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Six injured as vehicle rolls off freeway into car dealership.

April 7, 2008

Date: April 7, 2008
Location: 1700 Block of South E St.
Time of the call: 1744
First Unit on Scene: 1749 (ME-231)
Number of Units: 3 Fire Engines, 1 Fire Truck, 1 USAR Specialized Rescue Vehicle, 1 Battalion Chief, 1 EMS Coordinator, 6 AMR Ambulances
Number of Firefighters: 16
Injuries: Civilians: 6
Fatalities: None
Additional information:
On arrival firefighters found a sport utility vehicle [...]

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Multi-Casualty Incident – Downtown San Bernardino

April 3, 2008

At approximately 1900 hrs the San Bernardino City Fire Department responded to a Multi Casualty Incident involving 9 people in three different vehicles. Two of the involved were pediatric patients. A total of 5 were transported to local hospitals with moderate injuries. Three vehicles were involved. One female was ejected from her vehicle and [...]

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Vehicle Fire With A Severe Burn Victim

April 1, 2008

At 2307 on 3/31/08 the San Bernardino City Fire Dispatch center received multiple calls for a vehicle fire next to a residence. Six fire units carrying 24 firefighters responded to the incident which was located at 14th Street and G Street.
The first arriving unit found a vehicle that was [...]

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Waterman Spot Fires Initially Suspicious; Deemed Accidental

March 27, 2008

San Bernardino city firefighters responded to multiple calls for fires in Waterman Canyon Thursday afternoon. Initial reports from witnesses was that a vehicle was throwing items from their window shortly prior to the fires.
Initial responding units encountered 6 small spot fires along side of highway 18 which were extinguished by some quick acting drivers that [...]

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San Bernardino City Firefighters Battle 2 Alarm Structure Fire

February 20, 2008

First-Hand Account 
        
When the first SBFD unit arrived they saw heavy smoke and fire coming from the inside and 20 ft flames coming from the 2nd story windows of a vacant 3000 square foot two story home.  Firefighters made entry through the front door and extinguished the fire on the first floor while other crews simultaneously [...]

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Arson Fire Severely Damages Home – San Bernardino

January 19, 2008

First-Hand Account
  We had just finished up our training for the day when we received a tap for a structure fire on 48th street.  Dispatch came over and told us they had multiple calls.  I was on the Truck today.  When we arrived on scene we saw that the fire was well involved and in [...]

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Two Adjacent Apartment Buildings Catch Fire – San Bernardino

January 18, 2008

First-Hand Account 
            There was an impressive amount of flames reaching for the sky as we turned the corner.  Two 4-plex apartment buildings were heavily involved in fire.  We were the third unit on scene.  We went to work protecting the exposures since these were so well involved by the time we arrived.  The typical [...]

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Be Pro-Active With Security Bars – San Bernardino House Fire

January 9, 2008

On January 9, 2008, at approx. 0400 Hours, seven units from the San Bernardino City Fire Department responded to the 1400 block of North Sepulveda the structure was a single story single family dwelling with fire blowing out of the front three windows, which alerted the neighbors of the near by residents. City fire [...]

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Midtown Madness

January 6, 2008

I worked a trade at Station 4 on the 4th of January. Needless to say, we got hammered. I thought Station 10 was busy…Let’s see, we did rookie testing from 9:30am to 6pm. During that time, the rest of the city had 2 structure fires. Imagine that.
Oh [...]

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Enter The New Year With A Two-Alarm Blaze

January 1, 2008

We were standing on the apparatus floor listening to fireworks and gun shots popping everywhere. Ringing in the New Year with the boys at the station was sure to be memorable…..Sure enough, exactly what we were expecting……the lights come on, the tap goes off and we were out the doors to a second alarm in [...]

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