By Jeff Pikulsky, VALLEY INDEPENDENTThursday, January 13, 2005 SCOTTDALE - A former Rostraver Township firefighter accused of crashing a fire truck while driving drunk on the way to a fire call was ordered Wednesday to stand trial. John Michael Kimball, 36, of 513 Lebanon School … [Read more...]
FDNY TEAMS LACKING BEST EQUIPMENT
By STEVE DUNLEAVY 1-25-05 IN THE fog of tragedy, there is no way in hell to know if anyone or anything could have averted Black Sunday. But I do know one thing: if I was a firefighter going into an inferno high above the ground, I'd like to be equipped with a harness and personal … [Read more...]
FIREFIGHTER HURT BY FALL THROUGH ROTTEN FLOOR IN ABANDONED BUILDING
By: CLIFF DAVIS, Staff WriterPETERSBURG - A Petersburg firefighter was hurt Wednesday when he fell nearly 20 feet through a rotten floor and landed on concrete below. Sgt. Terry Traylor, 48, a 28 year veteran of the department currently assigned to the Farmer Street station, was … [Read more...]
FIRE TRAINING SURVEY REPORT
Below, in MS Word format is a copy of a 50 State Training Survey Special Report. This report shows the dilemma the fire service faces when it comes to BASIC Fire Training and was sent to us by Randy Brown, Lieutenant, Angola Fire Department, Indiana-Special Training Task Force. … [Read more...]
MASS. DEPUTY CHIEF DIES OF HEART ATTACK ON DUTY
We have been advised that Chelsea (Mass) Deputy Fire Chief Joe VanHandorf Jr had a heart attack while on Duty. Joe taught fire science at Bunker Hill and was highly respected by the area fire service. The wake is Thursday & Friday, with the funeral scheduled for Saturday morning. … [Read more...]
12 FDNY FIREFIGHTERS INJURED IN BROOKLYN 1-27-05
Twelve firefighters were injured, five seriously, when a wall fell on them last night while they battled a fire in a house in the Homecrest section of Brooklyn, officials said. None of the injuries appeared life-threatening, an FDNY spokesman said. The blaze, at a house under … [Read more...]
BROOKE GARNERCourtesy of The Prince George's County GazetteA fire on the first floor of a District Heights residence the afternoon of June 29 left four people injured. The fire started around 1 p.m. It spread to the second floor and fire officials learned that several residents … [Read more...]
FIREMAN HURT IN LEAP MAY SUE
NY Daily News-March 1, 2005-A firefighter injured in the Bronx blaze that killed two of his fellow Bravest in January plans to sue the city for unspecified damages, his lawyer said yesterday. Attorney Michael Block said the city's failure to provide safety ropes for his client, … [Read more...]
KY FIREFIGHTER INJURED WHEN CHIMNEY FALLS ON HIM
A Clark County firefighter was injured fighting a house fire Wednesday morning when parts of the chimney of the house fell on him. The fire happened at a house on Route 15, which is also known as Ironworks Round. LEX 18 photojournalist Devon Ramage was videotaping the scene when … [Read more...]
DC FIREFIGHTER FALLS IN ELEVATOR SHAFT
A Washington DC Fire Sgt was critically injured, a toddler was killed and about 20 other people were also injured yesterday in a fire that forced hundreds of people out of an up-scale high-rise apartment building in far Southeast Washington. The cause of the fire at the Marbury … [Read more...]