THE VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS HAD BEEN SENT TO NORTHERN BUTLER COUNTY FOR WATER RESCUES WHEN THEIR BOAT FLIPPED. ...It's amazing when things go wrong, your training kicks in." By MICHAEL MOLITORIS About two hours after Emlenton firefighters were dispatched to northern Butler County … [Read more...]
FIREFIGHTER TRIAL: TRAINER SAYS SAFETY WAS A PRIORITY – BUT IS DISPUTED.
Thursday, July 1, 2004By HECTOR CASTRO, SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTERThe battalion chief blamed by some for an accident that critically injured a Seattle fire recruit four years ago testified yesterday that she took pains to ensure the well-being of all the … [Read more...]
FIREFIGHTER ARRESTED FOR DRIVING FIRE TRUCK DRUNK
June 4, 2004CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa -- A Springville volunteer firefighter was charged with drinking while driving a fire truck. Brian Gehl, 37, was arrested by Linn County police on suspicion of driving with a blood alcohol level nearly two times the legal limit. In Iowa, the legal … [Read more...]
There were tense moments Monday afternoon for several Virginia Beach firefighters. Around 3:15pm, their fire truck sank into a ditch in the 1300 block of Pleasant Ridge Road - just off Princess Anne Road in the Muddy Creek section of the city. Four firefighters were hurt in the … [Read more...]
MASSACHUSETTS FIREFIGHTER IN FATAL FALL OFF APPARATUS LAST MONTH… STOOD UP IN TRUCK, PROBE FINDS… POLICE SAY HELMET WAS NOT FASTENED.
By Jared Stearns, Boston Globe CorrespondentMay 22, 2004Brookline firefighter Irwin "Buzz" Gross stood up in the rear of a firetruck leaving the station on April 30, and when it turned sharply he fell and suffered injuries that proved fatal, according to a police investigation of … [Read more...]
Wreck Nov. 5 Injured 2 Teenage Girls12-13-04-OLATHE, Kan. -- Johnson County District Attorney Paul Morrison charged two Grandview, Mo., police officers Monday with reckless driving. The charges against Officers Douglass Blodgett and Brian Blessing stem from a high-speed police … [Read more...]
RECRUITS IN DISPUTE ON MEMPHIS 'HELL NIGHT'
Courtesy of The Commercial Appeal October 22, 2004Some Memphis firefighter recruits say the "Hell Night" exercise they endured -- and that landed trainee James A. Coleman in a coma -- was a far cry from the one Fire Department officials described. Director Richard Arwood said … [Read more...]
MASSACHUSETTS LAWYER SAYS FAULTY FIRETRUCK DOOR TO BLAME… FOR FIREFIGHTER DEATH
BERNIE SMITHCourtesy of The Brookline Tab A lawyer retained by the family of fallen firefighter Irwin "Buzz" Gross said a faulty door handle on an antiquated fire truck with a history of opening unintentionally may be to blame for the April 30 accident, but Brookline's fire chief … [Read more...]
MASS. FIRE TRUCK COLLIDES WITH CAR
SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS (WWLP-7/30) - A fire truck and a car collided on the streets of Springfield. At 10am, 2-Springfield men were driving in the red Chevy when it flipped over on Oak and Union streets. The passenger, 24-year-old Raymond Clich, is still being treated at … [Read more...]
INTERSECTION? SLOW DOWN OR STOP
Here is another Close Call... this time between the POLICE and a CHIEF. ASSUME there IS another emergency vehicle coming through all intersections (not to mention civilians) and SLOW down or STOP... if it is a red light. While responding to a fire call for smoke coming from a … [Read more...]