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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 51 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) CA WILDLAND FF LODD - KILLED BY FALLING TREE Monday, August 10, 2015  A wildland firefighter was killed Saturday while helping to battle the so-called Sierra Fire near Lake Tahoe in Northern California, according to the U.S. Forest Service. An agency statement indicated that the firefighter was struck by a falling tree around 5:30 p.m. in a remote area between the Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit and the Eldorado National Forest.Cheva Gabor, speaking on behalf of the U.S Forest Service, told NBC Bay Area that the firefighter was in the initial attack phase on Echo Summit when the accident occurred. The still unidentified firefighter — whose gender is also being withheld until next of kin have been notified — succumbed to the injuries, Gabor said. Clear the Shelters Animal Adoption Event on August 15 "We are very saddened this morning," she said. "When we have a loss like this, it's devastating." A second firefighter, who was also injured during the same incident, was treated and released from a local hospital. Further details were... [ more ]         Number of Ground Zero responders with 9/11-linked cancers hits 3,700 Sunday, August 9, 2015  The rising toll of Ground Zero responders and others afflicted with 9/11-linked cancers has hit 3,700. The staggering tally of those suffering cancers certified by the feds as 9/11-related includes FDNY members (1,100), cops and other Ground Zero responders (2,134), and survivors such as downtown workers and residents (467). Many have more than one type of cancer. The FDNY’s chief medical officer, Dr. David Prezant, said over 2,100 firefighters and EMS personnel have retired on disability with World Trade Center-related illnesses, mostly lung disease and cancer, since 9/11. “Due to the physical nature of their jobs, these illnesses have had a tremendous impact on our membership and their families,” he said in a statement. The grim toll includes 109 FDNY responders who have died from WTC-linked illnesses, 44 of them from cancer.FDNY Deputy Chief Tom Riley will be forced to retire because of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in his eye. Research has found thyroid, colon, p... [ more ]         FF ESCAPES BURNING TANKER IN CA Sunday, August 9, 2015  A firefighter is lucky to be alive after his truck was destroyed by a grass fire just outside the city of Chowchilla. The now-contained fire happened just after 2 p.m. Saturday near Road 16 and Avenue 24. The fire quickly grew out of control, engulfing five acres and a water tender in its path. "The fire came at him from the rear where the bamboo is overgrown and burned toward the truck, got to the rear of the truck and then the water truck got stuck in the sand," said Chowchilla Fire Chief Harry Turner.The firefighter narrowly escaped the flames after climbing out of the now-incinerated driver's side of the truck. Officials and bystanders alike say the sandy and dry terrain made the firefight challenging. "Another truck got stuck right by the house, and a tow truck came over to pull him out of the way," said Arnaldo Rua, a neighbor. Even the tow truck had a hard time getting the water tender out of the area. Fire crews say the truck is a total loss. "Talking with the ... [ more ]   A TRUE WTF OUT OF PITTSBURGH Sunday, August 9, 2015  Pittsburgh firefighters gained a new tool this week that’s proven to save lives, but then came some confusion about whether they could continue to use it. Narcan, or Naxolone, is a medicine used to treat people who are suffering drug overdoses. Health officials have been pushing to make it more widely available. Pittsburgh firefighters had it, were told to give it back (apparently mistakenly), and now have it again. “Don’t take away life-saving tools from the first responders who are out there every day,” said Ralph Sicuro, president of the Pittsburgh Firefighters Union Local #1. Sicuro says firefighters were trained on how to use Narcan, began carrying it this week, and Sicuro says it was put to use Thursday night: “There was a call for an unconscious female in an alley. Our twenty-four truck which is housed on the South Side responded, was able to administer Narcan and saved a life.” But on Friday came a memo from the acting fire chief, telling crews ... [ more ]         NM FF FALLS FROM LADDER Sunday, August 9, 2015  An Albuquerque firefighter was injured Saturday afternoon when he fell from a ladder while attacking a house fire in the northwest part of the city.The firefighter injured his knee when he fell less than 10 feet from a ladder leading to an attic inside the home, a fire department spokesman said. The fire began early this afternoon and firefighters arrived at the two-story home on Rio Cebolla Court around 2:45 p.m. They quickly attacked the fire, which had spread to the home's roof. The owner told firefighters that he burning weeds and caught a tree on fire and, later, the house. None of the occupants was injured.         