On Tuesday, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) released a roll call video and guidelines (both below) for firefighters, EMS and police officers regarding the handling of powerful opiates like fentanyl, which are up to 50 times more potent than heroin. The news comes … [Read more...]
Limestone (Maine) Firefighters turned out Thursday afternoon, where a fire had broken out in a wooded area near propane tanks. Firefighter Scott Patten was on a hose line, working on trying to keep the fire under control when one of the tanks exploded, sending fire shooting … [Read more...]
HIGH CO LEVELS ALMOST KILLS SIX FIREFIGHTERS ON EMS RUN
On Jan. 17, 2017, the Grand Island (Neb.) Fire Department was dispatched to a possible overdose with a not conscious, not breathing patient. Response included a med unit, with two personnel, an engine company with three personnel and the shift commander; police also … [Read more...]
The Redland (Calif.) Fire Department had to dial back its attack on a weekend brush fire when firefighters came upon used syringes and other medical waste at an illegal dump site. No firefighter injuries were reported. Firefighters were able to bring the 13-acre fire under … [Read more...]
This applies to all Firefighters, Police Officers and EMS Responders ...this is related to emergency/EMS scene exposure. WHAT HAPPENED: An East Liverpool (Ohio) patrolman was nearly killed just a few days ago when his skin came in contact with fentanyl, a deadly narcotic … [Read more...]
As you will remember, on April 17, 2013, an ammonium nitrate explosion occurred at the West Fertilizer Company in West, Texas, 18 miles north of Waco, while Firefighters were operating the fire at the facility. Fifteen people were killed,12 were Firefighters and EMT's-more … [Read more...]
One of the earliest Firefighter Line of Duty deaths that I learned intimately about was in 1977, and it was the death of Garden City Park (Long Island, NY) Captain Richard Provost. It happened just a few miles away from where I was a Firefighter (Manhasset-Lakeville) at the time. … [Read more...]
Word from Florida this afternoon is that Key Largo Firefighter Leonardo Moreno is doing significantly better, has been extubated, no longer in an induced coma but is still in Jackson Memorial Hospital and is expected to be there for several days. The men Firefighter Moreno tried … [Read more...]
3 utility workers died today when they became trapped in a wastewater trench in the Florida Keys (Key Largo, Monroe County) after being overcome by hydrogen sulfide and methane fumes. The workers had gone underground to look into a dip in a newly paved Key Largo road. When it … [Read more...]
Extinguishers were needed from fire departments across southern Maine after a container holding 60 pounds of lithium caught fire in Biddeford. It happened at a Soleras Advanced Coating building on Landry Street. Minimal damage was done to the the building itself, but the lithium … [Read more...]
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