Overview
- The firefighter, a part-time academy staffer, fell about four stories from a burn building in Stow on Tuesday during prep for recruit training and suffered life-threatening injuries.
- Academy personnel, many of them EMTs and paramedics, gave immediate care, called 911, and the Stow and Sudbury fire departments responded.
- A medical helicopter was requested but snowy weather grounded flights, and a flight transport crew took the patient by ground to UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester.
- His name has not been released at his family's request, and Chelmsford Fire officials said their crews are at the hospital to support him and his loved ones.
- Burn buildings are concrete structures used for live-fire drills, and this incident could prompt reviews of safety procedures at training facilities as investigators work to determine the cause.