Fires in balloon-frame construction present the engine company officer with various challenges. In addition to securing a water supply, stretching a line and extinguishing the main body of the ...

The first-due engine company arrived to smoke showing from the second floor of a two-and-a-half-story balloon-frame structure, and the crew stretched in a 1¾-inch handline to the second floor.

Tom: Then we're going to light this on fire to see how flames and smoke travel through a balloon-frame structure. Terrence: You can see, actually, the combustibles lighting up right now ...

Second and third-alarms were called as the fire grew rapidly. The balloon frame construction in this turn-of-the century home helped the fire spread easily throughout the structure. One ...

It's called "balloon frame" construction, and thousands of homes around the region have it. A fire that gutted a balloon frame home in Allentown on Sunday started small, with a family making ...