SJRFD In Action 2007

As part of Doors Open St. John's, Central Fire Station was among many sites in the city welcoming visitors on Saturday. From left, Brittany Johnson,4, Nicole Johnson,6, and Brandon Johnson,7, are shown self contained breathing aparatus equipment by firefighters Bob Hiscock , Scott O'Brien and Chris O'Reilly(standing).- Photo by Rhonda Hayward/The Telegram 1 width:500px;height:333px A firefighter exits the smoked filled Canadian Linen and Uniform Service building on Glencoe Drive in the Donovan's Industrial park Monday night. A small fire in a storage room caused some smoke and water damage. There was nobody in the building at the time. The RNC is investigating the cause of the fire.- Photo by Gary Hebbard/The Telegram 2 width:500px;height:333px Firefighters from three stations were called to the old Woolworth's building on Water Street Saturday afternoon where they were met with heavy smoke. A fire in a garbage chute was put out after about 2 hours. The building has been vacant for several years.
- Photo by Gary Hebbard/The Telegram 3 width:500px;height:331px St. John's Regional Fire Department (SJRFD) firefighter Jamie Letto from Kent's Pond Fire Station, drains his 1&/2" attack line fire hose outside the Brass Rack adjacent to Mighty White's Laundromat pool hall late Thursday night. A firefighter at the scene Thursday night said they could see smoke and fire coming from the dwellings when they pulled onto Duckworth Street moments after receiving the 911 call around 9:30 p.m. discovering the exterior patio deck of the laundromat on fire and immediately call for back-up. Supt. Jerry Peach told The Telegram that the blaze was contained to the patio of Mighty Whites, with minimal damage to the back wall of The Brass Rack and some minor damage inside. - Photo by Joe Gibbons/The Telegram 4 width:500px;height:331px Nineteen firefighters and equipment from three St. John's Regional Fire Department fire stations put in a valiant effort Monday night combating a row house fire on Field Street in the centre of the capital city. Here, a firefighter uses his axe to ventilate the roof as the fire was beginning to breaking through the roof of the two heavily damaged homes. - Photo by Joe Gibbons/The Telegram 5 width:500px;height:331px

Nineteen firefighters and equipment from three St. John's Regional Fire Department fire stations put in a valiant effort Monday night combating a row house fire on Field Street. Here, firefighters look on as water is sprayed on the Field Street fire Monday evening from the turret gun of the Central Quint fire truck. - Photo by Joe Gibbons/The Telegram 6 width:285px;height:430px As fire starts to come up around him, a St. John's Regional Fire Department (SJRFD) firefighter ventilates the top roof of a vacant home on the Main Road in the Goulds Friday night. The home was completely destroyed in the blaze which is being treated as suspicious as there were reports of teenagers seen running from the home prior to the report of the fire. - Photo by Joe Gibbons/The Telegram 7 width:500px;height:331px St. John's Regional Fire Department (SJFRD) firefighter Gary Goobie from the Brookfield Fire Station, dons his breathing apparatus before entering a burning residence on LeDrew Place in Mount Pear, Tuesday afternoon. Upon arrival, firefighters from the Brookfield and Mount Pearl fire stations were met with heavy smoke billowing from the home and dense smoke and flames at the rear of the home. The home received considerable fire, smoke and water damage. Both homeowners escaped the blaze unharmed. - Photo by Joe Gibbons/The Telegram 8 width:285px;height:430px St. John's regional firefighter Bobby Connolly (right) and firefighting student Jody Wood of the central fire station's pumper unit crew work at extinguishing a dumpster fire at Booth Memorial high school on Freshwater Road Monday night. Firefighters also put out a garbage fire outside the Buckmasters Circle recreation centre Monday evening. - Photo by Joe Gibbons/The Telegram 9 width:500px;height:331px St. John's Regional Fire Department firefighter Corey Reid removes his breathing mask while covered in firefighting foam. He was fighting a house fire on Skanes Avenue in Kilbride Wednesday. there were two people at home at the time and both escaped uninjured. - Photo by Keith Gosse/The Telegram 10 width:285px;height:430px

Wearing a hazardous materials safety suit, St. John's Regional Fire Department (SJRFD) firefighter and Hazardous Materials (HazMat) team member Steve Erbland enters the School of Medicine at the Health Sciences Centre (HSC) this morning as he and three other HazMat team members proceeded to a lab in the school to retrieve the contents of a chemical spill. Staff and students were evacuated from the building as a precautionary measure and a paramedic ambulance crew from Eastern Health was there on standby. - Photo by Joe Gibbons/The Telegram 11 width:285px;height:430px St. John's Regional Fire Department Supt. Don Byrne, left, and firefighter Stan Lawlor, right, of the Kent's Pond Fire Station, help lift Jerome Meadus from a sinkhole ditch at the rear of a home on Hall's Road Tuesday afternoon. He was helping his brother-in-law dig footings for a garage being constructed on the property when the ground gave away trapping him in the quick-sand like muddy ground. The SJRFD called in a City of St. John's backhoe to help clear away some of the ground and use a firefighter's rescue rope to lift the man from the ground after securing the area with wood and shovelling away some of the earth. - Photo by Joe Gibbons/The Telegram 12 width:285px;height:430px A firefighter at lower left pours water under the porch of number 10 Polina Road Sunday afternoon while two colleagues ventilate the roof to uncover any hidden fire. Residents of the home escaped uninjured and the damage was confined to the porch area. - Photo by Gary Hebbard/The Telegram 13 width:285px;height:430px The driver and sole occupant of a mid size car is removed from his overturned vehicle Friday on Bay Bulls Road. Police believe the driver was trying to avoid an unknown hazard and swerved into the ditch, causing the car to flip. The driver was conscious and alert when put in the ambulance for transport to hospital. - Photo by Gary Hebbard/The Telegram 14 width:500px;height:331px One person was transported to hospital and a second was being assessed at the scene of this 4 car pileup on Columbus Drive near the Village Mall Tuesday evening. None of the injuries were believed to be life threatening. - Photo by Gary Hebbard/The Telegram 15 width:500px;height:331px