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CA Firefighter Rescued by Colleagues After Refrigerator Falls on Him During House Fire

From turnto23.com:

 

A firefighter was hurt after a refrigerator fell on top of him in a burning house in Oildale (CA) Saturday morning, but he was quickly saved by his crew...

 

It all started just before 8 a.m. the crew at Station 63 was called out to a vacant house going up in flames on Washington Avenue. [Firefighter Devin] Lawrence ran into the burning building with…

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Added by Fire Engineering on January 30, 2011 at 7:30am — No Comments

New Anthony Avillo piece on preventing RIC radio chaos

Read Chief Avillo's follow-up to his article in the December Fire Engineering HERE. In it he describes the benefits of breaking out three different radio frequencies to better handle Mayday operations.

 

Feel free to leave your thoughts about this concept in the comments here.

Added by Fire Engineering on January 5, 2011 at 1:13pm — No Comments

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