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Embrace the kaboom. ;)

Just have to coordinate things to make sure that there isn’t anyone directly below when you set it off. Fairly often the type of buildings they blast have a concrete floor between the attic and the top floor so the danger is primarily in the attic space. The safe distance on the outside (ie not...

It happen on a few occasions in Sweden during the late 19th/early 20th century. Firebreaks during major conflagrations among wooden buildings, but in those cases it was military troops that actually executed the blasts rather than the fire department itself.

It’s not a new thing for Stockholm, they’ve been doing that for several decades at least. Around 50-60 years IIRC.

Not sure if this is the right forum, but I thought some might find this interesting. The Greater Stockholm Fire Department (Storstockholms Brandförsvar) in Sweden has a bit of a unique ”tool” that they use now and again. Explosive filled frames that they ventilate roofs with when they’re of a...

1990 is correct, just me getting two things confused in my head.

This is a fifteen minute long overview of the firefighting operations at the 1990 drydock fire aboard the large passenger ferry Sally Albatross, at Finnboda shipyard in Sweden. Pretty complicated fire that took some time, and to a degree some unconventional approaches, to get under control.

The memorial service:

Caporal-chef (Sergeant) Dorian Damelincourt

Rest in peace, terrible with these mass riots going on in France now.

The fire is still going five days in. While using monitors helps contain the fire they can’t put it out entirely. Earlier today there were signs of the fire starting to spead further than before as well. In order to put it out entirely it seems like the ship will have to be brought into port...

Fire is still going, over 30 hours now. Some additional photos: Firefighters are still aboard and there appears to be two larger Coast Guard vessels, four tugboats and a SAR boat by the burning ship at the moment. An earlier attempt to do water drops from helicopters failed due to strong...

A merchant ship loaded with timber, the Liberian flagged Almirante Storni, has been on fire off the port of Gothenburg for about 18 hours now at the time of this post. The fire is in the timber and numerous resources have been involved in the firefighting operations, which are now finally...

An unusually severe fire in the small town of Ånge (pop. ~3,000), Sweden this morning. Fire broke out in a four story apartment building with 18 apartments. It seems to have started in one apartment and rapidly spread to several others and the roof. The rapid spread is surprising, because from...

If you’re interested, here’s another video showings parts of the operations at a more severe Paris fire in 2019: This one unfortunately claimed ten lives, though firefighters rescued around 40 trapped residents. Some rescues conducted by lowering people with ropes to the ground, which isn’t...

Yeah, I’m not familiar with the details of the construction of these buildings in Paris, but I know that in Stockholm, Sweden, there’s a lot of complications with the large 19th century/early 20th century multiple dwellings. One of these is the inclusion of reeds as a binding agent in the...

Nine firefighters are trapped in a cave outside of Altinopolis, Brazil, after it caved in while they were conducting a training exercise there. A total of 26 firefighters were reported to have been inside the cave when the collapse occurred, the remainder having been able to get out with some...

These aerials are being put into service as a response to the Grenfell Tower fire, where a number of residents were trapped on the upper floors with firefighters unable to reach them in time. With these ladders it would probably have been possible to reach at least some of the victims. The...