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Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Report: Career Battalion Chief and Career Master Fire Fighter Die and Twenty-Nine Career Fire Fighters are Injured During a Five Alarm Church Fire in Pennsylvania
On March 13, 2004, a 55-year-old male career Battalion Chief (Victim no. 1) and a 51-year-old male career master fire fighter (Victim no. 2) were fatally injured during a structural collapse at a church fire. Victim no. 1 was acting as the Incident Safety Officer and Victim no. 2 was performing overhaul, extinguishing remaining hot spots inside the church vestibule when the bell tower collapsed on them and numerous other fire fighters. Twenty-three fire fighters injured during the collapse were transported to area hospitals. A backdraft occurred earlier in the incident that injured an additional six fire fighters. The collapse victims were extricated from the church vestibule several hours after the collapse. The victims were pronounced dead at the scene.
Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Report: Career Battalion Chief and Career Master Fire Fighter Die and Twenty-Nine Career Fire Fighters are Injured During a Five Alarm Church Fire in Pennsylvania
On March 13, 2004, a 55-year-old male career Battalion Chief (Victim no. 1) and a 51-year-old male career master fire fighter (Victim no. 2) were fatally injured during a structural collapse at a church fire. Victim no. 1 was acting as the Incident Safety Officer and Victim no. 2 was performing overhaul, extinguishing remaining hot spots inside the church vestibule when the bell tower collapsed on them and numerous other fire fighters. Twenty-three fire fighters injured during the collapse were transported to area hospitals. A backdraft occurred earlier in the incident that injured an additional six fire fighters. The collapse victims were extricated from the church vestibule several hours after the collapse. The victims were pronounced dead at the scene.
Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Report: Career Battalion Chief and Career Master Fire Fighter Die and Twenty-Nine Career Fire Fighters are Injured During a Five Alarm Church Fire in Pennsylvania
2006
24 pages
Report
No indication
English
Environmental Health & Safety , Public Health & Industrial Medicine , Fire Services, Law Enforcement, & Criminal Justice , Environmental & Occupational Factors , Church fires , Fire fighters , Structural collapses , Fatalities , Backdrafts , Recommendations , Investigations , Training , Weather , Equipment , Apparatus , Cause of death , Pennsylvania , Injuries , FACE report , Battalion Chief , Master fire fighter