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4-Alarm Lumber Yard Baltimore, MD 2-4-13 - BCFDphotoman - 02-07-2013
On Feb. 4th Baltimore firefighters responded to a fire at the Penn Lumber Company at 601 Pennsylvania Ave.just north of downtown.
Engine 23 was first on the scene and reported heavy smoke showing. There was limited access in the rear. A 3-story building stored with building materials was involved and went to 3 alarms in 19 minutes. About 20 minutes into the incident firefighters were ordered out of the building and without warning the whole building collapsed onto the men that had just exited, trapping several of them. One FF was on top of Truck 16 and was knocked off by bricks from the wall and a ground ladder that was up against it. BC 6 struck out a 4th alarm and declared a MAYDAY. The 5 firefighters were quickly rescued and none of them suffered any serious injuries. All of them were released from Shock Trauma by the following morning.
I had just arrived on the scene minutes after the collapse and photographed a couple of the guys being taken to the medic units.
Here is the scene as I came down the street:
4-Alarm Lumber Yard Baltimore, MD 2-4-13 - BCFDphotoman - 02-07-2013
Just as I approached the scene one of the guys was being taken to the Ambo:
4-Alarm Lumber Yard Baltimore, MD 2-4-13 - BCFDphotoman - 02-07-2013
Just minutes after the building collapsed:
4-Alarm Lumber Yard Baltimore, MD 2-4-13 - BCFDphotoman - 02-07-2013
You can see the bricks underneath that came down upon Truck 16:
4-Alarm Lumber Yard Baltimore, MD 2-4-13 - BCFDphotoman - 02-07-2013
Looking north from the south side:
4-Alarm Lumber Yard Baltimore, MD 2-4-13 - BCFDphotoman - 02-07-2013
Looking north from the south side:
4-Alarm Lumber Yard Baltimore, MD 2-4-13 - BCFDphotoman - 02-07-2013
Heres the damaged ladder on top of the bricks:
4-Alarm Lumber Yard Baltimore, MD 2-4-13 - BCFDphotoman - 02-07-2013
The fire was finally knocked down:
4-Alarm Lumber Yard Baltimore, MD 2-4-13 - BCFDphotoman - 02-07-2013
One of the photos disappeared!!
Again looking from the south side:
4-Alarm Lumber Yard Baltimore, MD 2-4-13 - BCFDphotoman - 02-07-2013
You can check out the rest on my site. Thanks for looking.
4-Alarm Lumber Yard Baltimore, MD 2-4-13 - BFD190 - 02-08-2013
Hope everyone is ok. This is could've been much worse... grt shots
4-Alarm Lumber Yard Baltimore, MD 2-4-13 - Guest - 02-08-2013
I was hoping you made it in there..how bad did it communicate to exposure 4??
4-Alarm Lumber Yard Baltimore, MD 2-4-13 - NRIfirePhotos - 02-08-2013
Great shots Howard! Hope all brothers recover quickly!!!
4-Alarm Lumber Yard Baltimore, MD 2-4-13 - Guest - 02-08-2013
Howard, any damage to the truck?
It's been 30 years since TRK16 got clobbered at the Hochschild-Kohn building. (2/17/1983)
4-Alarm Lumber Yard Baltimore, MD 2-4-13 - BCFDphotoman - 02-08-2013
Just from what I saw at the fire it didn't look like any major damage. I saw someone elses photos later in the fire and they had the cab tilted checking underneath and all.
Didn't look too bad.
4-Alarm Lumber Yard Baltimore, MD 2-4-13 - hank - 02-08-2013
Good photos!
tHANKs
4-Alarm Lumber Yard Baltimore, MD 2-4-13 - Cyber - 02-09-2013
Good stuff!
And again...glad that all FFs were rescued and OK!
4-Alarm Lumber Yard Baltimore, MD 2-4-13 - Guest - 02-09-2013
Good photos Howard!!
4-Alarm Lumber Yard Baltimore, MD 2-4-13 - Guest - 02-09-2013
Good shots.
4-Alarm Lumber Yard Baltimore, MD 2-4-13 - Guest - 02-11-2013
Great job Howard! Shame I missed all the fire by like 5-10 minutes... Looks like you and Paul Novak got the best shots out of this one.