LAFD Building Fire/Collapse

	Duration: 08:24 minutes Upload Time: 07-07-17 04:18:15 User: toastt21 :::: Favorites
Description: Here's one for the ages... LAFD gets EXTREMELY lucky here - A 2 story commercial in downtown with an add-on wood frame second floor comes crashing down on firefighters after about 20 minutes of active fire. Multiple firefighters were pinned/injured with one receiving serious injuries. That no one was killed made this a good day. At the time of collapse, I was shooting fire thru a window...A hose line darkened the fire down and I slowly pulled out and hit my pause button JUST as the building came down... I've slo-mo'd it at the end of the clip so you can see it coming. A shame I didn't roll just a tad longer.
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1f5sda ::: Favorites Which engine companies and ladder companies were there? Be well! 07-08-11 19:04:52 _____________________________________________________
LAFiregirl ::: Favorites Looks like 4's and 10's... 07-08-16 01:05:19 _____________________________________________________
1f5sda ::: Favorites okay! Thanks and be well! 07-08-16 15:54:08 _____________________________________________________
toastt21 ::: Favorites It's been many years, but once the building collapsed, the response was massive... There were companies from all over metro L.A. that were at this fire... The original response was TF9, TF10, LF3, E11, Squad 4, and BC1...It went to a greater alarm after that and then Major Emergency when the building fell 07-08-16 17:10:25 _____________________________________________________
1f5sda ::: Favorites Thanks! 07-08-16 17:55:30 _____________________________________________________
RobCurtisPhoto ::: Favorites This fire was in 1995 in downtown L.A. The firefighter suffered frommany injuries including compression fractures of his spine, a broken leg, internal injuries to name a few... He is still hampered by some of these injuries but is working in the field as a Captain on the LAFD. 07-07-20 19:17:41 _____________________________________________________
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lacofd101 ::: Favorites nice fire 07-07-20 01:44:49 _____________________________________________________
VX2100DV ::: Favorites Excellent video/story. Did this go national? 07-07-17 22:34:30 _____________________________________________________
toastt21 ::: Favorites Yes...CNN and the 3 majors- I don't think Fox and the others were in business yet lol 07-07-18 10:46:34 _____________________________________________________
alder197728 ::: Favorites how is the firefighter that was hurt? 07-07-17 12:59:42 _____________________________________________________