Emergency Traffic

While training on a newly acquired aerial platform in 2009, two Firefighters fell from the basket to their deaths after the aerial got snagged on a parapet wall.

Grab a cuppa and gather on the tailboard with us, as the gang discusses a recent Firehouse article, that reviews a recent large study, on the colour of Fire Apparatus and which colour has less accidents.

This episode examines the 2010 LODD of two Chicago firefighters and injures 19 others when a bowstring truss roof collapses at a vacant building fire.

On a cold December night in 1991 four volunteer firefighters died at a fire in a furniture refinishing factory when the floor collapsed under them. Join us to learn more about this incident from the lead investigator.

The whole Emergency Traffic gang have a passionate discussion about the recent Operations Memos issued by the Baltimore City Fire Department after another LODD in a row house fire in October.

Very early on the morning of November 29, 1988 two (2) Kansas City Engines responded to a vehicle fire at a roadway construction site, 30 minutes later all six (6) firefighters on those engines would be dead. Please listen and learn more about this pivotal incident in the history of the North American Fire Service.

Please Join Doug and I as we discuss the tragic death of a firefighter in Texas when an Engine was stuck and burned over in a wildland fire

In November of 2022, three firefighters were killed when the ARFF truck they were riding in was struck by a jet airliner during takeoff. Join us to learn more.

In 2005 a fire instructor died while working at a state fire college, during a week of live fire training for instructors.

In two separate incidents in Ohio, one in 1985 and one in 2003 five firefighters were killed fighting fires in silos. Listen with us and learn about these incidents.

Please join Dirk, Denys and Me, as we discuss some of the new technology versus old school equipment and systems in the fire service today.

In January of 1995, four Seattle Firefighters were killed in an Arson fire in a warehouse. Join the investigator of the incident, Chief Gordon J Routley and the ET gang as we discuss this fire.

Please Join Dirk, myself and a new Host Denys, as we review and discuss the LODD that occurred in a Multifamily structure fire, in Passaic NJ in 2009

Please join Doug, Dirk and I, as we review this event that occurred in Houston TX, in 2009. Where two firefighters died in a Mc Mansion house under wind driven conditions.

Please Join us as we discuss and review the common threads we have observed after revieing 30 LODD events over the past year. We discuss the NIOSH top five and the Don Abbott Project Mayday survey results.

Two Firefighters die in a residential fire after becoming disoriented in heavy fire conditions and the floor collapses, on April 4th, 2008.

Doug and I review and discuss the secondary building collapse at a building under construction incident in 2018 that killed two firefigthers and injured several others.

Dirk, Doug and Paul discuss and share opinions on various issues on the tailboard; Fire based or Itegrated EMS, Commercial Chassis apparatus, Quints, 10 codes and more.

In March of 1996 a Cologne firefighter was trapped and sustain fatal injuries in a basement fire of a high rise building.

Join us and the retired Fire Chief of department, as we discuss this late night fire in a Knights of Columbus Hall, that claimed the lives of two Fire Officers and injured several more firefighters.

In this second part we review and discuss the recommendations and changes since the internal report of this tragic incident.

Several Baltimore FF's died and more were injured when a vacant row house collapsed during a fire in January 2022. This podcast examines the internal report of this tragic incident. Part 1 reviews the event and part 2 reviews the recommendations and changes since the incident.

Join us as we sit on the tailboard a discuss these new remote-controlled mobile monitors and fans, often called "robots".

Please join Dirk, Doug and me as we discuss the recent survey of the Canadian Fire Service, done by the Canadian Fire Chiefs Association, (CAFC).  (photo credit to the CAFC).  Read the press release and related information here. https://cafc.ca/page/2022Censusresults

Listen and learn with us about the tragic Worcester Mass. cold storage warehouse fire, that occurred on Dec 3, 1999. Where six firefighters lost their lives became lost and running out of air.