DERBY, CT, JAN. 26, 2015 – At about 7:30 P.M., the Derby Fire Department was dispatched to a reported house fire. Companies responding to the scene reported a working fire from a distance due to the heavy fire showing from the home on top of a large hill. When units arrived on scene, they found a duplex heavily involved on the left-side apartment. Initial operations were difficult due to heavy winds and snow related to the blizzard warning that was in effect for the area. Ten people escaped from the structure without injury. Two firefighters sustained minor injuries. Photo by Keith Muratori
SOMERS POINT, NJ, FEB. 27, 2015 – The City of Somers Point Fire Department responded to a report of a boat on fire at Bay and Maryland avenues. Firefighters fought a difficult fire as the vessel was still in the water, which was frozen over, and also endured sub-zero temperatures. Foam was used to extinguish the stubborn fire and smoke was visible for miles.
Photo by Dennis C. Sharpe
VAN NUYS, CA, JAN. 9, 2015 – Los Angeles Fire Department firefighters examine the debris from a single-engine experimental plane that nosedived at the intersection of Vanowen Street and Hayvenhurst Avenue in Lake Balboa, near Van Nuys Airport. The 47-year-old pilot was killed. No one else was injured in the 1:15 P.M. crash.
Photo by Mike Meadows
BRADFORD, PA, SEPT. 4, 2014 – A Bradford City firefighter operates a portable monitor on a three-inch supply line at a fire involving a vacant 2½-story house. The structure was fully involved upon arrival of the fire department. Two alarms with additional special calls brought all off-duty city firefighters to the scene, along with Bradford Township, Derrick City and Corydon Township volunteer firefighters and the Bradford Area Rapid Intervention Team. A State Police Fire Marshal determined that the cause of the fire was arson. The fire spread to an occupied 2½-story home.
Photo by Jay K. Bradish/IFPA
