Feds: Poor Communication Before Firefighter Deaths

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CHICAGO - A federal agency has found that poor communications and too few radios contributed to the deaths of two Chicago firefighters killed last year when an abandoned building collapsed.

The Chicago Tribune reported Friday that the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health concluded in a report that only five of the 13 firefighters in the building when the roof collapsed had radios and none of those inside described to supervisors outside what they were seeing - meaning that the supervisors had no clue the firefighters inside could see flames climbing wooden beams to the ceiling.

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Feds: Poor Communication Before Firefighter Deaths

Further, the report concluded that there was no system to alert the fire department to hazardous ...

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