From wistv.com:
A Lancaster County volunteer fire chief collapsed at his fire station Tuesday morning and later died after he took part in fighting a house fire.
According to Lancaster County Fire Marshal Stephen Blackwelder, 54-year-old Dennis J. Cauthen was the Fire Chief with the Elgin Volunteer Fire Department with more than 31-years of fire service in Lancaster County.
The volunteer fire department had just returned from fighting a fire in an old mill house at 937 15th Street in the Gooches area. Blackwelder says the fire sparked around 2:45 a.m. Tuesday morning and crews were on scene for nearly three hours.
Blackwelder says that Chief Cauthen began feeling sick when the crews got back to the station and collapsed. His fellow firefighters called for paramedics and began to give him medical attention.
He was rushed to Springs Memorial Hospital where he died around 8 a.m.
Fire crews on scene told WBTV that the heat was so intense, firefighters had to move their trucks further away from the house fire to prevent the trucks from catching fire.
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From
TheSunNews.com:
A Murrells Inlet-Garden City firefighter remains in critical condition today at MUSC after being injured in a fire Saturday, said Capt. Scott Gosnell.
The firefighter has not been identified. He was taken to Georgetown Memorial Hospital on Saturday evening, suffering heat exhaustion while crews extinguished a fire at Cambridge Apartments near the Garden City Connector, and transferred to MUSC.
Two firefighters suffered from heat exhaustion as they worked to contain a second-floor apartment fire that broke out around 3:30 p.m., Assistant Chief Danny Lussier said Saturday. It took an hour to get the blaze under control.
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Via the
The (Charleston) Post and Courier:
As the four-year anniversary of the Sofa Super Store disaster approaches, the city is working to turn the site into a more fitting memorial for the nine Charleston firefighters who died there.
Long-term plans for a permanent memorial and Fire Department building where the Sofa Super Store once stood are unfunded and years away, but in the meantime Charleston will create a grass-covered, landscaped site with unique memorial markers for the nine, replacing what is now a parking lot and field where nine simple markers hold small flags.
The $45,000 cost for improving the memorial site will be a mix of city money and donated funds. Site work began this week.
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