CBS DFW
DALLAS — Behind the smoke...behind the fire...there was confusion, flawed communications and a sense that things were getting out of control.
That is the picture drawn by internal documents and an audiotape obtained exclusively by the CBS 11 I-Team, describing a 2013 apartment fire that killed Dallas firefighter Stan Wilson. Wilson, a 28-year-old veteran of Dallas Fire and Rescue, died May 20 when the burning building collapsed on him as he and fellow firefighters searched one last time for anyone still inside.
An I-Team investigation has found that the search came more than two hours after the fire had started, and that powerful aerial ladder pipes were, at the time, continuing to pound water onto the top of the building. Firefighting experts have told CBS 11 those “master streams” should have been turned off because of the risk of a collapse — a risk that became even greater because the fire had been going on for more than two hours when Wilson and the others went inside.
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