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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 37 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) 2 LACoFD FIRE APPARATUS CRASHES Sunday, June 7, 2015  Two people were hospitalized after one of three separate crashes -- two involving L.A. County firetrucks and the third a sheriff's deputy -- along Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu on Saturday, Los Angeles County sheriff's officials said.The three crashes happened within a two-hour window beginning about 12:30 p.m., when officials say a fire engine smashed into a gray Toyota Prius pulling out of an intersection near Zumirez Drive. Two women in the Prius were airlifted to a hospital in unknown condition, said Lt. A.J. Rotella of the Sheriff's Department's Malibu station. About half an hour later, a vehicle rear-ended a sheriff's cruiser near the intersection of PCH and Winding Way, Rotella said. Nobody was injured. An hour or so later and less than half a mile to the east, a smaller firetruck was involved in a crash with a compact car making a U-turn, Rotella said, adding that a paramedic suffered minor injuries. PCH was closed for several ho... [ more ]         OH FF INJURED AT HOUSE FIRE WITH RESCUE Sunday, June 7, 2015  A civilian and a firefighter were injured in a Wickliffe fire Saturday morning, authorities said. According to the Wickliffe Fire Department, firefighters battled the two-alarm house fire just after 1 a.m. at the 28900 block of Ridge Road near Coulby Park. When crews arrived, they located heavy fire in the back of the single-family residential house and saw a female civilian standing on an extension of the second floor roof. The fire department said firefighters rescued the woman by extending a ladder and helping her down. The woman was first taken to Euclid Hospital and was later taken to Cleveland MetroHealth Medical Center, where she has since been released. The injured Euclid firefighter was taken to Euclid Hospital. The extent of - and details surrounding - the firefighter's injuries were not immediately available. That firefighter has been released Euclid fire officials said. The fire department said although some of her pets survi... [ more ]         2 FF INJURED IN AUSTRALIAN POWER STATION FIRE Sunday, June 7, 2015  TWO fire fighters and an employee have been injured during a fire at a power station near Port Augusta.The Advertiser understands one of the injured firefighters, a woman in her 40s, was blown backwards by an explosion and hurt her back when she fell. An SA Ambulance spokesman said the woman was taken to Port Augusta Hospital. The spokesman said the Royal Flying Doctor Service was flying the second injured firefighter, a man in his mid 20s, to the Royal Adelaide Hospital for treatment of burns to his face and arms. A Country Fire Service spokesman said four people in total had been injured, including two employees. mergency services including Country Fire Service and Metropolitan Fire Service, were called to the blaze on Power Station Rd, Port Paterson just before 11am. The fire started near one of the boiler areas at the station, about 9km south of Port Augusta. A CFS spokesman said crews were still fighting the blaz... [ more ]         FDNY FIREFIGHTER TO RECEIVE TOP FIREHOUSE HERO AWARD, OTHER HEROIC FIREFIGHTERS TO BE RECOGNIZED AS WELL Sunday, June 7, 2015  Firefighter Dominick Muschello, FDNY Ladder 157, has been selected as the top winner in the Firehouse Magazine Heroism Awards Program. Muschello will be recognized for his actions on Thursday, July 16, 2015, during the opening ceremony at the Firehouse Expo conference in Baltimore. Muschello is recognized for his bravery during a multiple dwelling fire on Nov. 19, 2014. Using the tower ladder bucket as a shield, Muschello rode the ladder through the flames to the third floor where people were reported to be trapped. Muschello searched the hoarded apartment and located a victim whom he pulled over the debris to the window. Shielding the victim from flashover-like conditions, Muschello removed the victim to the tower ladder bucket with the help of a fellow firefighter and then down to the street. Muschello then returned to the third floor with another firefighter to search for additional victims. They located a second victim in the hallway and removed that victim throu... [ more ]         WATCH THAT HOSE LINE! PA FIREFIGHTER INJURED Sunday, June 7, 2015   A Charleroi firefighter was injured while operating at a house fire on Friday. The fire broke out just before 1930 in the 1200 block of Lookout. Firefighters from Fallowfield Township, Lock 4, Monessen 1, Stockdale and Bentleyville assisted Charleroi firefighters. Tom Santoro, first assistant fire chief for Charleroi, said the firefighter broke his leg when he tripped over an LDH supply line. He was flown by emergency helicopter to a Pittsburgh hospital. Santoro said the first floor of the house was heavily damaged, and the second floor was moderately damaged. No one was home when the fire began.         