NIOSH Report on 2005 LODDs in NY
NIOSH has released the report regarding the incident where six FDNY firefighters were forced to jump out 4th story windows.
On January 23, 2005, a 46-year-old male career Lieutenant (Victim #1) and a 37-year-old male career fire fighter (Victim #2) died, and four career fire fighters were injured during a three alarm fire in a four story apartment building. The victims and injured fire fighters were searching for any potentially trapped occupants on the floor above the fire. The fire started in a third floor apartment and quickly extended to the fourth floor. Fire fighters had been on the scene less than 30 minutes when they became trapped by advancing fire and were forced to exit through the fourth floor windows. The six fire fighters were transported to metropolitan hospitals where the two victims were later pronounced dead.
There were a ton of contributing factors including poor water supply, gusty winds, and evacuations of civilians. This report is a must read.