2 FDNY FFs INJURED AT QUEENS FIRE Sunday, August 9, 2015  Three people were injured, including two firefighters, when a three-alarm fire gutted two homes in Queens early Sunday, Fire Department officials said.The blaze tore through the basement, first floor and roof of a two-story brick home before spreading to an adjacent house on 52nd Ave. near 70th St. in Maspeth at 2:50 a.m., authorities said. Flames could be seen leaping from the rooftop as firefighters climbed on to the building to battle it. "I looked outside and there were flames going up, they were shooting up into the air about a good 10 feet," said neighbor Rich Dalessio, 59. "Look at this thing just going up in flames," he said as he watched the 138 responding firefighters knock the fire down. All the residents from both homes were able to escape the inferno, but it didn't soothe the immediate ache of watching their possessions burn, one neighbor said. "When I came out the family was crying, they were sad, and screaming, "C... [ more ]         FF INJURED AT CLEVELAND MATTRESS WAREHOUSE FIRE Saturday, August 8, 2015  A firefighter suffered minor injuries early Saturday battling a fire at an East Side mattress warehouse.Fire spokesman Larry Gray said a firefighter spotted the blaze about 4:30 a.m. while driving back to the station from a West Side fire. The fire at the Appliance and Mattress Warehouse caused extensive damage to the brick building on East 79th between Central and Lucia avenues. No one was inside the building at the time. Gray said investigators are trying to determine what caused the fire.         2 BOSTON JAKES INJURED AT FIRE Saturday, August 8, 2015  A three-alarm blaze ripped through an apartment building in Boston Friday afternoon, injuring two firefighters and displacing 40 residents.According to the Boston Fire Department, the blaze broke out at a brick building on 6 Waverly Street in the city’s Roxbury section around 12:30 p.m. Waverly Street is located just two miles from the Jamaica Plain line. Crews were able to successfully extinguish the fire after a brief period of time at the scene. More than half of the apartment building sustained some sort of damage after the fire started on the top floor and spread to the roof. Fire officials say eight of the buildings 16 apartments were damaged by the blaze. Two firefighters suffered shoulder injuries and were transported to the hospital for treatment. No residents were injured.         FF KILLED IN TAIWAN BY DRUNK DRIVER Saturday, August 8, 2015  Typhoon Soudelor lashed Taiwan on Saturday, downing trees, traffic lights and power lines, and leaving at least four dead, four missing and dozens injured. The typhoon brought strong winds and heavy rainfall as it made landfall early Saturday and was expected to move into the Taiwan Strait and onto mainland China later in the day. A total of 64 people have been injured and almost two million households were without electricity as the powerful storm left streets strewn with fallen trees, the government's Central News Agency reported. An 8-year-girl and her mother died when they were swept out to sea Thursday from a beach on the east coast, the agency said. The girl's twin sister remains missing. Other casualties included a firefighter who was killed and another injured after being hit by a drunk driver as they attempted to move a fallen tree in the island's south, the news agency said. The centre of the storm made landfall in eastern Taiwan at 4:40 a.m. Saturday (2040 ... [ more ]         LODD UPDATE: Hartford firefighter killed in fire got stuck on furniture WTNH Video Saturday, August 8, 2015   A Hartford firefighter killed in a house fire in October 2014 became entangled in furniture and couldn’t get out of the building when an evacuation order was given, according to a fire department report released Friday.