What the Boyd Street Firefighter Mass Casualty Survival Story Teaches Us

327 E. Boyd Street, Los Angeles, CA: “We Could Have Buried 19 People That Day”

Experience the Boyd Street Firefighter Mass Casualty Incident

On a warm spring evening, multiple 911 callers reported light smoke drifting out of the closed roll-up steel door of a one-story commercial building in the “Skid Row” area of downtown Los Angeles where dozens of packed wholesale storefronts crowded together. LAFD Station 9 arrived quickly, forced entry, vented the roof, and searched inside for the fire. Eight minutes after firefighters arrived and seconds after a strange yellow smoke pushed out of the roof vents, an enormous fireball blow-torched out of the unit, engulfing the evacuating roof crew and the interior crews. What LAFD learned from this firefighter mass casualty event will help your tactical and operations officers protect their crews and more effectively handle similar incidents and inform the commercial fires training you deliver to your personnel. Click “Experience the Boyd Street Firefighter Mass Casualty Incident” to learn from this firefighter mass casualty event.


Experience the Boyd Street Firefighter Mass Casualty Incident