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Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Firefighters Respond to EMS Call and Encounter Working House Fire
On May 22, 2011 at 7:51 AM, (5) Companies of Charlotte Firefighters, (1) Heavy Rescue Company, (1) Deputy Chief, (2) Battalion Chiefs, and (3) Fire Investigators under the direction of Battalion Chief Tom Link responded to a structure fire on Carved Tree Lane in North Charlotte.
Firefighters from neighborhood Fire Station 22 were initially dispatched to an EMS call for service at the same address and staged one block away awaiting the arrival of law enforcement due to the nature of the emergency. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Officers arrived on scene and notified fire communications of a house on fire with one person injured and another reportedly still inside the dwelling. Engine 22 immediately proceeded to the scene and simultaneously a working fire assignment was dispatched.
Within moments firefighters from Station 22 arrived on scene and confirmed a working fire with smoke and fire showing from a 2672 square foot 2-story single family home. Fire crews initiated a fire attack and search for the occupant reported still inside the smoke filled home. Additional fire crews provided horizontal ventilation to allow heat, smoke, and super-heated gases to escape the structure and assist the interior crews in searching for the occupant.
Within minutes the male occupant was located lying across a bed in an upstairs bedroom and extricated from the structure where medical care was administered. The occupant was unresponsive but had a pulse and was breathing. The occupant was transported to Carolinas Medical Center with potentially life threatening. In addition another occupant who had self-evacuated was transported with potentially life threatening injuries.
(31) Firefighters were summoned to knockdown this fire, effect a rescue, and bring the incident under control in 18 minutes. Monetary damage estimates were not immediately available and the cause of the fire remains under investigation by the Charlotte Fire Department Fire Investigation Task Force.
Eternally committed to duty and service,
Mark Basnight | Captain
Information Officer
Office of Media & Public Affairs
Charlotte Fire Department
Firefighters from neighborhood Fire Station 22 were initially dispatched to an EMS call for service at the same address and staged one block away awaiting the arrival of law enforcement due to the nature of the emergency. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Officers arrived on scene and notified fire communications of a house on fire with one person injured and another reportedly still inside the dwelling. Engine 22 immediately proceeded to the scene and simultaneously a working fire assignment was dispatched.
Within moments firefighters from Station 22 arrived on scene and confirmed a working fire with smoke and fire showing from a 2672 square foot 2-story single family home. Fire crews initiated a fire attack and search for the occupant reported still inside the smoke filled home. Additional fire crews provided horizontal ventilation to allow heat, smoke, and super-heated gases to escape the structure and assist the interior crews in searching for the occupant.
Within minutes the male occupant was located lying across a bed in an upstairs bedroom and extricated from the structure where medical care was administered. The occupant was unresponsive but had a pulse and was breathing. The occupant was transported to Carolinas Medical Center with potentially life threatening. In addition another occupant who had self-evacuated was transported with potentially life threatening injuries.
(31) Firefighters were summoned to knockdown this fire, effect a rescue, and bring the incident under control in 18 minutes. Monetary damage estimates were not immediately available and the cause of the fire remains under investigation by the Charlotte Fire Department Fire Investigation Task Force.
Eternally committed to duty and service,
Mark Basnight | Captain
Information Officer
Office of Media & Public Affairs
Charlotte Fire Department
Fire Tears Through Apartment Clubhouse
On May 19th, 2011 at 8:40 PM, (9) Companies of Charlotte Firefighters, (1) Heavy Rescue Company, (1) Deputy Chief, (3) Battalion Chiefs, and (3) Fire Investigators under the direction of Battalion Chief Mike Wilson were dispatched to a reported structure fire at 2705 New England Street. A large column of smoke was visible to companies from Station 27 approximately two miles away and Fire Communications increased the response to a working fire assignment. Firefighters from Stations 22, 27, 36, arrived within moments of each other at 8:45 PM and encountered a large two-story apartment clubhouse heavily involved with fire. Fire command was established and additional resources were summoned to the scene equivalent to a second alarm assignment.
Fire crews engaged in a fierce firefight with this well-entrenched fire by deploying a 105-foot aerial device to ventilate dormer windows and flow massive amounts of water into the well-involved attic. Progress was noted when the bulk of the fire began to darken and firefighters made haste to stretch hoselines into the interior of the structure and knockdown the fire that remained.
(44) Firefighters were needed to knockdown the fire and bring the incident under control in 26 minutes. Two tenants utilizing an exercise room at the time the fire was discovered escaped unharmed and there were no injuries to report. The origin and cause of the fire remain under investigation. Damage is estimated at $90,000,00.
Eternally committed to duty and service,
Mark Basnight | Captain
Information Officer
Office of Media & Public Affairs
Charlotte Fire Department
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