Photo of the Day, September 7, 2011
Hundreds of families have been left homeless after a wind-fueled wildfire swept through Central Texas. More than 1,000 homes were destroyed, and 5,000 residents evacuated, as the flames spread yesterday to cover more than 25,000 acres. Firefighters were last night hoping for a drop in the winds, the remnants of Tropical Storm Lee, so they [...]
Firefighting planes have perhaps been too long on job
Smoke plumes from the Wallow fire fill the sky in Luna, New Mexico, on Monday. Photo courtesy of AP.
With wildfire season starting early and fires already raging across Arizona, the U.S. Forest Service is confronting a longtime problem that many inside and outside the agency think needs an immediate fix: The large tanker planes leased [...]
Photo of the Day, January 22, 2011
On Wednesday, January 12, 2011 at 3:04 AM, units of the San Jose Fire Department responded to a reported structure fire at 450 Drake Street near downtown San Jose. Photo from Firefighter-EMT.com regular group contributor smokeshowing.
30 Years Ago Today: MGM Grand Hotel Fire, November 21, 1980
Don Polke / Las Vegas Sun / Sun File Photo
Precisely 30 years ago today, at 7 in the morning of November 21, 1980, a fire at the luxury hotel and casino MGM Grand hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada, killed 84 people. The majority of the fatalities were due to smoke inhalation, caused in part by [...]
Updated: Deadly high-rise fire in Shanghai
Chinese state-run news agency Xinhua is reporting that 53 individuals have died in a massive high-rise building fire in downtown Shanghai. 70 individuals are hospitalized, 13 of them critically.
Photo courtesy of the Associated Press.
The blaze broke out at approximately 2 p.m. local time on the scaffolding of the residential high-rise but quickly spread to the [...]
Firefighters sit and watch home burn
Imagine your home catches fire but the local fire department won’t respond, then watches it burn. That’s exactly what happened to a local family tonight.
A local neighborhood is furious after firefighters watched as an Obion County, Tennessee, home burned to the ground.
The homeowner, Gene Cranick, said he offered to pay whatever it would take for [...]
Wildfires in Russia Continue
A firefighter works to extinguish forest fires on the outskirts of the Russian city of Voronezh, July 30, 2010. (REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin) As of Tuesday, the Russian government said 529 major blazes were raging across central Russia, including what the official meteorological service described as a “fiery ring” of 90 suburban peat bog fires encircling Moscow, [...]
May 11, 1985: Bradford Football Disaster
With the World Cup now over and Spain the winner, we thought it may be interesting to highlight a soccer-related fire incident that occurred nearly 25 years ago.
The Bradford City Fire Disaster occurred on Saturday, May 11, 1985 when a flash fire consumed one side of the Valley Parade football stadium in Bradford, England.
The fire [...]
Somerville, MA woman rescued from three-alarm fire
Somerville firefighters rescued a trapped woman and evacuated other occupants from a three-alarm blaze in a triple-decker home near Magoun Square Sunday night.
The blaze broke out shortly before 6:30 p.m. Somerville Fire Chief Kevin Kelleher said efforts to put out the fire at 111 Glenwood Road were complicated when a live electrical wire dropped from [...]
Manchester Airport Fire Exercise Video
The aviation simulator, which was unveiled in November 2006, provides a technologically challenging and realistic training environment for Manchester Airport’s 120-strong team of fire fighters. Located at Manchester’s Category 10 International Airport, the simulator has been designed, built and installed by UK-based Simulation TER ltd.
The huge 280-ton structure is 13.0 metre high, 44 meters long [...]
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