02/January/2015 – Structure Fire – “A” Shift
Incident # 15-00025 – A Ruffin family of seven, narrowly
escaped an early morning house fire at 90 Blaine Court Friday 02-Janaury. At
02:54, 9-1-1 received the first report of the fire. The adult female advised
one of the children in the home awakened her noting the house was on fire.
She immediately discovered smoke in the residence and found a fire in the
wall behind a television set in a small bedroom. She got everyone out of the
house, went across the street to a neighbor’s home and called 9-1-1. Engine
18 arrived minutes later to find the singlewide mobile home well involved.
Firefighter-Paramedics deployed multiple handlines to extinguish the fire.
They had the bulk of the flames knocked down within 15 minutes, but were on
the scene performing overhaul for a little over two and half hours. The home
was gutted and the family lost everything inside.
Fire-Rescue Medic 18 transported the woman and an 11 month
old female to Colleton Medical Center. Firefighter-Paramedics treated them
for smoke inhalation. The other four children and an adult male who was also
in the residence were not injured and did not require medical attention. The
home did not have smoke detectors. Fire investigators determined the fire
started in an electrical outlet in one of the bedrooms. It rapidly spread
through the singlewide mobile home from there. Water supply was provided
with a Tender Shuttle. The Charleston Chapter of the American Red Cross is
assisting the family.
Engine 18, Engine 26, Tender 4, Tender 13, Tender 18,
Tender 26, Tender 27, Medic 18, Medic 26, Battalion 1, Car 12 and Car 117
responded. Battalion Chief Dan Barb served as Incident Commander.
