A Firefighter's Nightmare – The Charleston Sofa Super Store Fire 2007

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1. I went to the high school where one of the Charleston 9, Louis Mulkie, coached football. It was summer before my senior year when this happened- I still remember watching the news in absolutely horror. Such a sad day for the Holy City 😣

2. Sounds like more male privilege.

3. I happened to be in Charleston on business a week or so after this happened. You can't truly grasp the magnitude of the destruction until you see it up close. Such a tragedy.

4. Not only in construction but the wide open areas it's hard to shut down and Backdraft when it started I was a firefighter for a while and yeah tighten it group and when one Falls it's hard let alone nine

5. So they died trying to save…a building? If there are no people inside, fight that shit from outside. There is no reason to go inside

6. My condolences to 9 firefighter that lost there life's that day.🥺🔥🚒

7. It's very hard to imagine the scale and intensity of the fire. Those firefighters couldn't have known just how bad the situation was when they went into the structure. That's real bravery. I'm glad the company had to pay civil damages. There is no excuse for them to illegally modify the building.

8. This store inside is Sofa King hot!

9. I live here in the Charleston area and will never forget that day. There were so many failures that lead to this event, but pointing fingers in the aftermath never does any good. Solid changes were made in the following years, so it's unlikely this will ever happen again. At least, not locally.

10. Wonder how the fire started

11. My goodness, this is heartbreaking……………………..

12. This reality gets me so scared. My twin is a volunteer (if athletes can be paid millions, fire fighters should be paid, too). And I'm scared that one day he will not return home. This building being out of code is not too unheard of. I figured that the town would never take responsibility. Im glad the sofa store paid the families of the victims.

13. That photograph of the chief sat alone.. 🥺 🚒 sad it wasn’t his fault

14. Check out Shawn Ryan Show. A firefighter from this fire told the story. Travis Howz might be his name

15. Seems like a job of containment would have been a better option. But then hindsight is always 20/20.

16. My father's cousin was a firefighter with Charleston Fire Department at the time this fire happened, he wasn't involved in the fire itself, hurt on the job and out on recovery, but he knew most if not all of the firefighters who lost their lives that fateful day. He also worked part time at the Sofa Super Store when this happened as well. He doesn't talk much about it.

    Much respect to the nine firefighters who made the ultimate sacrifice on June 18th 2007.

17. Salute to every firefighter and emergency responder that risks their life to save others. You are true heroes and I have the greatest amount of respect for you. I hope I can be in your honorable boots one day.

18. Rest easy brothers. We will take it from here.

19. Damn smokers🚬🚬🚬

20. Episode 6 of the Shawn Ryan Show is an interview with a firefighter that was there. Very heavy but such a great episode

21. I lived on James Island (about 5 miles away) at the time. You could see the flames over the treetops from my back yard. My buddy lived about 300 yards behind the fire. I thought his house was on fire so I called to check. He told me what was happening so I jumped on the Harley and took off to his house. When I turned onto his road I couldn't believe the heat coming off the fire. His road is on the other side of the BP station you see @ 3:54. This happened in West Ashley on Hwy 17 outside of the downtown area.

22. This is so so sad. I hope the families find some semblance of peace and I also hope that the former chief is okay too…That's a lot of responsibility to shoulder and if he feels like those deaths are on his hands, I cannot imagine how he feels…

23. Let it burn its all lost anyway .

24. My brother's apartment complex was right behind there and we had to evacuate. This really shook charleston. They had a very long funeral precession for the firefighters, I remember all traffic stopped to give support to the fire engines passing through. All of the charleston tricounty area felt this. It made headlines nationwide. And I see so many channels cover disasters and tragedies but I've not seen this one. Thank you.

25. Highest respect for firefighters, you are appreciated. 👍

26. they should not be allowed to enter that building in the first place

27. My brother was a fire fighter in the uk back in the 1990s. The feeling was that USA firefighters were too gung ho and took unnecessary risks with their own lives resulting in far higher casualties than firefighters in the Uk.

28. So the only casualties were firefighters? Employees in any job need a meeting space to get a headcount after fires. If everyone is accounted for then fight the fire from outside. That's assuming it's a business without customer traffic.

29. I remember this happening.. It was a real tragedy…

30. I once burned a sofa in a bonfire. It took less than 5 seconds to burst entirely into flames, melting trashcans 20 feet away

    The hottest fire I have ever felt

31. Furniture is scarily flammable. Couches take minutes to entirely burn

32. The reason Tyrrell never had cellphone service before but did that day is a feature of our emergency response system where emergency calls get priority. Which gives them service when they may not otherwise have it

33. It’s not a job that I would like to do, so every fire fighter world wide, have a very dangerous and life changing job. Respect to every fire fighter especially the fire fighters who are taken away from us far to early in this world.

34. I know I'm not a firefighter, but why didn't they stop traffic on the highway as soon as they had to run the hoses across them, even just out of precaution?

35. I hope the Chief got therapy. That is a huge load of burden for a man to wake up to everyday. He may have made mistakes, but he was also dealing with an under equipped, under trained, under manned department which all falls back on the city financial planners and not him. He played the cards he was dealt. To the lost.

36. RIP to 9 heroes 😭😭😭

37. True hero’s !

38. this is just sad, sorry to hear about this. gives me so much respect for fighters, and things can happen in a second

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40. As someone who lived in Charleston since 2001 this was real sad. I was visiting family in North Carolina when it popped on the news that day and was shocked when I heard about it. There is a memorial to the firefighters that lost their lives there and they're a firehouse beside it currently.

41. It sure wasn't a super day for them.

42. How tragic. It’s sad that it takes an incident of that magnitude to promote change. I’m sure the departments budget skyrocketed.

43. That's gutting poor guys

44. I work for this department now, I've been on since 2019. My captain was one of the guys at the fire and carried a few of them out during the recovery. We have only a few guys left on the department who were there for it and they make sure to pay it forward and make sure this never happens again

45. Such a devastating loss for the lived ones, the community and the nation.

46. I’m glad I’m not the only one who cried. God rest the Charleston 9.

47. I was at home in Downtown Charleston when this happened. Now I live closer to this location. Even though it has changed locations many times all i can remember is all those firefighters died. Such a tragic loss.

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