Follow Up on Toronto Fire
Photo: John Hanley
Remember the fire pictures from the house fire in Toronto, Canada, where the firefighters were escaping from a second story window onto a dormer? This incident is going to be featured on the cover of Firehouse magazine. Here is an article from Firehouse.com with more details of the incident along with pictures and video.
Without warning, heavy fire conditions appeared on the first floor and the front hallway quickly became fully involved. Fire raced up the stairs and cut off the crew's only method of egress. They had very little time to escape the fast-moving flames, so they entered a front bedroom, broke out the window and began, one by one, to climb out onto a small snow- and ice-covered dormer roof.
After looking at all of the pictures this next statement really puts things into perspective:
The whole sequence of events occurred in less than two minutes.
Whoa - that is fast and the firefighters did a good job of getting out and avoiding serious injuries or fatalities.
I'm looking forward to seeing the article in the magazine.
The photographer, John Hanley, has a website of his fire photos called Toronto Fire Pics. Good pictures - check it out.
