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The rescue involved two helicopters, a dozen climbing rangers, two mountaineering physicians and numerous other responders. "It was a monumental test of rescuer skills and stamina, combined with incident command management ability," said Fire Rescue Magazine. [6]
Fire Engineering, the Fire Department Instructor’s Conference, and then-publisher PennWell established the Courage and Valor Foundation after 9-11. The Foundation was created to ensure that we as Americans "Remember Forever" the fallen firefighters of September 11, and in their memory, recognize other firefighters who demonstrate that same ...
Life-net used in Ringtheater fire in Vienna December 8, 1881. On August 19, 1902, the New York City Fire Department conducted its first real-life rescue with the Browder life net. During rescue operations at a tenement fire that killed five people, a baby was dropped from a fourth-floor fire escape into a life net, and survived uninjured. [5]
The Louis Behrens, also known as Marine 101 is a fireboat commissioned by Charleston, South Carolina, in 2012. [1]The boat is named after Louis Behrens, who was Chief of Charleston's fire department from 1907 until his death of 1932. [2]
Dennis Edward Smith (September 9, 1940 – January 21, 2022) was an American firefighter and author. He was the author of 16 books, the most notable of which is the memoir Report from Engine Co. 82, a chronicle of his career as a firefighter with the New York City Fire Department in a South Bronx firehouse from the late 1960s and into the 1970s. [1]
Fire backlights a renovation scaffold during the 2019 Notre-Dame de Paris fire. Trinity Cathedral, Saint Petersburg in 2006; a fire started in the scaffolding. Construction and renovation are common circumstances for fires, which present particular difficulties to firefighters. Børsen fire, April 2024, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Louis Behrens was the Chief of the fire department of Charleston, South Carolina for 25 years. [1] He worked for the department for 58 years. [2] [3] [4] Behrens grew up in Charleston, and grew up to become a cabinet maker. [5] His uncle had been a firefighter and had died fighting fires when Union forces bombarded Charleston during the Civil War.