Largest Incident.

[Chia6004]

Just curious as to what everyones largest incident has ever been. Mine was the Paradise Fire last Oct. 50k Acres, assigned to it for 8 days.

[axeboy6]

Amtrak train crash outside Baltimore in January of '86. Hundreds of patients, hundreds of responders.

[Little Leather]

The mulch fire back a few years ago in Baltimore county, and this recent event with 92 car pile up.

[WhatNow]

7 alarm church fire in 1993 and a 5 alarm warehouse that summer. Or two fatal fires in the same week (1994), one that included the rescue of a trapped adult in cardiac arrest who was revived and recovered 100%. One that I will never forget is one that happened while at an FD softball tournament in Dearborn Heights MI. 5 of us left the ball field following a plume of smoke and arrived on the scene of a huge warehouse about 50% involved just as the first engine was arriving. Pretty cool to watch but they were so understaffed they let us play. Pretty cool when you go to a softball tournament 500 miles away from home and end up fighting fire.

[DrGreenbaumberg]

A couple plane crashes a few years ago.

[EMT/FF99]

Petro Mark Oil Refinery Fire in McKees Rocks Pa, March 1983

[engine4]

Not necessarily the biggest fire I've been on, but certainly the biggest one we never even put a drop of water on. The old St. Mary’s College in Illchester, Maryland, back in 1997, 1 day after Halloween. A 4 1/2 story building about 250 ft by 75 ft, over 100 years old. We pulled up to find fire from every window, plus the cupola, very impressive. The problem was it was atop a steep hill with 1 dirt road as access. This of course was in the collapse zone, so no personnel & no water allowed near it. Here's some pics.......note the statue still standing in the center on the 4th floor after the fire.......

[10-75 K]

I use to go to that place all the time when i was in high school. there are actually 3 roads to get into the place but 2 are blocked off with dirt and gates. we use to go up there and get drunk and high. the stories were that it was an abandoned girls college and that the janitor murdered and raped all the girls then the place was shut down. it was a great story to tell the girls when they were drunk so you could try and get a sympathy f**k. also around that area is a place called seven-hills, the scene of many bad crashes involving high school kids speeding and tryin to jump the hills. there was a big fire right down the street from there in the paper recycling plant a year or 2 ago also which i think went to 3 or 4 alarms.

[engine4]

I use to go to that place all the time when i was in high school. there was a big fire right down the street from there in the paper recycling plant a year or 2 ago also which i think went to 3 or 4 alarms.

Yep, Simkins Industries. We usually had a fire there every year & unfortunately they kept reopening. Until the last one you're referring to finally finished them off. What a place, an old mill type building with huge paper rolling machines, a basement only midgets would fit into, huge bales of paper on the upper floors, & big open vats with knives in the bottom where they would grind the recycled paper into pulp.

[Snowman]

Is Illchester between Catonsville and Ellicott City? You know I'm directionally challenged about the SW area. :)

[engine4]

Is Illchester between Catonsville and Ellicott City? You know I'm directionally challenged about the SW area. :)
Sort of, it's just across the river from Simpkins.......& I thought you were just challenged. :D

[38-3]

Been on 3 brush fires in the area the last few years that burnt a couple hundered acres each of our steep mountain side.
Not the biggest, but the probably the scariest at the time, we had a bomb threat at the high school in our first due on Sept. 11 2001 around noon. Really made you wonder at the time.

[Snowman]

I've been challenged in many way for a llloooooooonnnngggg time.

[Flashover21]

Largest I ever been to was the Prince Georges County courthouse fire.....

[emtrichie]

well i got a couple that i can remember not sure of the years but all in the west mifflin pa area 1) Bettis Lounge it was freezing outside and we had a path of ice from the fire all the way down the road so many hazards icy hot fire and icy ladders i was on our squirt and was never scared to be on a ladder except that day (2) Building in Homestead that had a bank a bowling alley and several businesses in it on 8th ave (3) many many house fires in duquesne homestead and west mifflin (4)Good Old Woodland Flea Market when a whole row of storage units were burning (5) just recently the Duquesne Fire but i was on the ambulance for that so i missed all the fun.well their are more but i am done don't wanna bore you all

[allpro]

I wouldn't use a brush fire as a large incident. Now maybe it impressed you, but thats reaching.