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MODESTO (CA) FIREFIGHTERS UPDATE-3rd Degree Burns To Nearly 50% Of His Body.
The Modesto Firefighter who fell through the roof of a burning single family dwelling fire late Friday is in a medically induced coma and will probably be in the hospital for more than a month. FF Jim Adams, a 24-year veteran of the Modesto Fire Department suffered much more serious burns than originally thought.
The other firefighter injured in the blaze, Jason Clevenger, is expected to be released in a few days but will require extensive treatment.
FF Clevenger, 32, was burned over 10 percent of his body. Doctors at first thought Adams, 46, had burns on about 30 percent of his body. Now they say Adams suffered third-degree burns on close to 50 percent of his body, including both hands. Adams is on a ventilator in a medically induced coma. He is a married father of two adult sons. The incident happened 6 minutes after Firefighters arrived and found a single-family home with heavy smoke showing. Clevenger and Adams climbed a ladder to the garage roof do vertical ventilation. Reports are that Adams went up the ladder first. He tapped the roof with a hook, and once on top of the garage, Clevenger prepared to use his chain saw to cut into the roof, but smoke stalled the saw. As Clevenger started the chain saw again, he felt his feet sink into the roof, as if he were standing on a mattress and "Before he could say, 'Jim, we need to get off the roof,' it failed," a spokesman said.
Both men fell into the burning garage, where the fire had started when that woman living at the house dropped a candle next to a gasoline powered generator. When the roof collapsed the structure became well involved due to the influx or air. Clevenger got to his feet and used an ax from his belt to clear a path to where he thought the door was. Adams had to be pulled out by the RIT company and had him out in less than two minutes. Info from the ModBee & the MFD.
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The Modesto Firefighter who fell through the roof of a burning single family dwelling fire late Friday is in a medically induced coma and will probably be in the hospital for more than a month. FF Jim Adams, a 24-year veteran of the Modesto Fire Department suffered much more serious burns than originally thought.
The other firefighter injured in the blaze, Jason Clevenger, is expected to be released in a few days but will require extensive treatment.
FF Clevenger, 32, was burned over 10 percent of his body. Doctors at first thought Adams, 46, had burns on about 30 percent of his body. Now they say Adams suffered third-degree burns on close to 50 percent of his body, including both hands. Adams is on a ventilator in a medically induced coma. He is a married father of two adult sons. The incident happened 6 minutes after Firefighters arrived and found a single-family home with heavy smoke showing. Clevenger and Adams climbed a ladder to the garage roof do vertical ventilation. Reports are that Adams went up the ladder first. He tapped the roof with a hook, and once on top of the garage, Clevenger prepared to use his chain saw to cut into the roof, but smoke stalled the saw. As Clevenger started the chain saw again, he felt his feet sink into the roof, as if he were standing on a mattress and "Before he could say, 'Jim, we need to get off the roof,' it failed," a spokesman said.
Both men fell into the burning garage, where the fire had started when that woman living at the house dropped a candle next to a gasoline powered generator. When the roof collapsed the structure became well involved due to the influx or air. Clevenger got to his feet and used an ax from his belt to clear a path to where he thought the door was. Adams had to be pulled out by the RIT company and had him out in less than two minutes. Info from the ModBee & the MFD.
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