Upon arrival, Chief 11-10 reported smoke showing from the second floor of a two story wood frame dwelling. The crew of Engine 11 advanced a 1 ¾” handline to side A and entered the structure on the ...

Greg Gorbett spends unmeasured hours building scale-model rooms, complete with furniture and fixtures. He then judiciously stacks wood cribbing inside and burns his creations. More often than not, he ...

One particularly tough circumstance that can stall an attack from the outset is a violent condition directly behind the door you are trying to gain access through. I refer not to just a “good fire” in ...

Dayton firefighters were forced to jump out of the way when a backdraft knocked chunks of drywall down during a firefighting operation. The backdraft happened after firefighters arrived at a burning ...

A backdraft explosion ripped through a burning home as firefighters fought the raging inferno. INSIDE EDITION talks to one witness who caught the nightmare on video. A chaotic scene was captured on ...

Four firefighters were burned in a backdraft that erupted during a blaze Sunday afternoon at a West Side residential building. The fire, in the 4900 block of West Potomac Avenue in the city’s Austin ...

Four firefighters suffered facial burns this afternoon while battling backdraft flames at a South Side coach house in Chicago’s Back of the Yards neighborhood. Chicago Fire Department personnel survey ...

A woman has been taken to hospital after she opened her door into her stairwell which was on fire and the backdraft blew into her Edinburgh flat. The woman was treated for smoke inhalation and an ...

Backdraft is the Top Gun of firefighting. And more. With Ron Howard directing, Backdraft is a densely textured story as concerned with sibling rivalry and political chicanery as it is with arson and ...

Backdraft” has spectacle, it has stars, it has love, death, pain and lots of fire. But what it needed most was a final draft. The movie, covering a heroic bunch of firefighters in Chicago, seems like ...