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Submit Your Close Call / Near Miss Navigation Home Close Calls 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 Calendar LODD STATS Yearly Totals Year Totals 2015 35 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)  Tweets by @alertpage ANOTHER FF DIES AFTER MASSIVE BLAZE IN INDIA  Monday, May 25, 2015   Chief fire officer of the Mumbai fire brigade, Sunil Nesarikar, died of multi-organ failure at the National Burns Centre on Sunday.Nesarikar sustained 50% burns while rescuing people during the blaze at Gokul Nivas in Kalbadevi two weeks ago. He was 51. Nesarikar is the fourth senior fire official the department has lost to the Kalbadevi blaze. Deputy chief fire officer Sudhir Amin died on May 14, while assistant divisional officer SW Rane and station officer MN Desai died while battling the flames on May 9. Hospital authorities said Nesarikar died around 3.30pm, after his organs stopped functioning. He is survived by his wife and son, an engineering student.  “We had conducted two surgeries and covered the burns on his legs with skin . We were supposed to cover the injuries on his hands in the next few days,” said Dr SM Keswani, medical director. “He was put on dialysis and ventilation, so that he recovers. But his organs stopped ... [ more ]       Tweet   UPDATE ON THE OKLAHOMA FIRE CAPTAIN WHO WAS KILLED IN THE LINE OF DUTY LAST NIGHT  Monday, May 25, 2015    As posted earlier, Claremore Fire Department (Oklahoma) Captain Jason Farley lost his life in the Line of Duty while performing water rescues late last night and early this morning. Captain Farley, who had 19 years and 11 months on the job, was 46. He is survived by his wife and teenage daughter. It should be noted that He was a 1994 graduate of the OSU School of Fire Protection  and Safety.   WHAT HAPPENED: Captain Farley was attempting to rescue a fellow firefighter who had fallen into a flooded storm drain just west of the city. They were involved with the rescue operation where water was rushing into a home during a young girl’s 5th birthday party. All of the children and one adult were rescued through a window but Farley was pushed into a storm drain where he drowned. “He’s our hero. That’s ... [ more ]       Tweet   CANADIAN FIREFIGHTING PILOT DIES IN THE LINE OF DUTY  Monday, May 25, 2015    A small aircraft used for fire suppression crashed Friday while operating at a wildfire near Cold Lake, killing the 38-year-old pilot and only person onboard. He was from Conair Aerial Firefighting, from Cranbrook, B.C. and had been fighting wild fires for four years.The crash happened on the Cold Lake Air Weapons Range, about 100 kilometres east of Lac La Biche, around 1630 Hours. This area is situated in Alberta's "Lakeland" district, 190 miles northeast of Edmonton, near the Alberta-Saskatchewan border. The plane was a single-pilot Air Tractor 802, known as a “Fire Boss.” The aircraft skims water off a lake to dump on wildfires. Crews in northern Alberta have been fighting wildfires for more than a week. On Friday, fire crews from Ontario arrived in Alberta to help in the fight. Our condolences to all those affected. RIP.       Tweet   OK FF KILLED IN THE LINE OF DUTY WAS LIVING HIS DREAM  Monday, May 25, 2015   Just before midnight Saturday, Claremore fire Capt. Jason Farley responded to a water rescue call at a home in the 600 block of Archer Court, where Shannon Roberts was playing host to six small children for her daughter's 5th birthday sleepover party. The neighborhood, Claremore Battalion Chief Marty Osborne said Sunday afternoon, frequently floods during severe weather, but hadn't been visited often in recent years due to drought conditions in the state. Farley, a 19-year veteran of the department, and other firefighters were checking homes on the street when they came across a ditch filled with water. Not realizing the water's depth, Farley stepped into the ditch, where he was immediately submerged outside Roberts' home. "When he got down there, the flow of water was going into the drainage pipe at the bottom of the ditch and it immediately began to take Jason into the drainage pipe," Osborne said. "He was able to hold on and others came to his ai... [ more ]       Tweet   MAINE FIREFIGHTER SUFFERS MEDICAL EMERGENCY/CRASHES APPARATUS  Sunday, May 24, 2015    A Sanford (Maine) Firefighter is in the hospital after suffering a medical issue while responding to a fire. The Sanford FD was called to Lyman for mutual aid at a structure fire Saturday afternoon. On the way, the driver of the department's squad truck suffered a medical issue and crashed the truck into a guardrail. No one else was involved in the crash. The driver was taken to Maine Medical Center where he is listed as stable. We wish the FF a quick recovery.       