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Biggest Fire You Responded To
This is the fire that you thought you would never make it home because every muscle in your body felt like it had been torn and the heat melted your helmet and you thought you were a new york firefighter because your new gear was now black
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Permalink Reply by Brad MacMillan on
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In Feb. 2006 it was tinder dry, which is very unusual for anyone who's ever been in the Calgary area in February. Usually there's 3' of snow on the ground lol. We had 80km/h (50mph) winds. A flare stack touched down on some stubble in one of the farmer's fields, and then just took off. It burned straight towards my town of Carseland, We chased that thing for about 2 hrs doing 60km/h (about 37mph) through fields. Finally we did something that now that I'm more experience is probably the craziest thing we've ever done, but which we learned from. We made a last stand in a back alley on the edge of town with 35 guys and 15 trucks from 11 different towns and stations. It paid off, but now that I'm more experienced, I know that there was better ways to handle that and preparing ahead of the fire. We ended up fighting that fire overall because of about 200 hay bales catching fire for almost a week. Tough when we all had jobs to go to throughout the week.
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Permalink Reply by Jayne C. Eernisse - Gates on
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I have 2 fires -
The first one was the most manpower I have ever seen with a company called Ataco Steel in Cedarburg, WI in December of 1999 I believe. There was a total of 19 different departments from 3 or more counties because we needed to move a lot of water through our tanker shuttle.
The second was the longest which was Lam's Restaraunt in Port Washington, WI (I have been on Port 16 years) and it lasted 14 hours on scene and then we got toned out for a mutual aid stand-by which was another 2 hours on top of our fire.
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Permalink Reply by ian wilcox on
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the biggest fire i responded to was a fire at the local mill in february with the temperature at a balmy -25 lucky for us the mills sprinkler sytem kicked on and all we ended up with is a mop up job putting out spot fires the sprinklers missed we were still there for about 4 hours and ended up with a hall full of frozen hoses and turnout gear
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Permalink Reply by Karr Quintero on
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north comanche county fire, had aid from three other states along with every department in the area... but it was like gathering around a big bon fire keeping it inside the ring...
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Permalink Reply by FireFighter 13-51 on
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Nice Guys Keep um coming
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Glad to hear everyone made it out okay Michael. Hopefully insurance covered everything lost
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Permalink Reply by Chris Weber on
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Fire at the Pennzoil Refinery in Rouseville,PA(right outside Oil City)in Oct. of 1995.Several workers killed but no FF deaths or if I remember right there wasn't even any FF injuries.Every dept. in Venango Co. responded plus some others from outside the county.I think it was 26 dept.'s on scene plus several more on standby.(Not positive about the # of responding depts.Memory is getting a little hazy.)The irony is it was 1 day after our annual drill at the refinery.
Scariest situation was a atructure fire at a fermhouse with an addition on the back.House was double plank,solid as a rock.Addition was lightweight with a truss roof.Two or three of us got sent up to the addition roof to vent and roof went soft.Thought we were all going through.Sprawled out as far apart as we could and made it out.That was 1994 or 95.Kinda glad to see the 90's go by.But it was one of our first experiences with lightweight construction.
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Permalink Reply by Roy Walker on
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I guess guess the worst fire iin terms of of heat and dificulty was a fire we had was in a tire factory. The outside temperature was -20 and we were freezing up lines and pumpers ,because of heavy winds. The amounnt of smoke it created was incredable.
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Permalink Reply by Robert James Herring on
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Illegal tire dumb with about 10,000 plus car, large truck and tractor tires burning like a roman candle on steroids,we built a birm around it to stop runoff and eventually buried with a bulldozier and it burned underground for 3 months.
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Permalink Reply by Paul Montpetit on
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The "biggest" or the most intense...? Biggest would be a recent barn fire...over 30,000 bales of hay, I think there were 11 Fire Departments there.....burned for 2 days....most intense...multi-occupied apartment complex......no fatalities....
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Permalink Reply by Todd Overcash on
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The biggest was a mill work occupancy that caught fire early one morning. I was on the way to work when the call was dispatched. Being an off duty batt. chief, my role at the time was to cover the rest of the city with coverage. I ended up at the fire in a support role. This fire ended up requiring basically the involvement of all but 1 or 2 of the volunteer department in the county and unfortunately lead to 2 LODD's.
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Permalink Reply by M.J. 6821 on
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Don't you just love hay bale fires you really can't put them out, at the alfalfa processing plant that we had in our territory they had what we called the "donkey dick" don't ask me how it got that name but we put that on the front of a payloader and broke the bales up so we could expose everything to put water on it or let it burn itself out.
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