Big Bozrah Barn Blaze

Around 1300 on January 28, 2023, the Bozrah (CT) Fire Department and mutual aid responded to Schwarts Road fora commercial building fire. Heavy smoke was noticed across town as the tones dropped. First arriving engine found a 400-foot-long barn 50-percent involved with several barns as exposures. Knowing there was limited watersupply, a second alarm forextra tankers was requested. As companies arrived and watersources via draft sites and tankershuttles began to come online, ladderpipes and blitz fires were set up. The fire ran t he full 400 feet and only a small section of a building 10-feet away had extension. Command requested three tankertask-forces to shuttle water, and the fire was contained in about three hours. The exact cause was being investigated.

- Fire News photo by Robert Ladd CFPA

Smithfield 3-Alarmer

Smithfield (RI) firefighters responded to Log Road on March 8, 2023, fora kitchen fire. Deputy Chief Steve Quattrini arrived to find heavy smoke showing from a large 2-1/2 story wood frame with all occupants evacuated. There was visible extending fire showing from the Delta sidewall from division 1 to the attic space. The house was built with balloon style framing which aided in the vertical spread of the fire. Companies stretched in several handlines to attack the fire on the 1st and 2nd divisions. Tower3 opened the steep pitched roof as mutual aid companies began to arrive on the third alarm. FASTmembers from Lincoln Fire set up fire escape ladders and softened the buildi ng. The fire extended into the attic space and knee walls on the third division before being brought undercontrol. The cause of the fire was determined to be extension from a wood stove in the kitchen.

- Fire News photo by Ken LaBelle