Career Lieutenant and Career Fire Fighter Die and Four Career Fire Fighters are Seriously Injured during a Three Alarm Apartment Fire – New York [revised 2007-01-05]

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• Personal Author:
  Berardinelli, Stephen P. Jr. ; Lutz, Virginia ; McFall, Mark F. ; Romano, Nancy T. ; Griffin, Chris
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fire Fighter Fatality Investigation and Prevention Program (FFFIPP)
• Description:
  Death in the Line of Duty…a Summary of a NIOSH Fire Fighter Fatality Investigation
  
  On January 23, 2005, a 46-year-old male career Lieutenant (Victim #1) and a 37-year-old male career fire fighter (Victim #2) died, and four career fire fighters were injured during a three alarm fire in a four story apartment building. The victims and injured fire fighters were searching for any potentially trapped occupants on the floor above the fire. The fire started in a third floor apartment and quickly extended to the fourth floor. Fire fighters had been on the scene less than 30 minutes when they became trapped by advancing fire and were forced to exit through the fourth floor windows. The six fire fighters were transported to metropolitan hospitals where the two victims were later pronounced dead. NIOSH investigators concluded that, to minimize the risk of similar occurrences, fire departments should: 1. review and follow existing standard operating procedures (SOPs) for structural fire fighting to ensure that fire fighters operating in hazardous areas have charged hoselines
  
  2. ensure that fire fighters are trained on the hazards of operating on the floor above the fire without a charged hoseline and follow associated standard operating procedures (SOPs)
  
  3. ensure that fire fighters conducting interior operations provide the incident commander with progress reports
  
  4. ensure that team continuity is maintained during interior operations
  
  5. review and follow existing standard operating procedures (SOPs) for incident commanders to divide up functions during complex incidents
  
  6. ensure that Mayday transmissions are prioritized and fire fighters are trained on initiating Mayday radio transmissions immediately when they become trapped inside a structure
  
  7. develop standard operating procedures (SOPs) for fire fighting operations during high wind conditions
  
  8. provide fire fighters with the appropriate safety equipment, such as escape ropes, and associated training in jurisdictions where high-rise fires are likely. Additionally, building owners should follow current building codes for the safety of occupants and fire fighters.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Emergency Responders Firefighters Fires Occupational Health Safety Safety Management
• Keywords:
  Accident-prevention Emergency-responders Fire-fighters Fire-fighting Fire-fighting-equipment Fire-hazards Fire-safety Injuries Injury-prevention OSHA Region 2 Safety-education Safety-measures Safety-practices Surveillance Traumatic-injuries

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• FACE - Firefighter:
  Cause of Death: Trauma ; Structure Fire: Residential
• Series:
  Fire Fighter Fatality Investigation and Prevention Program (FFFIPP)
• Subseries:
  Death in the Line of Duty Report
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHFFFACEF200503
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study ; Report
• Place as Subject:
  New York ; OSHA Region 2
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DSR - Division of Safety Research
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-20
• Contributor:
  Dunn, Vincent ; Goldfeder, William
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20031339
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2007-103712
• Citation:
  Morgantown, WV: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, FACE F2005-03, 2006 Dec ; :1-20
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2007
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  92 - Public Administration - (NAICS)
• Start Date:
  2005/01/23
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:d9edc2997447277d79e1c73d4fc04769fcc61332751b978278cc1358420cb5356a4a6639f31b9b515e4ab2742d9a9d7547b72613cff10cd9f641b016f75b56e2
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/163671/cdc_163671_DS1.pdf
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  [PDF - 374.89 KB ]