April 2009

Inside the Command Post – Episode #13 – SBFD

April 23, 2009

A look Inside the Command Post. SBFD Company and Chief Officers arriving on scene and their Size-Up process. This video clip shows the BC in the ICP working with a Captain who is soon to be promoted to to the rank of BC. (more)

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San Bernardino City Responds to 10 Acre Brush Fire

April 22, 2009

Five units from the San Bernardino City Fire Department responded to a reported Brush Fire on Perris Hill today at approximately 11:00 AM this morning. The first unit on scene reported a 100 x 100 spot of light flashy fuels burning at a moderate to rapid rate of spread. Due to the high temperatures and [...]

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San Bernardino County Firefighters battle Muscoy house blaze

April 22, 2009

A fire damaged a two-story home on Second Street in Muscoy this afternoon. San Bernardino County firefighters came to a home in the 2400 block of West Second Street at 12:14 p.m. and found flames coming from the roof of the house. Firefighters also found a powerline that had fallen in the area. The blaze [...]

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Bullhead City Firefighters Prepare for River Run

April 22, 2009

Being more than prepared is the goal of the Bullhead City Fire Department’s Division Chiefs Bill Kinsey and Steve Duncan. This week the department training is focusing on traffic incidents with multiple injuries. “Each April we know our roads become busy with motorcycles. In any turn lane we may see eight, ten, or 20 motorcycles; [...]

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Montclair fire rages through home, displaces family

April 22, 2009

An electrical fire engulfed a home on Orchard Street Monday, displacing a family and leaving few items salvageable. The blaze started at around 12:54 p.m. and was put out in 15 minutes by the Montclair Fire Department with assistance from Ontario, Upland and Chino departments, said Mike Donley, Montclair fire spokesman. No nearby homes were [...]

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Apartment Fire Taxes San Bernardino City Resources

April 21, 2009

City fire crews responded to a 911 caller reporting a fire in an apartment on the second floor of a two story apartment complex in the 100 block of Cluster Street. This fire was reported 49 minutes after City Fire Engines responded to a working brush fire on Perris Hill, all five of those engines [...]

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Paterson N.J. block nearly wiped out by fire

April 21, 2009

Two firefighters injured, four alarms, five hours, six homes, eight-inch water main problems, twelve mutual aid towns, nearly thirty pieces of apparatus, fifty people homeless and scores of firefighters! That’s what it was like at the scene of a general alarm fire which broke out just before 4:00pm on Friday, April 17, allegedly originating in [...]

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San Bernardino County Firefighters make aggressive stop of Adelanto House Fire

April 19, 2009

Adelanto, CA – Bystanders rescued an elderly man from his home in the 11000 block of Desert Rose Drive in Adelanto after a fire broke out around 12:30 on Sunday afternoon. Rudy Avila and Erik Salgado of Victorville were driving in the area when they spotted smoke and decided to see where it was coming [...]

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Orange County Firefighters Stop Brush Fire in Mission Viejo

April 19, 2009

A brush fire in Mission Viejo today threatened homes before it was extinguished, a fire battalion chief said. The brushfire was reported at 3:30 p.m. next to the San Diego (5) Freeway near La Paz Road and south of Mission Viejo High School, said Battalion Chief Kris Conception of the Orange County Fire Authority. The [...]

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El Dorado Hills Firefighters respond to neighborhood plane crash

April 18, 2009

The first sound was of an engine sputtering and trees snapping.  Dirk Comstock-Ervin looked up from his El Dorado Hills yard late Friday afternoon to the shocking sight of a plane nose-diving into his neighbor’s driveway. “You could hear the engine going, ‘Pop, pop!’ ” Comstock-Ervin said. Then came the explosion, the fire, the neighbors [...]

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