130 Years Ago Today: The Origins of the Fire Pole

Posted on April 21st, 2008 by admin

April 21, 1878: Firefighter George Reid, of Engine Company 21 in Chicago, is busy unloading hay for the horses that pull their fire engines. As the story goes, he was on the third floor when an alarm rang, and rather than dashing down the flights of stairs, he took the easiest way: down a binding […]

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The Blaze that Changed Firefighting

Posted on November 23rd, 2007 by admin

Looking back at history, we take a trip to London, November 18, 1987, when a fire broke out in the escalators at King’s Cross station and a total of 30 civilians perished.
“I was based at Stratford fire station in east London. We had just started a 15-hour night shift, when we heard over the radio […]

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Woonsocket companies arriving on scene were confronted with a heavy smoke condition and after ventilating.

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