Fire Victim Shares Experience With Dispatchers

The victim of a 2006 fatal apartment building fire in Ohio is offering to share his experiences with the nation’s dispatchers to help them understand the aftermath of such a tragic event. Donald Noss and his wife Linda survived the nighttime fire when they heard an officer from outside their third-floor apartment, and were rescued by ladder. They heard no building fire alarm, and saw 50-foot flames devouring the building around them. The fire consumed a square block and one resident died. Noss wrote a book about the fire and his experiences, including the fire investigation and transcripts of fire department radio broadcasts. He offers to e-mail any dispatcher a free Acrobat (pdf) copy of the book for information and training. Surf the Web site he created to document his experiences, and then send him an e-mail to receive a downloadable copy of the book.