“During that evacuation process, firefighter Kevin Bell became entangled in a piece of furniture and wasn’t able to extricate himself and get out of building,” said Hartford Assistant Fire Chief Scott Brady. The report depicts a hectic scene. Within minutes, several firefighters inside the two-story structure were hit with a powerful water stream, knocking the helmet and breathing mask off of one firefighter, who ev... [ more ]         FIRE DEPARTMENT CITED IN FIREFIGHTER LINE OF DUTY DEATH Saturday, August 8, 2015  The Inwood (Long Island, NY) Fire Department violated federal safety and training standards when it allowed a firefighter to enter a burning house in December without an assigned partner, a state report investigating the firefighter's death has found.Only a mayday issued later alerted authorities that Joseph Sanford Jr. was missing in action, according to the state Labor Department's Public Employee Safety and Health Bureau, which monitors volunteer fire departments. Sanford, 43, and four other Inwood firefighters rushed to the Woodmere blaze before dawn on Dec. 19, but the men did not give the Woodmere incident commander their "accountability tags" -- ID tags used in roll call when firefighters are ordered out of collapsing buildings and other dangerous conditions, the six-page report said.          RIP   APPARATUS STRUCK IN IDAHO - NO FFs INJURED Friday, August 7, 2015  A woman was taken to a hospital Thursday afternoon after crashing into the back of a fire engine on Idaho 27 south of Burley.The engine, from the North Rural Cassia County Fire District truck, was responding to a semi truck hauling straw that caught on fire, firefighters at the scene said. The semi pulled to the side of the road about 725 South on Idaho 27. The fire engine arrived and as firefighters were putting out the fire, a woman in a Chevrolet Silvarado crashed into the back of the engine. Firefighters said the driver failed to slow down and was driving through smoke. Multiple fire departments are still working on the fire, including Albion, Declo, Oakley and Minidoka County. A reporter at the scene said piles of straw were still burning on the side of the road about 4 p.m.         2 FFs SUFFER SMOKE INHALATION IN OHIO Friday, August 7, 2015   Several people, including firefighters, were transported to area hospitals Thursday evening after a fire broke out inside a three-story, 12-unit apartment building.Jackson Fire Chief Tracy Hogue said one resident was taken to a hospital for smoke inhalation, and four others were treated at the scene. Two township firefighters were transported to a hospital due to the heavy smoke. Another two were treated on scene. None of the injuries appeared serious, the chief said.An unspecified number of residents were displaced Thursday night. It might be days or weeks before they can return to gather salvageable belongings or stay the night, Hogue said.Firefighters had to move quickly upon arrival just after 6 p.m. at Yorkshire Apartments, 3616 Wales Ave. NW, according to Hogue. Smoke poured out of a handful of windows from a basement-level unit on the south side of the mostly brick structure.“We pulled several people from the hallway of the building, and one person came down a ladder ... [ more ]         COPS TRYING TO BE FIREFIGHTERS, ALONG WITH ONE FF INJURED AT CHICAGO BLAZE NBCChicago Video Thursday, August 6, 2015   Two Chicago police officers and a firefighter were injured in a blaze on Chicago’s South Side early Thursday morning. The fire was reported just before 4 a.m. in the 12400 block of South State Street in the city's West Pullman neighborhood. Plant That Can Cause Blindness Found in Midwest Officials said two police officers, a 30-year-old and a 31-year-old man, were taken to Metro South Hospital for smoke inhalation while a firefighter was reported have had minor injuries at the scene. The firefighter refused treatment, according to the Chicago Fire Department. The police officers arrived at the scene before fire crews and ran into the burning home to check if anyone was inside. The blaze took more than hour to put out. Neighbors said a man and his children live in the home, but it was not clear if anyone was home at the time of the fire. Cutler on Bears Training Camp: 'Today Was a Bad Day For Us' The cause of the fire remained under i... [ more ]         FF FALLS THRU ROOF AT SAN DIEGO FIRE Thursday, August 6, 2015  A fire captain fell through the roof while battling a restaurant fire on Miramar Road Wednesday, which forced a worker to be hospitalized. Smoke filled the air above the Bombay Grill just before 10 a.m. The restaurant is located north of MCAS Miramar just west of Interstate 15.As San Diego Fire-Rescue crews climbed on top of the building to put holes in for ventilation, SDFD Capt. Vadid Cisneros fell through the roof. Officials estimate he fell approximately 15 to 20 feet to the floor below. He walked out of the building on his own, officials said. At the moment, Cisneros doesn’t appear to have any injuries but was transported to a nearby hospital to be evaluated, according to fire officials. The only worker inside the business was also taken to the hospital for non-life threatening injuries. Battalion Chief Mike Finnerty said that after a fall like that, Cisneros could be in shock and unaware of any pain. This type of incident is an i... 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