On Sept. 19, a firefighter was injured when a garage door came crashing down on top of them while doing some overhaul work inside the garage. As a result, the firefighter suffered some neck and back injuries.
The garage door was open and resting in the cradle position above the firefighters when the incident occurred.
With the relatively high number of garage fires departments respond to, the possibility of this incident repeating itself is very high. Do we think of the garage door when we are working inside a garage? Probably not. For the most part, we tend to forget about the garage door once it has been opened.