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Post by PUMP on Jan 6, 2008 11:15:33 GMT -5
I just got off the phone with an FF in the Hospital after this incident...
Captain James Robson was killed this morning during a working house fire at 810 Ash Street In the City Of Scranton, PA. An elderly Couple also died in the Mid morning fire.
Two other Firemen are also in the Hospital with injuries after the Job...
Firefighter, Elderly Couple Killed After Fire in Scranton
Sunday, January 6, 11:11 a.m.
The Scranton fire chief confirmed a 22-year veteran of the Scranton Fire Department died while fighting a blaze Sunday morning in Lackawanna County. Officials also said an elderly couple was killed.
Investigators said the fire started at an apartment building on Ash Street around 7:15 Sunday morning.
Officials said Captain Jim Robson, a 22-year veteran of the department, was killed while trying to help fight the fire. Robson was in the bucket of a ladder truck when the bucket came in contact with power lines. Two other firefighters were also injured in the incident.
The Scranton fire chief also confirmed that an elderly couple died in the fire.
State police will now be investigating what caused the deadly fire in Scranton.
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Post by PUMP on Jan 6, 2008 16:19:06 GMT -5
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Post by truckman on Jan 6, 2008 19:57:56 GMT -5
Capt. rest in peace to the family and friends my thoughts and prayers are with you.
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Post by irons on Jan 8, 2008 12:53:05 GMT -5
May he rest in peace.
Now lets take an opportunity to not cast blame....but to learn from this. Look at that picture, the cause of death right there is lack of common sense.
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Post by eng451 on Jan 8, 2008 22:45:56 GMT -5
May he rest in peace. Now lets take an opportunity to not cast blame....but to learn from this. Look at that picture, the cause of death right there is lack of common sense. May the Captain rest in peace and I offer my condolances to his family and the members of his department. Scene safety ensures we all go home to those we love. |
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Post by smokeater342 on Jan 9, 2008 0:30:24 GMT -5
Rest in peace Cap....my thoughts and prayers go out to his family, friends and fellow brothers...
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Post by PUMP on Jan 9, 2008 15:52:36 GMT -5
I guess hitting powerlines in Scranton happens more often then we thought...
FROM SCRANTON TIMES:
Retired city firefighter Frank Stevens knows how quickly a fire scene can change, and how quickly that can change everything.
Twelve years ago this month, on Jan. 17, 1996, Mr. Stevens was connecting a 2½-inch hose to a firetruck outside a burning South Main Avenue apartment building as another firefighter raised the vehicle’s bucket.
It’s unclear what happened next — whether electricity arced from a 12,000-volt line or the bucket brushed the live wire — but the electrical jolt that ripped through the truck caused the tires to catch fire and left a severely burned Mr. Stevens sprawled on the ground.
He lost two fingers on his left hand and his left big toe. Nerve damage limits use of his severely burned left arm.
“When you respond to something like that, it’s always there in the back of your head — that things can change at any time,” Mr. Stevens said Monday, a day after Capt. James Robeson, 50, was electrocuted and three other firefighters were injured in a similar accident.
“You’re trying to do your best to stay safe, but you’re out there doing your job.”
Although it may seem counter-intuitive, given that electricity and water are a dangerous mix, electrocution is an infrequent cause of death among firefighters.
Of the 89 firefighters killed in the line of duty nationwide in 2006, the most recent year for which information is available, only one was electrocuted, according the National Fire Protection Association. From 1997 through 2006, just 13 firefighters died by electrocution in 10 separate incidents.
“That is out of roughly 100 (firefighter deaths) or so a year,” spokesman Carl Peterson said. “A lot of these kinds of things, they aren’t big numbers, but cumulatively, they add up.”
Before Sunday’s accident, it had been nearly 26 years since an area firefighter was electrocuted. Joseph Paul Czerw, a 28-year-old volunteer firefighter in Taylor, was killed Feb. 27, 1982, when he bumped a high-voltage wire while atop an aerial ladder at a residential fire in the borough.
In 1969, five Scranton firefighters suffered burns when an aerial ladder came into contact with a 33,000-volt line at the Scranton Army Ammunition Plant on Cedar Avenue.
Mr. Peterson said firefighters who use ladders and other aerial apparatus are trained to watch out for overhead hazards and the equipment itself is usually marked with warnings.
“Unfortunately, warning signs become part of the background,” he said. “People get focused on moving it rather than where they are moving it.”
Mr. Stevens, 42, who worked with Capt. Robeson at various times over the years, said if you’re a member of a truck company, potential electrical hazards are always in the back of your mind. But you’re still relying on utility companies “and what (the workers) are telling you they are doing.”
After more than two years of recuperation, Mr. Stevens returned to work in 1998 as a fire investigator. He retired in 2002. His biggest fear, he said, is whether the three injured firefighters will have permanent injuries like his.
“One thing I can tell you is, we have a great bunch of guys and girls (in the department), and we’ll stick together with them and help them through,” he said. “I know they did it for me.”
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Post by irons on Jan 12, 2008 23:24:59 GMT -5
From what i am hearing the power company Rep also told command that the power to the lines was killed....... So they laddered up and the rest is LODD History.
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Post by resq7eng7 on Jan 14, 2008 21:23:39 GMT -5
hi guys i'm only 15 minutes from Scranton and know alot of the people involved in this incident from the Captain himself, the Chief of the SFD to the Paramedics that handled the resuscitation efforts. This was a very bad incident from the get go and I know that some of the members and medical personel are not doing well. I attended Jim's service and I have never, in almost 20 years of this seen such a turnout. Washington D.C., FDNY, Altoona, Chesapeake Va, Brockton Mass, Ottowa Canada etc ........ We will all miss "the Jimmer" he was the textbook definition of a firefighter.
"comm center to Truck 2" and silence followed ........
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