Thursday, May 5, 2011

OH Firefighters Injured in Stairwell Collapse

From The Columbus Dispatch:
Two firefighters were injured when portions of a stairwell collapsed while they were battling a fire inside an East Side town home yesterday evening.

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Columbus and Whitehall firefighters responded at 6 p.m. to the report of a fire at 3482 Cunard Square, in the Cushing Arms Townhomes.

According to Columbus Fire Division Battalion Chief Michael Fowler, a group of Whitehall firefighters went up the stairs, and one Whitehall lieutenant fell through a hole in the stairway.

Shortly after, the Columbus firefighter coming up the same staircase was more seriously injured when the staircase collapsed into the town house's basement.

Read it all HERE.

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