April Incidents 2019

April will welcome 36 new recruit firefighters into the ranks of professional first responders in our city during the official graduation ceremony scheduled for Thursday, April 25th at the Wilson Center, FSCJ South Campus. Congratulations to all!
The month has unfortunately introduced our first fire fatality of the spring, more specifically a tragic death occurring on Monday, April 8th in the 1100 block of North Panuco Avenue. As crews arrived on scene in the wake of being dispatched to a residential structure fire just before 6 PM that early evening, heavy black smoke accompanied by flames could be seen wafting skyward from a window near the back of the single story, single family residence. Performing an aggressive interior attack, firefighters soon had the blaze under control but, alas, the body of an adult female was discovered in the immediate aftermath of those referenced suppression activities. The State Fire Marshal, as per standard protocol, was called to the scene to perform the investigative work into a possible cause.