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6 members of firefighting crew burned in training accident near Castaic

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CASTAIC – Six members of a firefighting crew were burned Tuesday, one critically, in a training accident in a remote area of Los Angeles County north of Castaic.

Paramedics were sent to Golden State Highway at Templin Highway around 11:15 a.m. Tuesday, June 7, and they took all six victims for hospital treatment, according to the Los Angeles County Fire Department.

One was in critical condition and five suffered minor injuries, the fire department reported.

The injured people were members of a California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation firefighting “hand crew,” according to the LACFD.

Officer Josh Greengard of the California Highway Patrol told KTLA5 that the crew was engaged in a training exercise.

Further details about the accident were not immediately available.

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15 comments for "6 members of firefighting crew burned in training accident near Castaic"

  1. I commend these folks for their services and I wish them the best on their recovery.

    But below you will find our resident gascon loving leftist praising those fighting fires ONLY when they are incarcerated criminals.

    NEVER would this man or whatever he identifies as give praise to everyday occupational firemen who put their lives on the line.
    Todays Democratic Party favors the criminals over your day to day honest working person.

    Pathetic!

    • I actually have great respect for almost all firefighters.

      I don’t agree with their union driving through the conflicting objectives of “we need this minimum staffing on every shift to be safe” and “we don’t want to expand overall personnel too much so we can maintain training levels,” which are designed to produce circumstances where tremendous amounts of overtime pay get generated, but that’s a question of mismanagement, not firefighting.

      I also don’t like the cliques that have become a part of pretty much all “public service” professions in LA County. They are gangs, period, and due ro being on positions of responsibility they are more dangerous than the run of the mill gangs on the streets. But I think the old saw about ‘bad apples’ is far more accurately applied to the fire department than to law enforcement, because a fireman that sees this gang activity in their station is not designated as responsible to do anything about it as is a cop that turns the blind eye to the crimes he is supposed to be stopping if those crimes involve his “brothers in blue.”

      Then there’s Mike, who would have done the world a favor if he had fallen out of the chopper on his first training flight, but he is hardly representative of firemen in general.

    • Ahh yes…there’s that “honor among thieves” they say no longer exists. Wishing your brethren well in their time of need. Such solidarity. Good job tiny Tim.

      • Hey Mike…surprised to see you. Usually when you go over the horizon with your tail between your legs it takes you longer to get back.

        • Tim thinks anyone who doesn’t spend every moment of their day in the comment section is running from him. You’re worse off than I thought Tim. But since you’re interested in what’s between my legs….

          • Not “anyone,” just you Mike. You show up with your “oh I’d call Tim names to his face just like I do here” noises…and when I remind you that I know who you are you run off. It’s a repeating cycle. Because you are a coward and we both know it.

          • Not “anyone.” Just you Mike. You’re the only one that talks huckleberries then proves to not have any.

    • “Good luck in your recovery folks.”

      This was the original post. Tim was attacked for saying what? Geez. That’s unfair, uncalled for and inappropriate for such a benign comment, don’t you think (unless you’re a hater)?

      • I have no respect for the criminals that become firefighters. There was a guy who robbed robbed a liquor store and came out and became a firefighter. He was chosen first out of a lot of people that were really trying and did it the right was because he has experience from jail. The guys brother that was with him when he robbed the store didn’t get caught and went to the military and became a cop. Most of us went to college and got stuck in debt.

        • Wah wah wah!

          The guy did his time. I suppose you would be happier if he just went back to robbing liquor stores.

          If you are stuck in debt that isn’t anyone’s fault but yours, go cry to someone who cares.