Firefighter Close Calls

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) – Investigators are trying to determine the cause of an “intense” two-alarm blaze at a business and warehouse in Kailua on Friday afternoon that left a responding firefighter injured. Some 42 firefighters were called to the scene about 4 p.m. Video posted online showed flames shooting out of the Puna Noni Naturals store […]

On 3/18/1951 Sparky® the Fire Dog was born; Happy Birthday Sparky!  “The legend of Sparky the Fire Dog began with a small Dalmatian puppy sitting outside a fence surrounding a school. The Dalmatian pup loved to watch the children at play. One day he decided to follow two of the children home. Tired from the […]

On 3/17/1631 the 1st fire prevention legislation in the United States was passed in Cambridge, Massachusetts; the ordinance banned thatched roofs and wooden chimneys. On 3/17/1899 the Windsor Hotel in New York, New York was destroyed by a fire that killed almost 90 people. “On St Patrick’s Day 1899, while people were gathered below to […]

Two Dallas firefighters were injured Thursday morning battling a fire at the beleaguered site of the former Valley View Center in Far North Dallas. Dallas firefighters responded to the old mall, which occupies 30 acres at the corner of LBJ Freeway and Preston Road, shortly after 4:30 a.m. They encountered “heavy smoke and fire conditions,” Dallas Fire-Rescue spokesman Jason […]

Philadelphia firefighters contained a multi-floor blaze at a historic Philly hotel that started burning on Wednesday morning. Crews arrived on the scene shortly after 10:15 a.m., said Fire Department spokesperson Kathy Matheson, to extinguish a fire that broke out at Hotel Carlyle on Poplar and 15th Streets near the edge of North Philly. It took […]

CHESTERFIELD, Va. (WWBT) -Eight people in Chesterfield have been displaced, and one firefighter was injured after a massive fire tore through their home Wednesday afternoon. Fire crews were called to a townhouse in the 2700 block of Creekview Drive just before 3:30 p.m. on March 15. When they arrived, the flames had spread to the […]

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (WBKO) – A Richardsville firefighter was injured Tuesday night during a house fire call. The Richardsville Fire Department was called to a house fire in the 8900 block of Richardsville Road on Tuesday around 9 p.m. Fire officials say the structure was far from the roadway and difficult to reach with larger […]

On 3/16/1993 around 4:00 p.m. a Chicago, Illinois fire killed nineteen residents at 1432 N. LaSalle Street, the Paxton Hotel, an apartment building for low-income people, that spread to several rooms and filled corridors with combustion products in the four-story Type III construction, masonry building, with wood stud lath and plaster non-bearing walls, a steel […]

Two people suffered burns and smoke inhalation early Wednesday morning when their home caught fire near Osceola. Penn Township Fire officials say the home in the 56-thousand block of Greenlawn Avenue sustained significant damage. One firefighter suffered a leg injury and was treated and released. One of the two people inside the house at the […]

A falling tree slammed into a fire truck in Walnut Creek during Tuesday’s powerful windstorm, nbcbayarea.com reported. The tree came down along Ygnacio Valley Road, shutting down multiple lanes of traffic and damaging the Contra Costa County Fire Protection District engine, the report said. The firefighters are OK, but the truck will need repairs, according to […]

On 3/15/1923 seven women and two men perish in a fire following a gas explosion in the basement at the Almshouse in Angelica, New York. “The Allegheny County Almshouse was on the outskirts of this village and opened in 1831. New York State passed a law that required each county to open a poorhouse. At […]

On 3/14/1981 an early morning fire at the Royal Beach home hotel killed nineteen and fourteen others, including two police officers, were injured at 5523 North Kenmore Avenue in the Edgewater neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. The fire started in the first-floor laundry room and spread to a nearby stairway trapping many of the sixty-two occupants […]

RICHMOND HILL, Queens (WABC) — At least two firefighters suffered minor injuries while fighting a fire at an E-bike shop in Queens on Monday. The fire was reported at 102-44 Jamaica Ave by 104th Street in Richmond Hill just after 2:30 p.m. The blaze was under control by 3:30 p.m. and the injured firefighters were taken […]

A firefighter was injured when a car ran over a hose while crews were putting out a structure fire in Tarzana Monday morning. The fire started around 5 a.m. at Synthetic Grass Depot, in the 19300 block of West Ventura Boulevard, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department. Due to the location of the nearest […]

Rochester, N.Y. – Units are currently battling a large warehouse fire on the city’s west side. Crews responded to the report on Otis Street around 5:45 p.m. Once there, units found some pallets that had caught fire, resulting in the fire spreading rapidly and consuming the entire warehouse. RFD says three walls and the roof […]

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WCHS) — UPDATED: 4:15 p.m. 3/12/23 A veteran firefighter was injured while battling a blaze at a vacant Charleston residence Sunday morning. The Charleston Fire Department reports a portion of the building’s second floor collapsed, pinning the firefighter under debris. Capt. John Hastings, an 18-year veteran of the Charleston Fire Department, was taken to […]

On 3/13/1898 in New York City, New York, in the Bowery Mission, a three-alarm fire killed eleven at 105 Bowery, a lodging house that had “a cheap restaurant” in the basement, a “mission” on the ground floor, and the “four upper floors were fitted up as a cheap lodging house, with accommodations for 150 males […]

By WKDZ: A Pembroke home was destroyed and three people were injured including a firefighter in a fire on Howard Dickerson Road early Saturday morning. Pembroke Fire Department Chief Nick Belair says the home was fully engulfed in flames when they arrived just before 6 a.m. Two people were reportedly asleep in the home when […]

On 3/12/1883 around 11:00 p.m., eleven lodgers died nine miles from the city of Deadwood, North Dakota at Brownsville Wood Camp on the Homestake Railway line when a fire destroyed the one-story-long, cheaply constructed shack of pitch pine, building with sleeping loft, accessible only by a ladder. Four others were seriously injured. “The fire undoubtedly […]

By Seguin Times: A Guadalupe County firefighter was injured as crews from several area fire departments battled a large blaze that damaged a home Thursday. Debris from the roof hit the Guadalupe County Fire/Rescue firefighter in the head causing him to seek treatment, Guadalupe County Assistant Fire Marshal Bryce Houlton said. “The firefighter was transported […]