- Author
- Duval, R.
- Title
- Residential Fire, Keokuk, Iowa, December 22, 1999. NFPA Fire Investigation Report.
- Coporate
- National Fire Protection Association, Quincy, MA
- Report
- NFPA Fire Investigations Report, 2000, 50 p.
- Distribution
- AVAILABLE FROM: National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), 1 Batterymarch Park, Quincy, MA 02269-9101. Telephone: 617-770-3000; Fax: 617-770-0700. Website: http://www.nfpa.org
- Keywords
- residential buildings | multifamily housing | death | children | adults | fire fighters | fire spread | smoke | high temperature gases | rescue | fire investigations
- Abstract
- At approximately 8:24 a.m. on Wednesday, December 22,1999, a fire was reported in a multifamily dwelling in Keokuk, Iowa. Several neighbors phoned the Keokuk 911 center to report smoke coming from a residence, and that a woman was outside screaming that there were children trapped inside. At the time the fire was reported, the on-duty force from the Keokuk Fire Department (an assistant chief, a lieutenant, and three fire fighters) was completing operations at a motor vehicle accident at a major intersection, two miles northwest of the fire scene. The dispatcher notified the units of the fire and the report of people trapped. Both units at the accident (Rescue 3 and Aerial 2) responded from the scene of the motor vehicle accident. During the response, additional calls were made to the 911 Center reporting heavy smoke coming from the house. One member of the on-duty force of five fire fighters was committed in assisting the EMS Crew on the ambulance and was en route to the Reokuk hospital at the time of the report of the house fire. The chief of the department became aware of the incident as he entered his office at the fire station. The chief responded from the fire station and went to the hospital to pick up the fire fighter that was with the ambulance crew.