Tweet   FIREFIGHTER DIES IN THE LINE OF DUTY-ATTEMPTED RESCUE  Sunday, May 24, 2015   An Oklahoma Firefighter is dead, another injured, after they were swept down a storm drain during heavy rains in Claremore (NE of Tulsa). Crews were called to several duplex units just off Archer Court near Highway 20 around 2230 hours last night, Saturday, to rescue around ten people who were stuck inside their homes by rising waters. Around 2330, one of the Firefighters was swept into a storm drain. Reports are that the waters were so high, the firefighter likely never saw the storm drain that would soon sweep him to his death. Another firefighter, Zane James, rushed to the first firefighter's aid, but would soon end up swept into the drain himself. James was washed about 200 yards down the length of the drain, but suffered only minor injuries. It took rescue crews about two hours to recover the LODD Firefighter's body. The ten people flooded from their homes were sent to a nearby red cross shelter.       Tweet   CT FF INJURED WHEN LEG GOES THROUGH FLOOR AT FIRE  NBCCONNECTICUT Video  Sunday, May 24, 2015   A firefighter battling a blaze on Cabot Street in Hartford sent out a call for help Friday morning after his leg went through the floor. "We've got a firefighter down on the first floor," a member of the fire department can be heard saying over the scanner. "Mayday on the first floor." Suspect in D.C. Mansion Slayings Had Help: Authorities Officials said firefighters on scene were able to rescue their colleague after he became trapped in the multi-family home at 20 Cabot Street. "Firefighter's been freed. We're making our way out," the transmission continues.Kesha Coleman, who fled her smoky third-floor apartment, saw the injured firefighter emerge from the building. "They moved fast. They were doing their job and they got him on a stretcher and got him to the ambulance," Coleman recalled. Hartford Fire Chief Carlos Huertas said the firefighter was taken to Hartford Hospital for a medical evaluation. He suffered only minor injuries and no other residents we... [ more ]       Tweet   FIREFIGHTER IN SERIOUS CRASH WHILE ENROUTE TO TRAINING  Sunday, May 24, 2015   A NC volunteer firefighter is undergoing surgery Thursday. Officials said one of the two drivers involved in a head-on collision in Lincoln County was a volunteer firefighter. Crews with North Brook Volunteer Fire Department responded to the crash on NC 27 in Vale around 5:30 p.m. Wednesday. Firefighters realized the driver of the truck was one of their own, Ricky Tallent, 35, of Vale.Tallent was traveling to the department to attend a training class when a woman who was driving an SUV crossed the center line, causing a head-on collision, North Carolina Highway Patrol investigators said. There were two cars in front of her and the woman swerved around a box truck and hit a white truck, traveling in the opposite direction, troopers said. Firefighters used the Jaws of Life and worked for nearly one hour to free Tallent and the woman driving the SUV. Tallent suffered broken bones but was expected to survive when he was airlifted to Carolinas ... [ more ]       Tweet   WHOA! SO HOW'D THAT HAPPEN?!  Friday, May 22, 2015   Columbus, Ohio fire officials are trying to sort out how and why a firefighter caused $255,000 worth of damage to a new fire engine by scraping it under a Downtown billboard. Firefighter Brian Murphy said he was trying to drive to other firefighters and paramedics who were helping a patient in a nearby alley when he turned into a parking lot near the corner of Main and Third streets in early March, according to his accident review by the Columbus Fire Division. Murphy told investigators he didn’t notice any “reflective tape or warning sign of low clearance" on the sign when he tried to drive underneath and into a surface parking lot about 8 p.m. “I did not see the sign, and I stopped as soon as I heard the spotlights breaking,” he said to investigators. The sign was clearly lit, according to pictures from the crash. The billboard is about the size of a semi-truck. The collision ripped lights off the engine, damaged a water pump and hose, dented the... [ more ]       Tweet   FIRE APPARATUS STRUCK IN MICHIGAN BY "HABITUAL DRUNK"  Friday, May 22, 2015    Investigators are trying to figure out if a man may have been impaired during a rear-end collision with a Grand Rapids fire truck overnight. It happened just before 1 a.m. Friday near the corner of Burton Street and the East Beltline Ave. SE while firefighters were on the scene of another crash. A fire department battalion chief says the man, who is being called "a habitual drunk driver," drove through cones and into the back of a truck, which had its emergency lights flashing. He was taken to the hospital and treated for his injuries. But no firefighters were hurt in the crash. "It was kind of a close call for some of our people here," says Battalion Chief Dan Stoddard. "We were very fortunate that no one was hurt. we actually had a firefighter who had to run towards the woods because there as the car was coming in." The people involved in the original accident were not badly hurt.        