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CLOSE CALL INVOLVING PUMP PRESSURE!!

 FireCompanies    December 25, 2004    No Comments

"Before I could figure out what was going on I heard the Lt. yelling firefighter down send me an ALS unit" !!!I reached to tighten the coupling and as I touched the wrench to it was struck by a massive hammer blow and a stream of water, and found myself laying in the middle of … [Read more...]

 APPARATUS/VEHICLE/HIGHWAY, News

TWO FIREFIGHTERS NEARLY DROWN-UNOCCUPIED CAR IN WATER

 FireCompanies    December 25, 2004    No Comments

SEPTEMBER 22, 2003 - A creek overflowed its banks Monday and covered a car in the first block of Frogtown Road. Two firefighters nearly drowned while trying to check the car, whichwas emptyA flash flood Monday swept two firefighters into swollen Pequea Creek as they were … [Read more...]

 News, RESCUE/EMS

KILLED FIRE CADET'S FAMILY SPEAKS OUT FOR CHANGES IN TRAINING

 FireCompanies    December 25, 2004    No Comments

Sun Sentinal July 25, 2004Just days before a firefighter recruit died during a training exercise, he told his sister he was concerned about how the instructors were treating his class. The recruits had to wear their bunker gear all day, she recalled him saying. The instructors … [Read more...]

 News, TRAINING/DRILLS

FIVE FEET MADE FATAL DIFFERENCE FOR FIREFIGHTER

 FireCompanies    December 25, 2004    No Comments

By Lisa LeffASSOCIATED PRESS 4:39 p.m. September 21, 2004 SAN FRANCISCO Eva Schicke made it within five feet of the road where two colleagues safely found shelter before she disappeared in the fire that had turned on her seven-member crew 30 seconds after the wind shifted … [Read more...]

 News, WILDLAND

FIREFIGHTER DRUNK, OPERATING APPARATUS, IS CHARGED

 FireCompanies    December 25, 2004    No Comments

(Lancaster, NY, July 7, 2004) - A volunteer firefighter in the Village of Lancaster is charged with DWI after crashing his fire truck on the way to a fire call. Police say 34 year old Christopher Long was drunk when he slammed head-on into a pickup truck that had pulled over to … [Read more...]

 APPARATUS/VEHICLE/HIGHWAY, News

FIRE TRUCK FLIPS RESPONDING IN JACKSONVILLE, FL

 FireCompanies    December 25, 2004    No Comments

POSTED: 12:16 pm EST March 23, 2004JACKSONVILLE, FL. -- A firefighter was hurt when the fire truck he was driving to a house fire on the Westside this morning overturned. Terrence Eaton, 38, was taken to Shands-Jacksonville Medical Center with bumps and bruises after the tanker … [Read more...]

 APPARATUS/VEHICLE/HIGHWAY, News

TWO FIREFIGHTERS INJURED IN CANADA-APPARATUS CRASH

 FireCompanies    December 25, 2004    No Comments

FREDERICTON, Canada - Two firefighters from the Nashwaak Valley FD were injured when their truck overturned while responding to a dwelling fire. The truck skidded into a ditch and rolled several times, scattering equipment and supplies across the road and into a ditch. Both … [Read more...]

 APPARATUS/VEHICLE/HIGHWAY, News

VICTIMS REMOVED? THEN THE RISK CHANGES!

 FireCompanies    December 25, 2004    No Comments

When people are trapped, in trouble or in distress-we often will go out of our way to help save someone who is savable. That's what we do. Once they are saved, or determined to be no longer savable-the RISK WE TAKE changes! Who decides that? Well-the IC ultimately, but WE ALL … [Read more...]

 News, RESCUE/EMS

TWO PARAMEDICS HURT IN AMBULANCE TRAINING MISHAP!

 FireCompanies    December 25, 2004    No Comments

Two paramedics were hurt when one of Collier County's (Florida) new ambulances overturned Thursday during a training exercise at the vehicle test track in Golden Gate Estates. The paramedics were taken to Lee Memorial Hospital after the 10:30 a.m. rollover. They were released … [Read more...]

 News, TRAINING/DRILLS

TUOLUMNE FIRE INITIAL REPORT "GREEN SHEET"

 FireCompanies    December 25, 2004    No Comments

As you know, CDF Firefighter Eva Schicke was tragically killed in the line of duty while fighting the Tuolumne Fire last month. Here is a LINK to the INFORMATIONAL GREEN SHEET regarding the fire-and the tragic loss of Firefighter Schicke. … [Read more...]

 News, WILDLAND

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