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I’m curious what people think of these. I think that they’re more of a thing in Europe than in North America, but at a glance it seems that some departments in the US is using or has used them at some point in time. From my point of view they’re one of those things that rarely saves anyone in...

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...

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.

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

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...

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...

I was wondering if anyone knows if there was every any trials or similar of pull boxes with both a telegraph and telephone function prior to the ERS era? I’ve seen a few examples of old pull boxes like this from some places in the world, and I was just curious if the FDNY ever experimented with...

Some reports say that the fire started where the oxygen supply was stored, and an explosion followed with very rapid fire spread. The hospital is said to not have had adequate fire safety precautions. —————————————————— 82 dead in Iraq Covid hospital fire, 110 wounded: ministry AFP / Omni 25...

Not sure if this is in the right sub-forum but I'll give it a go: As you may have notived there was a terrorist attack in Stockholm, Sweden last week on Friday. A man hijacked a truck and drove it down a pedestrian street, Drottninggatan, killing four and injuring 19 along the way. A...

A large forest fire erupted in the province of V?stmanland, Sweden on July 31st and is still raging as of today. At the moment the fire breaks are holding but extremely hot and dry weather means that spreading will resume if the wind picks up. Currently some 37,000 acres have burned with 1,200...

Hi everyone, I posted some Swedish firefighting videos to the firehouse.com forums a few years ago that seemed to interest some people so I'll have a go here at posting one and see if anyone is interested. Video from a major fire at the KTH school of architecture - ironically a very ugly...