FIREFIGHTERS INJURY FEDERAL LAWSUITS RE: TOWER LADDER FAILURE IN GEORGIA 2014 Sunday, June 7, 2015  The Hall County (Georgia) Firefighters severely injured during a July 22 2014 training incident have begun filing lawsuits in U.S. District Court for damages against the ladder truck manufacturer, Sutphen. Will Griffin, T.J. Elliott and Stephen Jackson fell 44 feet in a ladder truck during a training exercise at the Allen Creek Training Center. Elliott’s suit, filed through attorney Shane Lazenby, states that after being rushed to local hospitals, the three firefighters “began the long process of recovering from exceedingly painful and debilitating injuries that continues to present day.” Lazenby said the other firefighters involved in the accident intend to file suit as well. Elliott, according to the suit, suffered multiple fractures to his face, fractured teeth and dislocation of his right shoulder, among other injuries. “Plaintiff TJ Elliott continues to suffer from the residual effects of the injuries he suffered as a r... [ more ]   "SMART INTERSECTIONS" IMPROVE FF SAFETY IN INDIANA WISHTV Video Saturday, June 6, 2015   The city of Greenwood is getting a new state-of-the-art system to make the roads safer.The GPS system will change the lights at intersections as fire trucks and police cars come through. It’s called an Opticom system, which basically allows emergency vehicles and the traffic lights to communicate. And it’s being installed on all 37 intersections with stoplights in Greenwood. When Greenwood firefighters get an emergency call and hit the road, they often run into traffic that blocks the road entirely. “They get stacked up with vehicles all they have is a fire engine behind them with lights, sirens, airhorns, and they have no place to go,” said Greenwood Fire Chief James Sipes. Many roads through the city are two-lane and traffic slows down emergency response vehicles. But that is about to change with a new GPS system for the fire trucks and all other public safety vehicles. “As they approach t... [ more ]         APPARATUS CRASH IN OMAHA Omaha.com Video Saturday, June 6, 2015  A minivan and a Omaha Fire Department engine on its way to a call collided Friday in Millard, police said. No one was critically injured. Click Here! As it drove east on Harrison Street, the engine, operated by Firefighter Darin Kelsey, 48, drove through the intersection at 132nd Street under a red traffic signal after other motorists had yielded, Sgt. Chuck Casey, a commander in the traffic unit, said. As the engine began to clear the intersection about 5:30 p.m., the southbound 2001 Dodge Caravan drove through under a green light, Casey said. Its driver, Melissa Meir, 35, of Omaha did not see or hear the engine or its lights or sirens, Casey said. The firefighters were responding to a vehicle collision on Interstate 80, near Harrison Street, in which there was an injury. Meir's ankle was injured and she reported chest pain, Casey said. She was taken to the Nebraska Medical Center, as was a passenger, her 8-year-old daughter, who suffered an uppe... [ more ]         MAN WRECKS STOLEN CA FIRE ENGINE Saturday, June 6, 2015   John Hayes Waddell Jr. had the ride of a lifetime, and he wasn't going to give it up easily.Waddell, a 58-year-old transient who authorities said was behind the wheel of a stolen San Bernardino County Fire Department fire engine, left a trail of mayhem in his wake early Friday, June 5, before Redlands police finally captured him. Waddell hit vehicles in three separate crashes before attempting to ram a patrol car, the Redlands Police Department said. "He's crazy. This guy has no regard for anybody," said Matt Porterfield, an assistant manager at the Circle K at 765 W. Redlands Blvd., after watching the store's surveillance video that showed the fire engine jumping a curb and striking a customer's parked car. The incident began about 4 a.m. when someone stole the engine typically used on brush fires from Redlands Ford, where it was being serviced. Employees there said they do not leave keys with vehicles. The Fire Department refe... [ more ]         SD LODD FF WAS DRUNK AT TIME OF FIRE Friday, June 5, 2015  The volunteer firefighter who died in a Brandon fire in April had a blood alcohol level more than twice the legal limit to drive, authorities said Friday.Valley Springs volunteer firefighter Steve Ackerman, 38, had a blood alcohol level of 0.189, according to a toxicology test. The April 12 fire also killed homeowner David Smith, 47. Both men died of smoke inhalation in the fire that was determined to be accidental. "Whether this contributed to the circumstances of his death is clearly open to speculation," Brandon Police Chief David Kull said. "Though his judgment to respond to this fire in the first was place was arguably flawed, we have to remember Steve was the one who made the correct call to evacuate the structure, and that the two firefighters that were on the entry team with him inside the burning home were able to exit uninjured." The Valley Springs Fire Department was among the first responders to the house fire in Brandon at about 10 p.m. ... [ more ]         LA FF INJURED AT BRUSH FIRE Friday, June 5, 2015  A firefighter suffered minor injuries while battling a fast-moving brush fire Thursday afternoon in the Santa Susana Pass, just west of Porter Ranch.The fire broke out along the 118 Freeway at Topanga Canyon Boulevard at about noon and spread uphill to nearby Rocky Peak, burning four acres. Two of the westbound lanes of the 118 Freeway were temporarily closed, but the fire never posed a threat to buildings or roadways. A total of about 100 firefighters knocked down the fire in about an hour. No evacuations were ordered. The injured firefighter was taken to a local hospital for treatment, according to Los Angeles County fire Inspector Randall Wright.         