{"id":2936,"date":"2011-03-04T21:30:29","date_gmt":"2011-03-05T05:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/?p=2936"},"modified":"2011-03-04T21:30:29","modified_gmt":"2011-03-05T05:30:29","slug":"firefighters-battle-a-two-story-inferno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/?p=2936","title":{"rendered":"Firefighters Battle a Two Story Inferno"},"content":{"rendered":"ngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n<p>Long Beach Fire Department (LBFD) units were dispatched on the afternoon of March 4, 2011 at 1:19PM, for reports of an apartment fire on the 2600 block of E. 56<sup>th<\/sup> Street.\u00a0 Truck 11 arrived in less than three minutes to find a two-story apartment unit that was fully involved with heavy black smoke and fire pouring out of all of the windows and doors on both floors.\u00a0 This produced a thick dark column of smoke could be seen from miles away.\u00a0 Firefighters quickly threw a ladder to the roof to begin ventilation operations to allow the super heated smoke and fire to exit the structure and improve conditions for Firefighters in the fiery blaze below.\u00a0 Engine 12 immediately pulled a hose line through the front door to aggressively attack the raging inferno inside.\u00a0 Just as other units were arriving on scene, the Incident Commander called for an additional Engine for extra manpower because of the shear amount of fire that was present.\u00a0 The fire burned so hot inside that it weakened the internal staircase and two Firefighters partially fell through the steps.\u00a0 The fall caused one Firefighter to burn his gloved hand on a scorching hot metal railing as he was advancing the hose-line upstairs.\u00a0 Once they had knocked down the fire, the Firefighters quickly conducted a primary search for victims.\u00a0 Fortunately no one was inside at the time of the fire and there were no injuries or victims.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The hard work and brave efforts of these Firefighters kept the surrounding units of this apartment complex from being engulfed by flames.\u00a0 The conditions inside were so intense that two Firefighters suffered minor burns to their ears, neck, and hand.\u00a0 They were evaluated on scene by Paramedics and returned to duty.\u00a0 The LBFD Fire Investigators determined the cause of this fire to be arson.\u00a0 A suspect was arrested by Long Beach Police Department (LBPD) officers and booked for arson.\u00a0 The total damages incurred were estimated at over $350,000.\u00a0 Additional to the Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) and LBPD, there were a total of 14 LBFD units and 29 personnel operating on scene of this incident that occurred in the 8<sup>th<\/sup> Council District.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long Beach Fire Department (LBFD) units were dispatched on the afternoon of March 4, 2011 at 1:19PM, for reports of an apartment fire on the 2600 block of E. 56th Street.\u00a0 Truck 11 arrived in less than three minutes to find a two-story apartment unit that was fully involved with heavy black smoke and fire [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-incidents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2936"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2941,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2936\/revisions\/2941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}