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Permalink Reply by Jay Nicholson on October 23, 2008 at 8:53pm

I can't help you with the exact article you may be looking for, but try searching LAIRDSVILLE. There was an incident there were a 21y/o chief was put in charge of a training burn. I think it happened in 2001. Resulted in an LODD with the family suing the dept. Hope this helps.

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Permalink Reply by Joe Stoltz on October 23, 2008 at 9:31pm

Or, try looking up the double LODD in Onondaga County, NY... there was some hubbub about that sometime back. I couldn't find anything here on it... Grasshopper.

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Permalink Reply by Christopher J. Naum, SFPE on October 23, 2008 at 10:15pm

Look at Lairdsville, NY LODD
Lairdsville, NY tragedy of September 25, 2001 which led to the trial and conviction of Lairdsville's former assistant fire chief for criminal negligence.
http://www.firehouse.com/training/news/2002/1106_FHniosh.html
Read the full report: http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/face200138.html

Also look at NIOSH Report from the Manlius NY double LODD. The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) Fire Fighter Fatality Investigation and Prevention Program has recently posted the results of their investigation of the deaths of two New York firefighters on March 7, 2002. Look at the following link; http://forums.firehouse.com/archive/index.php/t-39506.html
http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/fire/

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Permalink Reply by Christopher J. Naum, SFPE on October 24, 2008 at 12:07pm

Here's the two NIOSH Reports

F2002-06 Mar 07, 2002 First-floor collapse during residential basement fire claims the life of two fire fighters (career and volunteer) and injures a career fire fighter captain - New York

F2001-38 Sep 25, 2001 Volunteer fire fighter dies and two others are injured during live-burn training - New York

Attachments:

• face200206.pdf, 310 KB
• face200138.pdf, 216 KB

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Permalink Reply by Art "ChiefReason" Goodrich on October 24, 2008 at 4:22pm

LadyChaplain:
I did an article on the Lairdsville, NY incident. Bradley Golden was a 19 year old rookie firefighter who was killed during a training exercise on September 25th, 2001. Asst. Chief Alan Baird III was charged, tried and convicted of negligent homicide. His "qualifications" were a focus, but he was ultimately charged for setting the fire in a couch at the bottom of the stairway, while Bradley Golden, Ben Morris, Adam Croman and I believe a Gary Spaven were upstairs. The oldest one of the bunch was Lt. Adam Croman at age 21.
The article is entitled "Just Enough Time to Die".
Let me know if you want to see it.
Art

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Permalink Reply by Jay Nicholson on October 29, 2008 at 11:42pm

Did you find the article you were looking for?

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