Five Shawnee firefighters were transported to area hospitals after responding to a basement fire late Tuesday. Shawnee Fire Chief Rick Potter says firefighters were called to the home at 4610 Silverheel Street at 9:10 p.m. Arriving firefighters reported smoke visible from the front side of the house as they began an interior attack on the fire. “During the time that crews were fighting the fire, we had a partial collapse inside the building, and a mayday was called at 9:31,” Chief Potter told reporters at the scene. “We did have firefighters that were rescued from the building.” Source: Prairie Village Post

Shawnee Fire Chief Rick Potter says all five firefighters who were hospitalized after last night’s house fire in western Shawnee have been released from the hospital and are back at their homes. Firefighters from Shawnee and Lenexa initially responded to the house at 4610 Silverheel Street for a reported basement fire at 9:10 p.m. Potter says that at 9:31 a mayday was called following the collapse of a staircase leading into the basement. “We did activate our rapid intervention crew, who was able to then rescue the firefighters from the basement,” Potter said. Four firefighters had to be rescued through a [...]