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.

On the morning of Thursday November 4th, a group of firemen were called to an old lady’s

     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

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.

The 16 and 14 year old boys who had killed a young 17 year old boy were supposenly hidding from the authoratises at the church and when they came back from having lunch they saw the fire and rushed to go save the children without thinking since they think that they had caused the fire in the first place and werent there to stop it.

The weather at the time was mostly cloudy at approximately 45 degrees fahrenheit with a relative humidity of 62 percent. Wind averaged to be about 10 miles per hour from the northwest. The Battalion Chief arrived in less than a minute to size up that there was heavy smoke coming from the front and rear of the attic with fire in the rear. At 1719 Hours E123 which was Herbies Engine arrives on scene. At this time BC19 assumed incident command and spoke with one of the occupants to be informed that everyone was out of the building. Herbie along with a firefighter (pipeman) advanced a 1¾ inch hose line to the second floor. Fire appeared on the stairwell because a firefighter opened multiple doors to the rear covered porch. That firefighter did not inform command or his commanding officer of what he had seen. This led to a delayed discovery that the entire stairwell was engulfed in fire. A captain on the first floor informed Herbie that there was fire in the rear covered porch and stairwell over the radio. There was no reply by Herbie to confirm he got the message, but companies carried on. Meanwhile, around 1723 Hours, E49 applies water in the rear attic window with a 2 ½ inch hose, SQ5 makes entry through the front door, and TL39 began cutting the first hole in the roof. All these steps almost immediately lead to chaos for Herbie and his firefighter. Ventilation was not being controlled and nobody knew exactly where Herbie was positioned. He and his pipeman

Recently, I just finished reading Through The Fire by Shawn Grady, Shawn has served for than a decade as a firefighter and paramedic in Reno, NV, where he lives with his wife and three children. He was named “most promising writer” at the 2008 Mt. Hermon writers conference. This is his debut novel.

The video for this week’s application exercise was about the 1911 New York Triangle Fire where a factory caught fire killing many of the workers that were trapped in the building. The fire caused the people of New York to realize the women that died, could not die in vain. When the women went on striking, because of their working conditions, most were beaten up by hired people and sent to court where they potentially faced a fine, jail time, or they were sent to the workhouse on Blackwell’s Island. The women were ambushed by the fire, because no one thought to warn the women that a fire had occurred, everyone else was given time to leave, but the women. Everyone was horrified of the things they had seen during the fire, and were really trying to help the women that were trapped. The impact of the

BANG!, as everyone is running away in fear there is a couple brave souls that run towards the fire to help the ones in need. Bravery is not something you say you have it is earned. It is an action that happens very quickly and may not be something you want to do. Also you risk opportunities or other things to help someone in need.