OH FF WHO COLLAPSED MOVED TO HOSPICE Friday, June 5, 2015  A Williamsburg Township fire lieutenant who collapsed on duty over the weekend is being moved to hospice.Lt. David Knapke's heart stopped for 20 minutes Saturday night, just after he and firefighters from Williamsburg and Mt. Orab finished putting out a fire on Greenbush West Road. His fellow first responders performed CPR at the scene and used a defibrillator five times to get his heart pumping again. Knapke, 55, has been at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center since being flown there Saturday night. He woke up a few times, the fire department said, but didn't respond much. "Last night David had his MRI," the fire department posted on its Facebook page Thursday. "Today we learned that the results of the MRI are not what we hoped for." Knapke's move to hospice is what he wanted, the department wrote. The Williamsburg Township Fire Department will be raising money for Knapke and his family this weekend at the June in Olde ... [ more ]         TAKING FIRE PREVENTION SERIOUSLY? FIRE OFFICERS CONVICTED IN FIRE THAT LEFT 242 DEAD Thursday, June 4, 2015  Two firefighters from the southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sur were convicted Wednesday in connection with a January 2013 nightclub fire that killed 242 people. A retired colonel who commanded the fire department in the town of Santa Maria at the time and a captain were each sentenced to one year in jail by a military court for having granted the local Kiss nightclub a permit to operate, though it lacked the necessary fire prevention system. Six other firefighters were acquitted, though the eight defendants still face trial in a civilian court, along with the nightclub's two owners and two members of the band Gurizada Fandangueira, which was performing at the club. The fire struck with the nightclub packed with university students. Investigators allege that a member of the band caused the fire when he lit a flare that set sound-proof foam on the ceiling ablaze, while factors including faulty fire extinguishers and a lack of fire escapes contributed t... [ more ]         NINE FFs INJURED IN NEW YORK STATE FIRE & REKINDLE Thursday, June 4, 2015  Nine fighters were injured as the New Rochelle Fire Department responded to a stubborn house fire that largely gutted a house on Paine Avenue in New Rochelle. The fire was called in by a neighbor shortly before 10:30 a.m. and was not declared "under control" until 5:30 a.m. Several of the injured firefighters were taken to Montefiore New Rochelle Hospital: one firefighter fell down stairs, another was struck when part of a ceiling fell on his head, another hurt his hand and wrist. The fourth firefighter was treated for smoke inhalation at the scene. The house was under renovation and unoccupied. Smoke drifted across New Rochelle where it was reported up to two miles away from the location of the fire.          INDIANA BATTALION CHIEF STRUCK WHILE RESPONDING Wednesday, June 3, 2015  During the morning hours of 6-3-15 Battalion Chief 5 was struck while responding to a crash on the US 20 bypass east of Elm Road. While making a U-Turn to get into the opposite lanes due to the direction of the crash the vehicle was struck by a motorcyclist who was not paying attention to traffic. All red lights/sirens were activated at the time of the crash. All parties involved are ok and the motorcycle driver was cited for: disregarding an emergency vehicle, driving while suspended and not having a motor cycle endorsement.           Prev1234Next        1        2        3        4        5        6        7        8        9        10        11        12        13        14        15        16        17        18        19        20        21        22        23        24        25        26        27        28        29        30        31        32        33        34        35        36        37        38        39        40        41        42        43        44        45        46        47        48        49        50        51        52        53        54        55        56        57        58        59        60        61        62        63        64        65        66        67        68        69        70        71        72        73        74        75        76        77        78        79        80        81       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