Firefighter Close Calls

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – Fort Wayne firefighters saved one of their own during a fire on the southeast side of the city Thursday night. Crews responded to the kitchen fire in the 2800 block of Stinson Drive around 10:30 p.m. While inside the home, a firefighter had a medical event. Fellow firefighters pulled him […]

MIAMI (WSVN) – A firefighter was injured after battling flames in Miami. On Saturday, around 10 a.m., a fire broke out inside an efficiency near Northwest 59th Terrace and Fifth Avenue. When Miami Fire Rescue crews arrived, they found a single-story home with smoke coming from the back of the building. Officials said the firefighters […]

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) — A Philadelphia firefighter was injured while rescuing several people from a house fire. The blaze started shortly after 6 p.m. Sunday on the 5800 block of Ellsworth Street in Cobbs Creek. Arriving crews found flames coming from the second story of a two-story rowhome. Four people were rescued and taken to nearby hospitals. […]

On 1/30/1976 at 11:30 a.m. an arson fire at the Wincrest Nursing Home, 6326 N. Winthrop Avenue Chicago, Illinois killed twenty-three that started in a wardrobe closet in room 306. The building was occupied by eighty-three residents and a staff of sixteen. The room of origin was completely gutted, and the adjacent corridor sustained moderate […]

A fire broke out Saturday afternoon at a triple decker in South Boston, officials said, injuring one firefighter and leaving four people without a place to live. The Boston Fire Department was called to P Street and found fire on the second and third floors, as well as through the roof, of the mixed occupancy […]

On 1/29/1973 in Pleasantville, New Jersey, just north of Atlantic City, a nursing home fire at “Street’s Rest Home” killed ten and injured six in a two-story wood-frame structure. When firefighters arrived “flames were shooting out of first-story windows.” It is believed the fire began in a linen closet. “The nursing home’s fire alarm, which […]

By Cornelius Frolik, Staff Writer Dayton Daily News Updated Jan 27, 2023 Union VP: ‘If we die for this city, let it be an honorable death, knowing that you have our backs.’ A fire station in West Dayton that has most often been closed for multiple years is being called a safety concern in harsh […]

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) – A Maui firefighter was critically injured Friday after being sucked into a 4-foot wide storm drain in Kihei and swept to sea during heavy rains, officials said. Officials said the firefighter was carried by storm waters approximately 800 yards to where the drain emptied into the ocean. The incident happened near Waiapo […]

On 1/28/1986 the Challenger spacecraft exploded 73 seconds into its flight killing all seven crew members after an O-ring seal in its right solid rocket booster failed. The Challenger disaster occurred over the Atlantic Ocean, in U.S. waters, off the coast of central Florida, at 11:39 a.m. On 1/28/1961 nine Chicago Illinois firefighters died while […]

Statement: The death of Firefighter Barry Martin Publish Date: Friday 27 January 2023 Issued on behalf of Barry Martin’s family. The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service is deeply saddened today to confirm the passing of Firefighter Barry Martin.Interim Chief Officer Ross Haggart said: “It is with profound sadness that I confirm, on behalf of his […]

On 1/27/1967 a fire onboard Apollo 1, the Apollo/Saturn 204 (AS-204) spacecraft, killed Command Pilot Virgil I. “Gus” Grissom, Senior Pilot Ed White, and Pilot Roger B. Chaffee during a training exercise at Launch Complex 34 at Cape Canaveral (Cape Kennedy) Florida. “A NASA review board found a stray spark (probably from damaged wires near […]

From the FDNY Facebook Page: “We received a call this evening around 5 p.m. for a reported fire. We had a six minute response time to the scene. Units quickly went to work, we had a fire on the top floor of 4055 Carpenter Avenue. The fire quickly spread to the cockloft area, which is […]

From the Indianapolis Fire Department Facebook Page:  1:43 PM – Despite an inattentive driver running over the supply line and rendering it useless to firefighters entering the burning structure…firefighters were able to make an initial attack on the blaze at 8040 McFarland Ct. – with tank water and bring it under control before it had […]

LEWISDALE, Md. – Authorities say four people were injured and a firefighter was hurt in a Prince George’s County house fire. The fire was reported just after 10 p.m. in the 2000 block of Woodberry Street in the Lewisdale area. Investigators say four adults were displaced. One firefighter was transported for evaluation. The cause of the fire remains under […]

On 1/26/1969 the Victoria Hotel fire killed thirteen in Dunnville, Ontario. The 63-year-old hotel was destroyed and 3 other buildings in the Niagara Peninsula town were heavily damaged before dawn. “It was reported that forty-three people were in the hotel at the time the fire broke out. Many escaped the building, but it was estimated […]

A fire Wednesday morning at the Harper Square Cooperative residential building, 4850 S. Lake Park Ave., has killed one person and injured at least nine others, Chicago Fire Department officials said. Shortly after 10 a.m. on Jan. 25, a fire broke out on the 15th floor of the Kenwood high-rise’s western side, according to fire department Commissioner […]

Authorities said that a first responder was seriously hurt in a Tuesday fire that also destroyed their Perry County home. The fire broke out around 2:30 p.m. and quickly went to a second alarm on the 100 block of Pine Hill Road in Spring Township, according to dispatch logs and the Landisburg Volunteer Fire Department. […]

On 1/25/1865 three Buffalo, New York died on a bitterly cold morning, at a major fire that destroyed a block of buildings, including stores and a rambling five-story hotel. “As gale force winds threatened to spread the fire into other blocks, a decision was made to blow up several buildings to create a firebreak. The […]

UPDATE: A firefighter critically injured in the Jenners building blaze in Edinburgh has been named. Barry Martin, 38, was one of five firefighters who suffered injuries tackling the flames at the former department store on Monday. The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service have confirmed that a member of the fire crew tackling the Jenners incident is in […]

On 1/24/1908 a total of twenty-two firefighters were injured and three killed in a Baltimore, Maryland three-alarm fire in a six-story brick foundry. Heavy fire was found on the third floor. “Shortly after firefighters’ efforts began on the roaring blaze, a wall had collapsed without warning, burying up to 30 firefighters and destroying Truck 1’s […]