The Coast Guard Cutter Sundew’s firefighters undergo some extremely harsh training at the Maritime Academy of Toledo, Ohio. Note they use OBAs, which are smaller and are worn in front of the firefighter unlike SCBAs. Because of space constraints on ships their equipment seems considerably less redundant than the ones I use.
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Patients were being evacuated from the Royal Marsden Hospital today after a blaze broke out on the top floor of the building, London Fire Brigade said.
Eight fire engines and 40 firefighters are battling the blaze on the Fulham Road, central London.
The emergency services were called to the hospital at 1.20pm.
All patients and staff at […]
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The fire on Willoughby Ave., Brooklyn. Image courtesy of the Daily News.
Nearly three years after two New York City firefighters jumped from a burning building and plunged to their deaths, a 24-year FDNY veteran yesterday became the first to use a widely hailed safety device to escape from a Brooklyn house fire that almost engulfed […]
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Thick black smoke billowed from a fire Wednesday in Vice President Dick Cheney’s suite of offices in the historic Eisenhower Executive Office Building next to the White House.
Cheney’s office was damaged by smoke and water from fire hoses, White House spokesman Scott Stanzel said. The vice president was not in the building at the time; […]
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Dispatched for a dwelling fire, advising of numerous calls. Squirt-36 arrived reporting heavy fire blowing out the 2nd floor front of a 2 story multiple occupancy residence. Crews from Squirt-36 lead off with an 1″ 3/4 which was followed up with a 2nd line. Ladder-26 took to the roof for ventilation. Photos courtesy of Brian […]
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Woonsocket companies arriving on scene were confronted with a heavy smoke condition and after ventilating.
