Emergency Traffic

In the evening of November 2. 2012 Chicago firefighters were called to a smoke in the area call that resulted in the loss of life of a veteran Chicago Firefighter, due to a rapid fire progression event. Listen to learn more from the NIOSH report.

In November of 2019 a fire officer died during a challenging fire in Balloon framed Two and a Half storey multifamily dwelling. Please listen to learn more about this event from the NIOSH report.

In October of 2015, two firefighters were killed and several others injured, when a wall collapsed during a large multi-use building fire, defensive operations.

In September of 2010, a routine public works job turned into a confined space LODD. Please join us as we review the NIOSH report.

Please join the group as we review the NIOSH report of the Deutsch Bank fire that occurred in August of 2007, where 2 FDNY firefighters were killed and 115 other injured, during this 7 alarm fire in a high rise under demolition, as a result of damage that happened on 9/11.

In September of 2019 five firefighters from the Milford Haven Fire Rescue Service were performing Water Rescue training in two boats. Suddenly the boats collided at speed and one firefighter was fatally injured. Please listen and learn more about this low frequency-High risk event.

In August of 2000 a career firefighter was drowned during spontaneous water rescues on or near community roadways in a suburban area, after a summer storm flooding event. preplanning, situational awareness, training, lack of personal flotation devices and wearing structural firefighting gear during water rescues, all played a role in this fatality.

A gas leak resulting from un-permitted directional boring caused an explosion that fatally injured a firefighter and injured several others in Sun Prairie WI in July of 2000.

In July of 2013 a Greater Manchester Fire Rescue Service firefighter died and another was injured when they became disoriented and unaccounted for in a commercial business fire, after shift change, from day to night shift on the fireground.

Please Join, Dirk, Doug and I on the tailboard where we chat about a recent FireRescue1 article on Firefighting motorcycles and other current subjects.

In June of 2003 Two Memphis TN firefighters died when they were trapped in a Family Dollar store on fire and the roof collapsed.

In June of 2017 a firefighter fell to his death while carrying tools up an aerial ladder in LA.

This early morning fire in a vacant commercial property, with evidence of squatters, resulted in two Maydays and the LODD of one firefighter trapped on the second floor.

Please join Denys, Doug and I on the tailboard, as we chat about Church and large building fires.

In episode #49 we review the EPA/OHS and My Firefighter Nation reports on this Haz Mat incident that killed four firefighters during size up, and resulted in a complex state of Emergency for the area, that lasted for several days and the participation of dozens of local, state and federal agencies and Industrial Mutual Aid partners.

This episode about the LODD and injuries that occurred in Houston TX in April of 2004.

Tailboard talk about a wide variety of subjects.

In this episode we explore the LODD of a South Dakota firefighter during a rural residential house fire after the successful rescue of a victim. This is a typical anywhere in North America rural call.

On March 17, firefighters from North Perth responded to a smoke and possible fire at a local commercial occupancy undergoing roof repairs, while open for business. During investigation of smoke in the store, and potential fire in the below roof space, the roof collapsed, trapping two firefighters.

In March of 2019 two firefighters entered a 21/2 story walkup multi-family dwelling for search and rescue of a trapped occupant. They encountered rapid fire progression and the Captain was killed and the Firefighter was injured. please listen to learn more about this event.

Please Join a few of us on the tailboard as we discuss some current events like the recent high rise cladding fire in Spain, the triple FDNY roof rope rescues and more.

In this rather unique incident a firefighter is killed from a collapsing cell phone/radio tower, subsequent to a earlier collapse, where maintenance workers were injured. Join us for a discussion about this tragic event and learn from it.

In this landmark event the largest High Rise Fire in North American History at the time. Three firefighters died and 8 others were rescued. This event resulted in 12 alarms and eventually, it burned up to the 30th floor where sprinklers controlled it and stopped progression, so firefighter could extinguish it. Multiple system failures created obstacles for suppression, including delayed alarm, imp...

The Emergency Traffic gang gathers on the Tailboard, to chat about Master Stream nozzles, combination vs, smooth bore.

In January of 2009, a Boston Fire Lieutenant was killed and three Firefighters were injured when the aerial truck they were riding in lost control down a hill and crashed into a building. Learn more about this incident in this episode.