A Firefighter fighting the Detwiler fire in Mariposa County (California) was airlifted to a Fresno hospital after a fire truck crashed this morning. The fire apparatus reportedly rolled down an embankment and crashed into a field. The Firefighter was taken to Community Regional … [Read more...]
As would be expected of any Firefighter, I'm pretty upset at some of the recent fires where fire suppression systems, fire sprinklers and strong life safety codes would have made very predictable differences. We saw it in the UK and we saw it in Hawaii - just in the last few … [Read more...]
Nasty crash in Miami-Dade this morning left a civilian dead and MDFR Firefighters thankful for blocking procedures. Fire rescue crews had responded to a call of a separate hit and run crash on the Palmetto Expressway and had blocked off the road when a 2014 Hyundai Sonata hit … [Read more...]
It’s with great regret that we pass on that on July 19, (yesterday) a Firefighter was killed in the Line of Duty while fighting a forest fire on the Sealy Ranger District of the Lolo National Forest in Montana. The Firefighter, (from Grayback Forestry) 19 years old and a … [Read more...]
Three members of the Newtown Ambulance Squad (Bucks County, Pennsylvania near Philly) and a Newtown Firefighter were hospitalized July 10 after being exposed to a extremely potent variety of heroin while responding to a call for a cardiac arrest on the Newtown Bypass, according … [Read more...]
PulsePoint? Yep-it may be the coolest app since "FindMyKeys" and "WheresMyMotherInLaw"---- but PulsePoint (a non-profit) has proven to save lives-working with Firefighter's and EMS. Please take 3 minutes to read about this truly amazing innovation for fire and EMS … [Read more...]
State workplace regulators said Monday they have launched an investigation into the death of an inmate firefighter in San Diego County this month, the second fatality involving a prison firefighter in California this year. In fact, the only state firefighters to be killed in … [Read more...]
KUDOS to Deputy Chief Josh Hurguy, (of the Golder Ranch, AZ FD) who is currently at the NFA attending his 2nd year of EFO (last week). Josh is apparently a huge baseball fan so on Saturday (July 15) Josh and a classmate went in to Baltimore to catch an Orioles/Cubs ball … [Read more...]
A Coweta County (GA, near Atlanta) Fire Lieutenant remains in ICU in stable condition after he was trapped beneath a tree. It happened on Sunday morning when Lieutenant Adam Moss, a nine-year vet of the Coweta County Fire Rescue Department, was attempting to remove a tree from … [Read more...]
A Massachusetts man cleaning out his parents' garage on Saturday made an explosive discovery -- a live military practice bomb. Whitman firefighters called in the Massachusetts State Police Bomb Squad midday on Saturday to safely detonate a bomb that one local family thought was a … [Read more...]
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