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Hot Shot Flash Back – Burbank Fire

February 26, 2008

This fire was the Griffith Park IC on November 22, 2005. It was at 400 N. Griffith Park Drive in Burbank California. The crew was: Captain Rowley, Engineer Deagon, Firefighter Burke (who has the saw), and Firefighter Magnante. Unfortunately, a trapped elderly woman died two days later from severe smoke inhalation from this fire. This [...]

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San Bernardino Firefighters Battle Motel Blaze

February 25, 2008

First-Hand Account Submitted by Ben Alexander On February 24th units from the San Bernardino City Fire Department responded to a multiple alarm fire located in a downtown motel. Initial arriving units encountered heavy smoke and fire conditions coming from two motel rooms located on the second floor of the 2 story motel. An aggressive interior [...]

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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 [...]

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SBFD Confined Space Training Drill

February 14, 2008

First-Hand Account On the evening of February 12th, 15 members from SBFD specializing in Confined Space Ops simulated a ‘kid down in a storm drain’. Normally we run our drills during the day but we chose to do it at night this time to change it up a little. It added a little more work [...]

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Pilot Makes Emergency Landing – San Bernardino

February 13, 2008

First-Hand Account Submited by Engineer Yellen, San Bernardino City FD “Today, I was working my first shift back at our Central station with my new crew.  We ran a call for an in-flight emergency with malfunctioning landing gear.  Turns out that this gentleman had thousands of hours of flight time and was Bob Hope’s personal [...]

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SBFD RIC Training Prop Featured in CSFA Magazine

February 10, 2008

The most recent issue of the California State Firefighters Association magazine featured an article on the RIC training props created by the crew from San Bernardino City fire station 221. Specifically featured was the “firefighter through the roof” prop. This event trains firefighters with different techniques on how to extract a firefighter when partially entrapped [...]

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2 Car Collision on Mill St. – San Bernardino

January 25, 2008

First-Hand Account Tonight we had a traffic collision on Mill Street. Colton Fire dept. responded and gave us a hand with patient care and extrication. The call came in as a two vehicle head on T/C. When we arrived we found a sedan which had collided with a pick-up truck. It was a messy scene [...]

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Hot Shots of The Month – San Bernardino

January 23, 2008

Here are our selected photos for this month.  These were submitted by FF/PM John Miller from the SBFD.          Thanks for your submission John!                          Read story related to these photos Submit your department’s photos and incident date/description to info@drama911.com

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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 [...]

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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 crews [...]

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