GA Firefighters Badly Burned During Search

Six LaGrange firefighters were hurt—four of them suffering second- and third-degree burns in a flashover—while searching a home early Monday.
Sept. 4, 2018

Six LaGrange firefighters were injured—four of them suffering second- and third-degree burns in a flashover—while searching a burning home early Monday.

"We had one crew inside fighting fire, one crew in there doing a search, and within split second ... everything went south on them and had a flash over situation," Deputy Chief John Brant told WSB-TV.

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