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4 Alarms at East Bay Lumber Yard

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A 4-ALARM FIRE DURING THE  SATURDAY SHOPPING TIME destroyed a Walnut Creek, California, lumber yard and home improvement center.

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Contra Costa Times

The fire was discovered around 1:30 pm when an explosion-like sound was heard and fire broke through the building housing the Piedmont Lumber Co. warehouse.  The business is located on N. Main St. near the city center.  The spectacular blaze brought traffic to a halt in the entire downtown area as streets were shut down to allow for the FD operations.

The fire spread into the showroom area and destroyed that as well.  Ir was five hours before the fire was completely knocked down. 

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CBS5

No estimates have been released yet on damages.  Piedmont has three other locations including a trade-only store in Pittsburg that also had a major fire this past August.

The Contra Costa Times has the STORY.

Posted by firegeezer on March 14, 2010 • Filed under: Fires, fire • Tagged: , ,

Fire Ravages CTV Network News Studios

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A FIRE ON SUNDAY MORNING DESTROYED A MAJOR PORTION of the CTV television network newsrooms in Ottawa, Ontario. 

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CTV Ottawa

The fire was first detected at 4:30 am on the 2nd-floor and has caused at least $2.5 million in damage.  The network spokeman says that the number could go much higher because of the high value of some of the equipment.  In addition, most of the news archives was destroyed.

Seventy firefighters worked the 4-alarm fire bringing it under control in about two hours. District Fire Chief Jim Corrigan said, “We managed to contain the fire to the second-story of the building. However, smoke migration made it to the fifth floor.”

CTV has two other broadcast facilities in Ottawa and will be able to continue broadcasting their news programming from one of those.  The network is trucking in replacement equipment from their facilities in Montreal, Toronto, and Saskatchewan.

The Canadian Press provided a bit of background history of the network’s early days:

CJOH TV, which signed on back on March 12, 1961, broadcast the first “Question Period” and was home to shows such as “You Can’t Do That on Television” – which was Alanis Morissette’s first television show – “The Galloping Gourmet”, “The Amazing Kreskin,” as well as two soap operas.

The late ABC “World News Tonight” anchor Peter Jennings started his professional career with CJOH TV during its early years, where he anchored local newscasts and hosted a teen dance show, “Saturday Date.”

CTV’s own report on the fire along with some videos is HERE.

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CTV Ottawa

Posted by firegeezer on February 7, 2010 • Filed under: Fires, fire • Tagged: , , ,

What a Pal!

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 FOUR APARTMENTS WERE COMPLETELY DESTROYED IN GRAPEVINE, TEXAS, Friday night when a 4-alarm fire ripped through the center of a building with a common attic.  A 31-yr.-old man who was visiting a family in the complex decided that he would help bring some smouldering embers in a fireplace back to life by pouring some gasoline on them. 

It worked. The fire roared back to life and instantly involved the entire living room of the apartment, leaving scant time for the family to run for their lives.  Within moments the fire was roaring through the building and the first-in units escalated the response in order to get a quick start on containment because of the common loft.

A total of 75 firefighters from 8 departments fought the blaze.  KDFW-TV Ch. 4 has this video report:

Posted by firegeezer on December 13, 2009 • Filed under: Fires, Videos, fire • Tagged: , ,