Tweet   FIREFIGHTER CLOSE CALL IN L.A. COUNTY-FIREFIGHTERS FALL INTO ROOF WHILE ATTEMPTING VENTILATION  Friday, May 22, 2015    Four firefighters were injured after they fell through a roof while battling a three-alarm fire at an abandoned casino in LA County late last night.. The fire at the Club Caribe Casino ignited around 11:30 p.m. Thursday on the 7600 block of Atlantic Avenue. The firefighters were on the roof to cut a hole for ventilation when it gave way. They fell through and had to be rescued by fellow firefighters. Los Angeles County Fire Department officials said the roof collapsed like a slide, and the firefighters slid down. This minimized the firefighters' injuries, but the incident was still very intense. "It's very terrifying. These are guys that I've worked with day in and day out. This is actually my old crew here, so I know all the gentlemen involved in this incident," said Chris Reade with the Los Angeles County Fire Department. "When you're up on that rooftop and you start hearing creaking from that wood, I can't imagine. It's never happened... [ more ]       Tweet   FIREFIGHTER CAUTION: First of its kind drug lab found inside a home  NewsNet5 Video  Wednesday, May 20, 2015   A welfare check of a 4-year-old girl in Akron led to a chemical drug lab that is likely the first of its kind in the state of Ohio, according to Akron police.Police responded to 760 Silvercrest Avenue in Akron's Kenmore neighborhood to check on a 4-year-old girl around 6 p.m. Tuesday. Once at the home, officers could smell marijuana from outside in the driveway. According to Lieutenant Brian Simcox, when the officers approached the home a woman came to the door and told them they would need a search warrant to enter the home and check for the girl. Police went to a judge who signed the search warrant and they entered the home around 8 p.m. Tuesday. Once inside the home police immediately found a large amount of chemicals and equipment used in chemical drug manufacturing. Simcox said that he and other veteran officers could not identify the chemicals and had to call a BCI chemist to help with processing the scene. Most of the chemicals are ... [ more ]       Tweet   FIREFIGHTERS DOWN/ELECTROCUTED-CITIZEN DEAD AT EMS RESCUE RESPONSE-EXTREME CLOSE CALL  Tuesday, May 19, 2015    In Ottawa County (western MI, west of Grand Rapids) a 43-year-old man was reported unresponsive in the front yard of his home early this evening. 5 Firefighters from Crockery Township arrived on the scene and started to help the man. Not realizing he had been electrocuted and thinking he had a heart problem, they tried CPR and then used an automated external defibrillator (AED). While the Firefighters were working, one of them got too close to the still-charged telehandler (a portable mobile boom device) and was shocked. He fell into another Firefighter, who was also shocked. They suffered electric shock, as the forks on the machine were fully extended and in contact with an overhead power line. EXTREME CLOSE CALL: The initial shock caused the first Firefighter--a 38-year-old four-year veteran, to be electrocuted and to go into cardiac arrest, but other Firefighters with an AED were able to regain a pulse. The seco... [ more ]       Tweet   IS FDNY FF A COWARD? HIS COLLEAGUES THINK SO  Monday, May 18, 2015   He’s a firefighter in name only. Michael D. Johnson won’t fight fires. Instead he stays on the sidelines as his Engine Co. 257 colleagues rush into burning buildings, FDNY insiders told The Post. Nicknamed “Tragic Johnson” by rank and file, he’s managed to evade the smoke and flames several times since joining the Canarsie, Brooklyn, firehouse last year, sources confirmed. “To have a guy that you know to be afraid is not going to be there for you when you need him to be — it’s frightening,” said one FDNY source. The latest fright unfolded April 2 at a three-alarm blaze on East 78th Street, when Johnson’s irked captain radioed a “mayday” after discovering Johnson was AWOL, sources said. He had been assigned as “backup” to the nozzle man carrying the hose into the burning two-story building. That left just two firefighters — the first and a third — to haul the heavy hose up a long staircase and spray water on the flames. A photo obtain... [ more ]        Johnson (whose head is seen above the       car roof) stands on the sidelines while       his fellow firefighters battle flames  Tweet   CHICAGO AMBULANCE STRUCK BY BULLET WHILE TRANSPORTING PT.  Monday, May 18, 2015   Somebody fired a gun into an ambulance while paramedics were treating a patient Sunday evening in the Englewood neighborhood, according to police and fire department officials. At 5:35 p.m., paramedics were sent to the 5600 block of South Bishop Street for a traffic crash. But when they got there, they found an ambulance with its driver's side front window shattered, said Will Knight, a spokesman for the Chicago Fire Department. “A large caliber slug was noted on the floor inside the cab,’’ Knight said in an emailed statement. The shooting happened as two paramedics inside the ambulance, which was not involved in a crash, were treating a person who suffered shortness of breath, Knight said. No one was shot, he said. 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