The Radio Rings Out, By Raymond Fire Call

Matthew E. Barnes was a firefighter who could be called many things including a hero, a friend, a husband, a father and even an angel. The story begins like many 9/11 stories do, with the planes being hijacked, he was one of the men working that day in the New York City Fire Department that would go into the World Trade Center, but would never come out. The 37-year old resident of Monroe, New York was a father to three boys and the husband to Ms. Susan Barnes; he would spend all his available time with his family, somehow slipping out of chores and such just to go fishing with his boys. Two years before the 9/11 he had saved two twins, Isabella and Jacob Kalodner from a fire in their mother, Linda Kalodner’s apartment, by climbing up a 100-foot aerial ladder to the 10th story to save the 6 week old twins.

     The fire spread from the O’Learys’ barn to the yards nearby. Soon it was spreading throughout the neighborhood. William Lee, a neighbor a block away, saw the fire and ran to Bruno Goll’s drugstore to turn in the fire alarm. Bruno Goll refused to turn in the alarm because he said the fire truck had already gone past. So instead of arguing, Lee went home to his family. At the courthouse the lookout on duty saw smoke, but thought nothing of it, thinking it was just Saturday's fire and there was no reason to be alarmed. Then he looked up and noticed it was a different fire and had his assistant strike the Box 342 for the fire department. Soon fire trucks were at the scene and attempted to put out the fire. The fire department’s Chief Marshal, Robert A. Williams got the engines to circle the fire to contain it. They got as close to the fire as they could until their arm hair was being burned and their

Fisher wakes up to the smell of smoke. After searching with no conclusion to what is the cause of the smoke, she calls the Lake Windsor Fire Department to see what the cause is of this smoke. The firefighter that shows up ~20 minutes later explains to her that it is a muck fire and that she is going to have to learn to deal with it. She is appalled by this and asks if there is anything they can do. They say no.

The survivors of September 9, 2001 will never be the same. While they may be emotionally scarred from the traumatic event, physical scars will also remain on their body. Bruno Dillinger describes that many evacuators lacked skin and hair, and that many evacuators were severely burnt. Despite all the mayhem and chaos, the people in the stairwell kept their wits with them. They did not panic; they were calm. Bruno Dillinger’s description of the first responders walking up the stairs was heartbreaking. He commented, “They were going up to their death. And I was walking down to live.” Despite the fear the firefighters and other responders felt, they rose to the occasion in order to save the lives of many others. The bravery the firefighters and

It’s awful to see. Jonas thought, but this really is New York at its best. Everybody is doing the right thing, and they 're doing it without being told. Before the men made it to the 12th floor, Jonas and his men had responded to two separate Mayday ( distress- signal ) messages. In both cases a firefighter needed help because he had chest pains from the climb. When Jonas reached the 27th floor he met Captain Billy Burke from Engine 21 and firefighter Andy Fredericks from squad 18.

In fact the society make it very dangerous for every fireman, traffic is a major hazard, highways, social media and their lack of sleep. This show an everyday the situation of a fireman because it 's been argued that the schedules in the fire department does not fit to the distance that they need to travel from home to work. In that regard, social media is becoming an hinderance when they get film and goes viral to the point that the firefighters personal privacy is exposed in the internet. Firefighters have been exposed more than usual when they are on duty, working or even just being out their work. While exploring into their field they seemed frustrate when every person that use the media to laugh at them when they try to

On October 15, 1910 the factory has a mandatory fire inspection and they pass. A month later, a fire in Newark kills twenty-five workers. This stimulates fire prevention efforts in buildings but again, this warning is ignored. January 15, 1911 is the last time prior to the fire that garbage is taken from the factory. On March 16, another report warning of improper safety standards in New York buildings is published. However, like previous warnings, it is again ignored. Nine days later, at 4:45 PM, just before workers would be released, a fire breaks out on the eighth floor. This fire will take the lives of a 146 unfortunate victims. Most of these victims are those of young woman. Six minutes later, the New York Fire Department (NYFD) arrives on site. By this time, the fire is spreading up to the ninth and tenth floors, which also belong to the Triangle Shirtwaist Company. Those on the eighth floor quickly head down and those on the tenth floor flee to the roof. However, most workers who were on the ninth floor are stranded, unable to move up or down. By 4:47 PM, the last of the bodies from the ninth floor land on the sidewalk, falling from the ninth floor ledge. It is not until 5:05 PM, that the fire is finally taken under control and ten minutes later is described as “all over.” (Stein. Triangle Fire) NYFD fighters head to all the top floors of the building finding many severely burned bodies. Mobs of

