North Charleston officials released the 911 calls that came in last Friday morning during the Noisette Apartment fire.
On Feb. 10, a mother and her two children were injured in an apartment fire in North Charleston.
Neighbors helped make a dramatic rescue by catching one of the children tossed out of the window of the burning apartment.
The first call came in after the two children and their mother were out of the burning apartment, but stress the urgency of getting medical crews to the scene to help the victims. Five minutes after the initial call, several units were on scene. The fire was under control 20 minutes after the 911 calls.
Greg Bulanow said his emergency crews put out the fire within the standard protocol time; however, two fire insiders are frustrated with some of the city's operations.
"There was the potential of being a fatal fire," said a former North Charleston firefighter who wished to remain anonymous.
Several engines attended a required EMT training Friday morning. Twelve firefighters listened to medical instructors instead of taking a fire call in close proximity.
A current North Charleston firefighter believes that is a waste of taxpayer money.
"A million dollars taxpayers that they pay for these trucks and they sit them in a parking lot and take the manpower off them trucks?" he said. "That's playing with fire. we could do training right here at the city of North Charleston. We could of did it at city hall. These instructors come to you."
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