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The body of the 55 year old, Mark Lorentzen, was recovered from the water in Gothenburg on October 6th. Dead from apparent suicide. On October 15th one of the injured victims passed away. She was a retired nurse who had been treated in an intensive burn care unit since the explosion/fire.

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...

CCTV footage of the beginning of the fire can be viewed here: It looks like someone had a go with a handheld extinguisher but with limited effect. If the fire was being driven by pure oxygen I guess it’d be difficult to put it out.

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...

One LODD and two hospitalized firefighters. This was a bad one.

I guess part of the reason why the really tall aerials have gotten popular in some parts of the world recently is with the realization that some high rises have flammable cladding, following Grenfell Tower. NYC, from what I can gather, doesn’t really seem have that problem, so perhaps there’s...

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...

Do they want to have a small rig for instance in order to place it close to a wall and get it up where there's restrictions around it such as power lines? Bronto makes models where most of the action is done by the telescoping function so they can extend pretty much vertically without needing...

I thought I'd post a couple of videos of newer snorkels from Metz and Bronto in europe. So we can get some illustration of what we're talking about. First is a 32 meter (105 ft) Metz that's brand new, it's a video from a mid sized department in Sweden that's showing off their new rig. V?r nya...

I'm overseas in Sweden. Snorkel type aerials are sold by Bronto Skylift and Metz. The working height that is most common in new builds is 32 meters/104 feet but shorter and taller ones exist. Point taken grumpy grizzly, apart from in a few cities with street cars overhead wires is pretty much...

So any differences in capabilities between the snorkels and the towers aren't so to say in favor of the snorkels I take it. It's interesting, over here snorkels have gotten more and more common to the point that I believe they're now in a majority among the aerials. In the US on the other hand...

Has CFD ever considered buying or have gotten a taller snorkel for use as a work platform at some point? Like a 100 feet or more?

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...