One man saw the fire and tried to get someone to use the fire box to get the fire department to send a fire truck. Sadly he had no such luck in notifying them. Fire boxes were boxes located on the street corner for people to use to alert the closest fire department, because telephones were not commonly available at that time. The other man just insisted that a fire truck had probably already been called and was on its way. The fire was so destructive because there were many mistakes and dangerous

Fisher and paul watched an old red fire engine cruising slowly up and down the streets. The fire engine turned in there direction. They waved and hollered and manages to attract the driver’s attention. When the engine rolled up in front of our house and the driver got out, he came alone. He had on knee-high black and yellow boots, a pair of cutoff shorts, and a white t-shirt that had Tangerine Volunteer Fire Department Wayne written over breast pocket.

The crew was not prepared for the fire when it suddenly arrived. A wave of fire, heat, and smoke over took them by surprise, Eight of the crew deployed their shelters on the road and the two civilians took shelter with one of the crew members. The squad boss was high above the road in the rock scree watching the fire. He ran down towards the road but couldn’t get there before the fire arrived, He turned around and ran back up the slope were the other four crew members and the crew boss was.

During the month of October, 2008 we lost another fire fighter in a residential structure fire. The Victim was a 24 Y/O male fire fighter from Alabama who had been a volunteer with the department for two years. The firefighter training seemed to be standard for a new volunteer in the area which he served. As always it is tragic to lose a fire fighter and as always we try to learn from it.

Three stories of a ten-floor building a the corner of Greens Street and Washington Place were burned yesterday, and while the fire was going on 141 young men and women at least 125 of them mere girls were burned to death or killed by jumping to the pavement below. The building was fireproof. The fire except the furniture and 141 of the 600 men and girls that were employed in its upper three stories. The victims were suffocated or burned to death within the building, but some who found their way to the windows and leaped met death as surely, but perhaps more quickly, on the pavements below.

For years if not decades, firefighters have responded to a reported structure fire that turned out to be a fully involved single room. This fire scenario requires a core set of fire tactics and skills to control and extinguished the fire, but is it this simple? Perhaps twenty years it may have been, but new dangers are lurking in every scenario and may have detrimental outcomes for unsuspecting and unaware firefighters and victims. The National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST) agency along with the Underwriters Laboratory (UL) have been conducting research to understand fire behavior and fire dynamics. This research is providing firefighters with new information about how and why

On Tuesday, 1965,a burning church in Windrixville, Oklahoma contained 5 young children.Fortunately the kids got saved by 3 gallant teenagers, Ponyboy Curtis, Johnny Cade, and Dallas Winston. They were heroic by going through the church window and getting all of them to safety.They only did it because there friend Ponyboy decided to save them. Ponyboy said “I could not have left all those children in there. I would have risked my life to save all of them.”Johnny Cade unfortunately, had mortal wounds after getting the children out. Johnny had gotten hit by a burning piece of timber which may leave him paralyzed.Dallas and Ponyboy’s injuries were not as severe. Witness ambulance office Jerry,said “ These teenagers were the bravest people I ever

On September 25th , 1965 Three Juvenile delinquents named Ponyboy Curtis, Johnny Cade, and Dallas Winston saved five kids from a burning church in Windrixville. The kids were going on a field trip to Windrixville and one of their stops was the St. James church. We interviewed one of the teachers named Brian Quinn and asked what happened. “The kids ran into the church and they were running way ahead and we had to try to keep up. After they ran in the fire began and we called 911,” said Brian. “Before the Fire Department came, two teenagers and a man ran into the church and got the kids out,” said Brian. We then asked one of the kids named Jordy Wheeler what