Fire on the first floor runs the pipe chases

Fire showing and threatening the exposure

Deputy Chief Ron Ayotte says if you love the job, keep it growing When I got on the job with 4 other probies back in November of 1981, one of the first things we were told by the senior guys as we walked in the door was “you (expletive) new guys are going to ruin […]

William Schnaekel adds on to what is burning above us.

Exposure problems and burning rear decks cause eight and two-alarms

Rockford firefighters were told of two people inside

Lloyd Mitchell photography on the scene of two working fires 

Despite the Boston tragedy, the fireground was once again the exception to where the most victims died.