An arrest has been made following a hit-and-run that critically injured a 25-year-old Onset firefighter who was responding to an emergency call during Friday’s nor’easter. Paul J. Durgin, 28, of Sandwich, was arrested at the Knights Inn motel in Barnstable. Wareham Police … [Read more...]
Last week, a West Sebring VFD (Highlands County, central Florida) brush trucks was involved in an accident while en route back home from assisting Hardee County. The personnel were treated for their injuries and will make a full recovery-the most serious being fractures. Please … [Read more...]
On a June day in 2017, Anchorage (Alaska) Firefighter Ben Schultz took a horrific fall from a 100- foot-tall ladder. While the Anchorage Fire Department deemed its investigation of the situation inconclusive - stating they couldn't determine a specific cause of Schultz's fall, … [Read more...]
In 2012 I was washing down my Oshkosh Striker USAF P-23 ARFF truck after completing a morning operational check. These checks required us to drive the truck on about an eight to ten minute route on the flight line. The operational check includes testing the operations of the pump … [Read more...]
It was a close call for Austin Fire Station 20’s firefighters on Saturday, Feb.10, when the crew responded to an early morning call in the 2200 block of E. Stassney Lane in southeast Austin, near Interstate 35. A driver in a Jeep Cherokee ran into the back of the fire truck … [Read more...]
An EMT died in the Line of Duty when the ambulance he was in the back of rolled over near Las Vegas Boulevard and the 215 Beltway. Nevada Highway Patrol says the EMT in his 50s and patient in his 60s were killed. The EMT driving the ambulance was hospitalized with non-life … [Read more...]
A baby boy that was injured in a crash involving an ambulance in Winston-Salem has died. 27-year-old Jose Duran Romero crashed a Honda Accord into the side of a Mercedes Lifecare Ambulance on southbound U.S. 52 around 0115 hours Sunday. The ambulance rolled over on its side and … [Read more...]
A Merced County firefighter suffered minor injuries in a rollover accident in a Cal Fire engine just outside Merced city limits, according to the California Highway Patrol. A firefighter was driving the engine alone southbound on McKee Road north of East Santa Fe Avenue towards … [Read more...]
RIG STRUCK ON I-25
Tonight, while on the scene of an earlier accident, Wellington Fire Engine 1 was struck from behind by a vehicle going northbound on I-25. All firefighters are safe and were uninjured in the crash. Unfortunately, the driver of the vehicle did not survive their injuries. Roads … [Read more...]
Horrible news out of Scottsdale (Arizona) where a visit to a fire station resulted in the death of a young child. Initial reports are that a boy less than 2 years old died after being injured by an apparatus bay door during a tour of a Scottsdale Fire Station. The child was a … [Read more...]
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