Scotland W/F 04-13-11

Scotland Fire w/MA dispatched to 23 Decker Hill Rd for a Barn fire. The first in firefighter reported that the "HOUSE" was going end to end, not the barn. Heavy fire consumed the home and the building collapsed on the "A,B & C" corner with minutes of arrival. A indoor pool to the rear slowed crews operating to the rear addition do to safety concerns. Tanker were called in and used until several draft sites were in operation. The fire was under control in about 1.5 hours, Local and state FMO's are investigating the cause.

Full set of photos here

Baltic ET-124 at Draft site 1Canterbury's ET at Draft Site #2

Detroit MI, Still Alarm 04-02-11

Detroit Fire transmitted a Still Alarm for 4846 Tarnow for a Garage fire, We were about 3 mile's down the road and decided to take it in. We found a one car garage with heavy smoke coming from the building. Engine 34 was first to arrive and pull their Bundle load and lay out to the hydrant. A ladder company pulled a red line from the opposite street. The fire was contained to the garage.

Lisbon Brush fire 04-10-11

Mid afternoon, Lisbon Fire was called to the area of Rt-169 and Rt-12 for a brush fire. This is a large, dense forest area with tight limited access roads. The total acreage burnt I am unsure of, I never saw the whole area and I heard reports of 4 acres to 15 acres from someone in the CMD structure. I would guess there was at least 70 acres in this area. All manpower has to be brought in by pick-up or ATV as accessing the fire was a mile and half away from any road..

Most of the transportation vehicles either stalled going up the steep hills or the UTV's would run out of gas to get to the fire. Water supply was portable pumps drafting from various locations within the woods (ie swamps,streams) alot of dead trees and brush made for a large fire load. the wind didn't help things either. a few high tension power poles were damaged during the fire. The fire got deep seated in the trees and roots, the scene was turned over to DEP around 19:00hrs
( Shane Dupuis)

Units on scene Lisbon -ET-254,Service-154 with ATV, Forestry-154, Rescue-554, Engine-154, Tanker-154 Baltic -Forestry -124, Service-124 with the ATV, Rescue-124 Jewett City - ET-156 Laurel Hill- Squad-66 with UTV Griswold - Eng-155, Forestry-155, ATV Taftville - ET-22, Squad-2 Plainfield - Forestry-195, Forestry-295(UTV)
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New London W/F w/special call 04-10-11

New London fire transmitted a working fire for a 2.5 wood frame, They encountered heavy fire condition at the front door with fire on the first and 2nd floor. Battalion 1 requested C-21 for FAST as all New London companies operated this fire. NLFD brought this fire under control in about 30min. This fire is under investigation by NLFMO More photos and short video here

http://www.newlondonfirefightersunion.org/

Detroit MI, Box Alarm 04-02-11

Detroit Fire, Dispatch units from Battalion 6 to the area of Barker & Cadillac for a dwelling fire, fire due company's found heavy fire conditions and Dumped the monitor into a vacant dwelling, with out putting a dent in the flames. Heavy fire took hold of the holed of the dwelling. The fire was allowed to burn until the light pole burst into flames and the build next door stated to smoke. in about 20 mins the dwelling ended up on the ground.

Detroit MI, Box Alarm 04-01-11

Detroit Fire transmitted the Box on this home, first due found heavy fire conditions one the front of the building. Fire due engine dumped their monitor to knockdown the heavy fire. Crews had all the spot fires in-check in a short time. One lady stated she was watching TV and the whole front of the house went up in flames in seconds. I do not know if it was her house or not. Several fire bombing were accruing around the city in a short time.

Detroit MI, Box Alarm 04-01-11

Detroit fire dispatched a Box for a dwelling fire in the area of Harding & Schomaker, Engine 41 found two dwellings involved with the primary fire at 5238 Harding. Engine 41 transmitted, stretching on the dwelling. One of Detroit's size up for a working fire. The Battalion updated with two Dwellings going asking for a 4th due engine for RIT. Crew went to work on both dwelling at the same time one had minor extension as the other has two floors of fire. In about 30 mins both dwelling were under control.

Detroit MI, Box Alarm 04-01-11

Detroit fire Transmitted the Box for 4515 Holcomb w/Reports of people trapped. First due updated as companies Stretching and people trapped. Crews removed the people and knocked down the fire in a few mins.

Detroit MI, Box Alarm 03-31-11

Detroit Fire "1st Battalion" responded to City Recycling INC. at 1906 Mack RD. As we followed the header in from 10 miles out, Detroit fire was operating a ladder and tower on the pile of scrap metal. They operated for about 8hrs.

Coming Soon, Detroit trip 2011

Over the next week I will be posting 11 incidents, During the 4 nights and 5 days over 30+ fires occurred in one of the largest city's in the USA. We managed to film 11 of the incidents, others were out before arrival or were out of our coverage area. The Detroit firefighters operate under extreme conditions with very limited resources and do one hell of a job. I hope to give them justice with my coverage. This was my 2nd trip a little slower then the last, but DFD members tell us thing have not begun to get crazy "YET" for this year, but the weather is changing. For the Detroit firefighters, Stay safe in this years battle.

Homeward bound

No more updates from the Rock City. Over the next few days I will be editing the photos and Uploading then to the Blog. The smugmug site will take a while do to the amount of photos and editing time. Thanks for viewing.

I removed all the Detroit updates, Photos from the incidents will be posted soon. Rob

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