Red Bank Volunteer Fire Department (NJ) Firefighters battle a house fire on Hudson Street and capture it with a helmet camera. Two families escaped the fire safely prior to firefighters arriving.

Listen as Father/Son firefighting team are on the rig together. The father is on the pump, the son is on the line. “lets go, lets go, Dad this thing is #$@#ing going lets go”…

It looks as though a 1 3/4″ is pulled off the rig first. Not my first pick for a fire like this…

RedBankGreen.com: 

Firefighters described the blaze as one of the fastest-moving they’d seen in years, though they managed to largely confine it to the northern half the structure at number 46. Northwesterly winds pushed heavy smoke to the ground for blocks around.

Here is three videos from the Colorado Firefighters Calendar auditions. It is for a good cause and done in a tasteful way…what more could you ask for. I vote for Rebecca Clark!

More from Rebecca Clark, info from the video:
Every year the Colorado Firefighter Calendar, Inc. produces a calendar full of steamy firefighters where all net proceeds are donated to The Children’s Hospital Burn Center and Burn Camp Program. This year I was fortunate enough to not only participate in the fundraising event but I was chosen as a 2013 calendar model as well. This video is of my interview…the event is broken up into 2 main components, the interview portion and the runway portion.

Links:

• Colorado Firefighters Calendar web site
• Colorado Firefighters Calendar FB page
• News link on the new calendar

Check out this short video of a response by Birmingham’s Bravest to a vacant house fire around 1pm today (as best I can tell).

The video includes a train passing by right in front of the apparatus.

The title of the post is influenced by the comments within the apparatus. Apparently there has been a rash of fires in the Birmingham area recently. Read more here

Check out this video. The fire occurred at the Pike house at Louisiana Tech on Saturday. Three firefighters were injured in the fire.

The story on Shreveporttimes.com states:

Parker said the blaze caused the collapse of the roof, which sent a plume of fire and smoke into the air, and caused some area residents to believe an explosion rocked the house when it was simply the collapsing structure.

You watch the video and be the judge…What do you think it is? A roof collapse, a backdraft, a smoke explosion, or a combination? Additional video of the fire is below.

A building at Georgia and Wilmot Streets in West Palm Beach exploded and burned. The cause of the fire had not been determined. No one was injured.

I am not sure where this video is from, but I thought it was intriguing as to how fast the fire spreads engulfing the lower floor of this apartment complex.

Is that a booster line? The first line off? Maybe that is how they roll…

What line would you pull first?

This is a video of a house fire in Ocean City, New Jersey. The house is well off when firefighters arrive. One firefighter was injured (heat related injury). The fire occurred on Morningside Road. Photos of the fire and more information here

This fire was in Jacksonville, Florida on May 14, 2012 on Cinancy Street. The fire was captured on film by a helmet camera and shared by FDCam.com.

You just can’t win them all can you?

Check out more vids on FDCam.com and their Youtube page. I just wonder when they are going to send me one to try out!

Video info:

Jacksonville, FL
Crews were called for a mid-day structure fire. Fire crews found a large home (approx. 4000sqft) with heavy fire showing from the attic space of the second floor. Initial crews made a search to confirm no one was in the home and secondary units contained first floor fires. After little progress was made units were called out of the building and the fire was darkend down with master streams. Crews were sent back up to contain the fire but were eventually pulled from the home & the fire was contained with defensive tactics.

Two stories I covered in the past have had noteworthy updates this week in the news.

Mom, daughters reunite with rescuers who saved them from dangling car

You might remember the story titled “Firefighters, US Navy Seabees, and luck save a woman and two daughters in daring California rescue”. The link includes a photo and video from the daring rescue. Kelli Groves and her two daughters were dangling off the side of a bridge. Firefighters were assisted by US Navy Seabees who just happened to be traversing the same road and saw the accident. There is another video below.

MSNBC:

The 36-year-old elementary school teacher was reunited with Santa Barbara County firefighter Greg Nuckols and Sgt. Tom Mullen of the California Highway Patrol, when the heroes who talked her through the horrific ordeal made a surprise appearance on TODAY.

Another story updated today includes the case of Seminole County Firefighter Jerry Perdomo

Jerry Perdomo

Prior coverage on Fire Critic here, here, and here. Perdomo was missing for days before his body was found. Even after that, details were slow to emerge.

FirefighterNation.com has the story today about Perdomo’s accused killer being indicted in his murder.

ABIGAIL CURTIS, Bangor Daily NewsPublished Friday, May 18, 2012

BELFAST, Maine – A local man accused of killing a Florida firefighter in February and dumping his body in the woods of Newburgh was indicted this week by the Waldo County Grand Jury.

Daniel Porter, 24, of Jackson, was charged with one count of intentional or knowing murder for the slaying of Jerry Perdomo.

Police have said that Porter shot Perdomo in the side of the head on Feb. 16 at a rented home in Jackson with a semi-automatic rifle and that it was a drug-related crime. Perdomo, a firefighter and emergency medical technician for the Seminole County Fire Department, allegedly had been coming to Bangor once a month for nearly a year in order to illicitly transport and sell prescription drugs from Florida.

FirefighterNation.com has the story of 3 college students who had to be rescued from a 20 foot high roof on their campus at Hampshire College. The Amherst, Massachusetts Fire Chief plans to bill the students for the rescue and called them “idiots”.

Here are my questions for you…

• How many calls have you run that had similar “idiots”?
• Do you think the “idiots” in this case or other cases should be billed?
• Do you think that by billing for services might dissuade people (or idiots) from calling for our help in the future?

I have no problem with the Fire Chief speaking out publicly and referring to these students as idiots. I think it is a teaching moment for other future idiots. It is a public service.

However, I do have a problem with billing for our services. If you are going to do it, do it for everyone (I also do not agree with that).

What do you think?