuel spill in the southbound lanes of Georgia Highway 100 near Interstate 20. They say Wilson was standing in the lane of traffic when he was struck by a pickup truck. He was airlifted to Atlanta Medical Center. The driver of the pickup truck, identified as 27-year-old Jeremy Gray, of Tallapoosa, was not injured. Troopers say he will not be charged in the incident. more ]         KANSAS FIREFIGHTER DIES IN THE LINE OF DUTY FOLLOWING TRAINING  Friday, January 23, 2015    We regret to pass on that Firefighter Ronnie W. Peek, 49, died in the Line of Duty last evening. Firefighter Peek fell ill while participating in fire department mandated air management training. He was subsequently transported to the hospital where he suffered a heart attack and passed away. Our condolences to all affected. RIP.          ENUFF BLAME TO GO AROUND! RADIO SYSTEM FAILURES IN FATAL DC FIRE-PAST THOUGHTLESS DECISIONS BY PAST THOUGHTLESS LEADERSHIP CREATED THE PROBLEM  Friday, January 23, 2015   The National Transportation Safety Board and Metro revealed new details on  last Thursday about what may have gone wrong in last week's deadly smoke incident at L'Enfant Plaza. One person died and more than 80 others were injured after being trapped on a train in a smoke-filled tunnel. The transit agency offered its first detailed account of some of the problems and what is being done to fix it. The failure of D.C.'s Fire and EMS radios inside the tunnels appeared to be a major flaw, but Metro now says there was nothing wrong with its radio antennas or repeaters in the underground station and tunnels. An initial report from D.C. Fire and EMS said Metro was notified about problems with the radios four days earlier. Metro spent several days trying to locate the problem but found none. The problem, Metro now says, was D.C. Fire and EMS. "We found out they had made some adjustments to their radio system primarily through encryption of the system which impacte... [ more ]   FIRE APPARATUS CRASH. STOP.  Friday, January 23, 2015    Remember that crash in California last April with the two responding apparatus? Well, the cops claim that unsafe driving caused the Alhambra FD rig to collide with a Monterey Park rig last spring, injuring 15 people. Despite placing fault with the Alhambra apparatus driver, no charges are being filed in connection to the April 16, 2014, incident....however, numerous civil suits are pending. The two fire apparatus, which were both responding to a fire at a Monterey Park home, collided about 1500 hours. In the moments before the collision, the Alhambra fire truck had its lights and sirens on as it headed southbound on Garfield Avenue at 15 mph----at the samee time the Monterey Park apparatus was driving 20 to 25 mph eastbound on Emerson Avenue, also with its lights and sirens. As both trucks arrived at Garfield and Emerson avenues, the Monterey Park truck had a green ... [ more ]