Two Bridgeport, CT, firefighters died, and three others were injured in a fire in a three-story wood frame residential building at 39-41 Elmwood Avenue.
Lieutenant Steven Velasquez and Firefighter Michel Baik were on the third-floor of the fire building, checking for hot spots and conducting a search for possible occupants, when they sounded their personal alarm safety systems to alert other crews that they were in trouble.
Built as a two-family house in 1909, a third-apartment had been added, a move that was done without a building permit.
Media Reports:
WTNH-TV: 2 CT firefighters perish, probe begins (25 JUL 10)
Connecticut Post: Bridgeport blaze leads to 2 firefighter deaths (26 JUL 10)
Connecticut Post: Did firefighters' oxygen tanks run out? (25 JUL 10)
Connecticut Post: Neighborhood in shock as news spreads of firefighter deaths (24 JUL 10)
Connecticut Post: House in fire lacked permits for apartment conversion (26 JUL 10)
WTNH-TV: Firefighter died of smoke inhalation (26 JUL 10)
Connecticut Post: The paper trail connected with firefighters' breathing equipment (27 JUL 10)
WTNH-TV: Bridgeport's illegal apartment problem (28 JUL 10)
WFSB-TV Slideshow: 2 Bridgeport firefighters killed in line of duty
Background Information:
Bridgeport Fire Department website
Facebook: Bridgeport Fire Department
Bridgeport Firefighters Local 834
Wikipedia: Bridgeport, Connecticut
Google Map: 39-41 Elmwood Avenue, Bridgeport, CT
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