Emergency Traffic

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.

Join us to learn more about this fire in an auto parts store where three firefighters lost their lives when the roof collapsed.

This balloon-framed residential structure side wall collapsed onto a firefighter working outside the structure. 

Join me and our Co-Hosts as we discuss the recent successful, from floor-above, rope rescue that was performed by members of the FDNY.

Listen and learn with us about this tragic LODD that occurred in Texas in October of 2001 on the fifth floor of a high rise. 

One Firefighter ran out of air and another fell out of a second-story window at this apartment fire in 2014. Learn about it with us.

Join us on the tailboard as we discuss how Modern vehicles have changed and how that impacts parking garage fires.

An arson fire claims the lives of three firefighters and injures three more. Floor collapse in a row house, Listen and learn more as we review and discuss the NIOSH report of this tragic event.

This incident killed one firefighter and injured five others at a gas leak call.

Due to a front tire Failure, the apparatus left the roadway and struck a tree, fatally injuring the Engineer.