World's worst firemen? Bungling German firemen have been branded the worst in the world after their own fire station burned to the ground. All six fire engines perished in the £3 million blaze in Syke and it took 250 firemen from nearby towns to finally bring the inferno under control. Investigators believe the fire fighters could have triggered the blaze themselves in a training exercise accident or that faulty wiring was to blame. The weekend blaze was the second time the brigade has lost all its engines in a fire. The station was rebuilt in 1994 after being gutted by a fire. "A fire service that can?t even keep its own fire station and engines safe doesn't exactly inspire confidence," raged one local.
I wonder if anyones thought of this possibility? but, maybe those Firemen wanted their station to burn so that they could have a new one built which would be even more up-to-date. Just kidding of course.
Oops.. someone responsible will get blamed fro ths blunder. Poor firemen, they must have nightmares now.
Used to be? Still am. Look at my sig. <-Ol' Slip wearing a fire helmet We put out a house last Sunday where someone paid their stupid tax. They left a space heater too close to the shower curtain.
The story hints that the firefighters did training exercises at their own station. I can't begin to imagine that as our training exercises were done away from the station. The story also hints at faulty wiring, for which the firefighters can only be partially responsible. Our station was a state of the art facility. The year after I left, the town made the FD move into a steel building and sold the fire station to a bank.
Happened again, this time in Japan; TOKYO (Reuters) - A blaze broke out at a fire station in Japan this week after a firefighter left a cooking stove burning as crew members left the station to respond to emergency calls. Most of the duty staffers were out on a call when their colleague, alone at the station and cooking dinner for the crew, was himself called out. In his haste to respond to the call, he forgot to turn the stove off, said Seiji Hori, a Nagoya City Fire Department official. Ten fire trucks from other stations put out the fire, Hori added. "We are an institute that should be in a position to educate people about fire, so we are extremely sorry that such an incident happened," Hori said, adding that they would consider ordering-in for dinner from now on. (Reporting by Yoko Kubota; Editing by Jeremy Laurence) From: Fire station burns after cooking mishap | Oddly Enough | Reuters
Tsk Tsk. I always wondered how it was at a big city station. During the 1990's, I worked with Houston Firefighters at a couple of locations. They cook their own meals.
A life-long friend of mine by the name of Mark Goode, was a Houston Firefighter about 20 years ago. His Wife Alana, was a Nurse (still is) working at a local Hospital. Alana made Mark quit his job because of how dangerous it was--after something that had happened one evening while she was on duty. Mark happened to be stationed at a Fire Deptthat was closest to the Hospital where Alana worked at-and after going on a call-Mark had een instructed to go up 3 or 4 flights of stairs in some old part brick/part wooden-apartment complex. Mark did as he was instructed and was in the midst of getting people out of their apartments, wh en a huge burning beam fell on him knocking him out. Luckily one of his partners saw what happened and hefted him and ran out w/ him. Mark sustained some burns and also had a broken Collar Bone. Mark was rushed to the hopital where his wife saw and helped treat him. Well, Mark improved quickly and the Wife told him she wanted him to quit his job and start working in his other field of specilty-Nursing. Anyway, the guy who saved him from that apt bilding fire-was killed in that same fire after rushing back into the building and the 4th floor stairway gave way and he fell into the bowels of that burning building. Had Mark not have been injured-he would have been the man on that stairway when it collapsed.
I had a couple of close calls while firefighting, but also while being a Marine, and later in Law Enforcement. If it's your time, then it's your time. It could happen when you're in a burning building, or when you're at home in bed. The important thing is to follow your heart and your dreams. If Mark is happy in nursing, then more power to him, but I hope he doesn't have regrets. Once in the early 80's, when I was in an elite unit, there was a defining moment. I was in the barracks, in bed with my gal (I was an 800 pound gorilla-no one dared tell me it was against the rules). Anyway, we were cuddling after when there was a knock on the door. Eighteen hours later, we were on the other side of the wold in deep dark doo doo. A CBS film crew caught part of what was going on (rare at the time). Gloria was at work and the TV was on. She saw what was happening and her very audible gasp alerted everyone at work that she knew something. Two days later, when I got back, Gloria came unglued. It wasn't like I could just quit. We drifted apart and she drifted into drug use. She did get her act together later though.
