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Updated: LODD in Illinois – 5 Others Injured

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Truck Slides Into Crash Scene

Update:  Victim's identity made public.  Entire community in mourning.  Scroll down.

A HUDSON, ILLINOIS, FIREFIGHTER WAS KILLED Tuesday night and five of his colleagues were injured when a trailer truck lost control and slid into a crash scene on Interstate 39 near Bloomington.

The Hudson FD and Illinois State Police were dispatched to a multi-vehicle accident on the Interstate at 9:45 pm.  About an hour later while they were working on the scene, a tractor-trailer auto hauler crashed into three emergency vehicles belonging to the FD and the State Police, injuring the firefighters.

All six were transported to the hospital where one of them, a 39-yr.-old FF was pronounced dead in the ER at 11:38 pm.  His name has not been released yet, but it was reported that he is also a career firefighter with the Bloomington FD.

The Bloomington Pantograph has the current STORY. 
Hudson Fire Department WEBSITE.

Update:
The deceased firefighter has been identified as Christopher R.  Brown, age 39.  In a statement from the McLean County Coroner he was killed by blunt force trauma as a result of the accident.  He leaves a wife and two sons.  FF Brown was a 12-year career firefighter in the Bloomington FD and had also been volunteer member of the Hudson FD for the past three years.

The Bloomington Pantagraph adds:

"Today we lost a member of our Hudson family," said Hudson Fire Chief Dan Hite. "We share in the sorrow felt by his loved ones, and we must not forget the valuable contributions he made to this community and the impact he has left on the Hudson Fire Department."

Hite said the department is "a close-knit family, and the loss of one of our own affects us all. A tragedy of this type is felt by each and every member, but together, we can make it through. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family."

Flags were at half-staff at area police and fire departments, and police officers are wearing mourning bands on their badges.

"We are deeply saddened by the painful loss of one of our own, and we will do our best to support his immediate family as well as his firefighter families in both Bloomington and Hudson," said Bloomington Fire Chief Mike Kimmerling.

Read the full article on the community's response to the tragedy HERE.

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Posted by on March 6, 2013 • Filed under: Fire Rescue Topics, health & safety, Line of Duty • Tagged: , ,

LODD – Illinois

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Accident at Structure Fire

A VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTER IN CLINTON COUNTY, Illinois, died Sunday night following a tragic accident at the scene of a working structure fire.  Timothy Jansen, 45, responded to the fire on the Santa Fe Fire Protection District engine shortly before 8 pm.  The call was dispatched as a grass fire but when the units arrived, it has spread to a weekend home – referred to as a "clubhouse" – and structural operations were begun.

KMOV-TV

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch is reporting this morning:

The Clinton County sheriff's office is investigating the death of a firefighter who was struck and killed Sunday night by a fire truck as the crew arrived at the scene of a house fire.  Timothy P. Jansen, 45. Jansen was a volunteer firefighter for the Santa Fe Volunteer Fire Protection District in Bartelso.

At about 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Jansen was on the first pumper truck to arrive at a burning residence, known as a clubhouse, in the 9600 block of River Road. Jansen was outside the truck when he was hit, said Jeff Kampwerth, fire chief of the Germantown fire protecting district. Jansen was taken to St. Joseph's Hospital in Breese, where he was pronounced dead in the emergency room.

His injuries were to the chest, abdomen and pelvic area, said Phillip Moss, the Clinton County coroner. "The truck ran over him," Moss said. "He had gotten off the truck and he slipped or something, and the driver was unaware of him and the truck was backing up."

KTVI-TV has filed this video report on the tragedy:

 

Bartelso is a small community of 600 located about 50 miles east of St. Louis.  FF Jansen was born and raised in the close-knit town where everybody knows each other.  He was the proprietor of a restaurant located across the street from the firehouse.

The Belleville News-Democrat has MORE.

Firegeezer will update whenever any additional information is released.

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Posted by on December 3, 2012 • Filed under: current events, Fire Rescue Topics, Line of Duty, Videos • Tagged: , ,

LODD – Japan …. Chemical Explosion Causes Worldwide Backup of Diapers

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Firefighter Killed in Blast

A FIREFIGHTER IN HIMEJI, JAPAN, was killed Saturday while
attacking a fire in a chemical factory.

Kyodo News Service

The fire was in the Nippon Shokubai Co. factory and fire crews were using hose streams on a burning tank of acrylic acid.  About 40 minutes into the operation a large explosion occurred that fatally burned the 28-yr.-old FF Nagahiro Yamamoto and injured at least 30 others including 18 firefighters, 2 police officers and 10 plant employees.  Japan Times tells us:

A male employee from the plant called the fire department at around 2:05 p.m. Saturday to alert authorities that an abnormal chemical reaction had sparked a fire, and that workers were going to try to extinguish the flames, the officials said.

Nippon Shokubai said the first explosion occurred at around 2:40 p.m. as fire fighters were spraying the acrylic acid tank with water, and another shortly afterward. The blasts also set ablaze one of the fire engines dispatched to the scene, according to the officials.

NBC News is reporting:

Nippon Shokubai is one of the world's biggest makers of acrylic acid, the main ingredient of a resin called SAP, which is used in (disposable) diapers. The plant produces about 20 percent of the world's SAP and 10 percent of global output of acrylic acid.

Kyodo News / AP

Operations at the plant are likely to be halted for a long time and other makers of SAP resins are operating on a full-production footing, leaving little room for back-up production, the Nikkei business daily said on Sunday.

On that same topic, The Telegraph adds:

Nippon Shokubai controls the largest share of the world market for super-absorbent polymers, which is used in the production of nappies, and has been expanding its international sales network to keep up with demand.

According to the company, demand is so high that its production facilities have been required to operate at full capacity and it has announced plans to set up production facilities overseas. The company was particularly keen to meet growing demand for disposable nappies in China.

The water-absorbing polymers soak up an infant's waste through hydrogen bonding with water molecules. Generally, nappies that utilise the technology are able to absorb 50 times their own weight of liquid. If the operation of the factory is suspended for a long time, it could affect production.

Before it was destroyed, the Himeji plant produced 320,000 tons of the super-absorbent polymer, according to the Sankei newspaper, about 20 per cent of the global share.

It took more than eight hours to put the fire out and there is yet no determination on what caused it.

NHK TV has some spectacular footage in this (English language) video report:

 

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Posted by on September 30, 2012 • Filed under: explosion, fire, Fires, Haz-mat, HazMat, Major Incidents, Mass Casualty Incident, Videos • Tagged: , ,