Jordan Taylor English 111-51 Descriptive Essay, Thomas Taylor 09/09/13 I was quickly awakened to the sound of the pager screaming at me. I sat up and silently listened as the dispatch lady said, “Company 12 respond for a structure fire.” I jumped right out of my bed and threw my clothes on. I ran to my truck and got right in and off I went. When I got to the firehouse I ran to my gear rack and jumped immediately into my boots, thrust my arms into my jacket, and tossed my helmet on my head. Shaking like a tree on a windy day, I climbed onto the fire truck.
“Ring ring... ring ring...” John answered the phone. Someone on the other side of the phone was screaming, panicking because a 20 story apartment complex was on fire. The lady had dialed 911 and was transferred to Station 11 in New York. Engine 5 and all its members rushed out of the station and onto the road. It’s very hard to get through traffic in New York, but with the aid of a siren they made it through rather quickly.
In a haunting scene late tonight, rescue workers using blow torches, pneumatic drills and cranes worked furiously under floodlights to pry out the dead and wounded still crushed beneath the smouldering debris. Marine spokesmen said there might have been as many as 300 men sleeping in the building - which doubled as a bunk house - at the time of the
Mann Gulch Fire On August 5th, 1949 what was thought to be a routine day in the lives of 16 smokejumpers, will be remembered within the U.S. Forest service as well as firefighting history. The Mann Gulch fire occurred in Montana’s Helena National Forest, and prior to this incident, no smokejumper had ever died fighting a wildland fire. The fire, which was caused by lightning strike, was originally spotted at 12:25 pm. Due to the remote location and lack of roads; smokejumpers were dispatched to the incident. Forman Wagner (Wag) Dodge and his crew made their jump a few hours after the call.
Operation Arrowhead Ripper I was in my hooch listening to my IPod when my squad leader Sgt. Larson threw open the door; “Grab your gear we have a mission he yelled”. When the platoon arrived in the motor-pool we received our mission brief and loaded up in our Stryker’s; and headed for the front gate. The calm Iraq morning was soon interrupted with the sound of machine guns being locked and loaded and the war cries of a battalion of infantry men readying themselves for battle. We rolled out the east gate onto route Tampa and headed north for the city of Tal afar, our vehicle “Mohawk 1” was leading the convoy to the target.
I walked with Trevor. We joked around about the game, saying how my dad is and old man and all. This went on for the whole day besides the breaks we took because of the heat. It was one of the hottest days in July. Around noon everyone got a lunch break for around thirty minutes.
Recalling that the ground trembled recently, and noticing that the soil felt hot under his bare feet, he hurried to town to tell the mayor and to bring some people back with him. When they all returned, black was smoke billwoing from a hole 30 feet deep. The first explosion came that very night, shoting a thick column of smoke, ciders, and ash more than a mile into the air. More explosions followed every few seconds, throwing masses of rock that varied from the size of a walnut to size of a house. Lava began to flow to days later, and the newborn volcano continued yo erupt from many
All people in the hotel were getting out at this point, and the manager told the guests that probably was a volcano eruption. We were staying around the trailer and filming the whole event until a big explosion wiped out and the debris seems more serious. That was about 30 minutes after the first earthquake. Our team leader decided to go to the communication center and see if we can help or get help there as all the residents were tiding up and going to the center now. We were terrified but still shooting this great footage until the equipment team told us they used the wet towel stuffed the around the parts of the engine that would intake air when they started.
HAZMAT is present so you start prepping your BA. You arrive at the scene and are met by a large factory which is half ablaze with the other half bellowing with smoke. There are already other fire fighters present, who you notice have deployed the two in – two out tactic. The CO tasks your watch to enter the A side of the building and locate the manual switch for the sprinkler system which has failed to operate automatically. You enter the building and locate what you think is the sprinkler control, the smoke is
Her neighbors helped her out by getting the furniture and other valuables out of the burning house. The Maycomb’s old fire truck jammed on the route, had to be pushed by a crowd of men. By the time Maycomb’s fire truck reached to the site, a fire truck from Abbottsville County came and began pumping water on the house but soon the whole house collapsed and gushed fire all around. The fire was completely