NFPA Journal - Fall 2021 - 75
FIRE INCIDENTS FROM NFPA FILES
Compiled and written by
Richard Campbell,
NFPA Research Group
Firefighters were dispatched following
a 911 call from the motorist at 7
a.m. While crews were en route, police
responding to an earlier hang-up call
from inside the residence reported that
fire was showing from the home's front
porch area, and the fire department
requested a second alarm.
Arriving crews found the victim in
her driveway and reported heavy fire
from the front porch and one corner of
a single-story residence. Medics were
summoned to the scene and transported
the victim to a local hospital,
where the woman died later in the day.
Firefighters pulled hoses and
knocked down the fire on the front
porch, then made entry through the
front door. Inside, they found fire conditions
running back to a bedroom and
extending into the attic. Interior crews
extinguished fire on the first floor and
began attacking fire in the attic after
gaining access through a pull-down
stairway.
In the attic, crews found that fire had
spread through an excessive amount
of stored material, complicating extinguishment
efforts and creating difficult
overhaul conditions. Extinguishment
and overhaul were completed only after
incident command issued a call for a
third alarm.
Investigators determined that the fire
began in a bedroom and indicated an
unspecified electrical cause.
The house was equipped with a battery-operated
smoke alarm, but it was
not operating when the fire department
arrived.
The house was a wood construction
with an asphalt roof cover. It occupied
a ground floor area of 1,100 square feet
(102 square meters).
The house was valued at $105,700.
No information was available on dollar
losses caused by the fire.
MARYLAND
Electrical cord blamed for fatal
house fire
One man died in an apartment fire
ignited by heat from a pinched electrical
cord. News reports indicated that
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