Video by newsworking. House Fire in North Whitehall Township, PA. The fire at Rt.145 and River Road went to 2 alarms. North Whitehall FD, Whitehall FD, and Lehigh Township FD responded.
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Fireground Video: Mayday Called at Youell’s Oyster House 3rd Alarm Commercial Fire. 5 Allentown, PA Firefighters Injured at Scene.
1 commentUpdated with a second video from newsworking (below the first) and dispatch audio at the bottom.
Five firefighters were taken to local hospitals with injuries.
Two firefighters who entered the burning structure at 2249 W. Walnut St. suffered burns and were treated and released from St. Luke’s Hospital-Allentown. Two other firefighters were injured when an exterior wall partially collapsed on them, and one firefighter slipped on the ice rushing to their aid.
Capt. John Christopher said those three firefighters are being treated at Lehigh Valley Hospital-Cedar Crest and are expected to be released.
More coverage at MyFoxPhilly.com and Mcall.com and FirefighterNation.com
Seven homes were involved in a stubborn blaze that firefighters fought in Allentown today. The 3 Alarm fire brought all city units on scene. Both newsworking and firtog were on scene to get video. The fire occurred at the 500 Block of Washington St.
From firtog:
Around 1330 hrs on Sunday Allentown Firefighters area dispatched to the 500 Block of Washington St for a reported house fire, Crews arrive on location and confirm a working fire and stretch in with fire in a middle of the row. At one point crews had heavy smoke pushing from the roof area of 7 homes, crews went to the roof and made trench cuts to the stop the progression of fire. Multiple lines were stretched into several home and firefighters had the fire under control in about an hour.
Helmet Camera Video: Defensive “Blitz” Attack Used Prior to Making Interior Attack on House Fire in Nov. Whitehall, PA Fire
No commentsThis video is for a house fire back in November in Whitehall Township, PA. The Helmet camera footage catches a blitz attack (that’s what we call it) via defensive position prior to making an interior attack on the fire. Not something I see everyday. Have you ever used a blitz attack?
Outside video of the fire can be seen in a separate video below uploaded back when the fire occurred.
Video from firtog
11.15.12 @ 0335 hrs Stations 36 and 37 were dispatched to 820 4th St for the Dwelling Fire, while crews were responding WPD and 3501 confirmed a working fire. Squad 36 arrives first due and goes in service with a 2.5 and Deck Gun to darken
down the fire. E3712 arrives and lays a supply the crew then takes a 1 3/4 from 3611 and makes the front door. A 3rd line is then stretched to the rear for crews to make the basement, the Truck 36 Crew goes to the roof and opens up. A 4th line is pulled from 3611 and is used to knock down exterior fire on the building, All searches are negative and the fire is under control in about an hour. Crews will remain on location for most of the day for fire watch and investigative purposes…
Second video below originally uploaded back in November by newsworking from an exterior point of view.
Best of the Rest – FDIC Stair Climb, Fire Videos, Bullies, FNG, Fitness, MN8, NFE, and Much More!
No commentsI am getting geared up for FDIC. If you are going, the only thing you HAVE to do is participate in the 9/11 Memorial Stair Climb. I wrote about it just yesterday here.
The Fire Service Warrior meetup (Facebook Event Page) will be April 24, 2013 at 5pm at the Ram Restaurant and Brewery. Be there!
I will be posting our itinerary when it gets a little closer. You will be able to find Captain Wines and I split between the MN8 Foxfire booth #5571 and Black Diamond Group booth #2401.
It’s promotional testing time again. This is one of the books I bought. I would love to tell you what it is, but I would have to kill you. We aren’t allowed posting the text book list online according to a memo. I wish I could tell you more about the $230 purchase I made on the books…but I can’t. BTW, this is not one of the books on the list.
In case you missed it, I was busy this weekend with a series of videos on FireCritic.com. Check them out here:
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Check out the custom inserts for our Phenix TL2 helmets. J5 Firelids sent these to us. Check out J5 Firelids here.
Fire Law Blog offers us Cyberbullying – The Ugly Side of Social Media
Firehouse Zen offers two great articles recently “I am a Bully” and “The FNG“.
True North is giving away a scholarship (paid trip to FDIC). This year, they renamed the program “Lt. Richard A. Nappi Training Scholarship”. Read more about it here
Firefighter Nation – Monte Egherman writes about Building a Functional Fitness Program
MN8 Foxfire’s new illuminating helmet bars
STATter911.com found a great video: Arrival video: House fire in Calverton, MD. PGFD in action from 1991. Plus an apartment fire in Oxon Hill.
MN8 Foxfire has rolled out the brand new illuminating helmet bars (to the right). Read more about them here.
Mike Legeros has pictures of a fire on Roger’s lane here. AND…you can buy his books Raleigh and Wake County Firefighting or Raleigh and Wake County Firefighting, Volume II. Read more about that here.
Challenge Coins – I collect challenge coins and trade them. If you would like to purchase one of our coins, check out NM Coin. That is the only place you can get them unless you catch us with one to spare. If you would like to trade, let me know at firecritic@firecritic.com. Below is the National Firefighters Endowment Officer’s Club Chief level coin. Mine is number 005. Learn more about the Officer’s Club here.
This is my Officer’s Club coin from the National Firefighters Endowment. To learn more about the Officer’s Club and get your own coin, check out this link.