12-9-05-A Monterey County Calif) ambulance driver hurt during a multi-car accident Thursday on Highway 1 near Fort Ord remained Friday in a San Jose hospital. Chris Schmidt, 33, of Pacific Grove tried to jump off a highway overpass to avoid being hit by an alleged drunken driver … [Read more...]
APPARATUS ON FIRE-PUMP OPERATED PROTECTED BY HIS PPE!!
These two pictures (below) are of a water tender that caught on fire while fighting a structure fire in Bridger Canyon in Montana on Dec. 6, 2006. I was on the scene and the pictures barely do justice. The fire fighter was standing at the pump panel, pump engaged, supplying a 1 … [Read more...]
NEW HAMPSHIRE PILEUP INVOLVES FIRE TRUCK
www.unionleader.com By TODD MORRISON Union Leader Correspondent December 2, 2005 Bow (NH) A Concord city fire truck, on its way to a fire in Hooksett with its sirens and lights on, may have startled a driver who in turn caused a five-car pile-up that also snagged the fire … [Read more...]
FIREFIGHTERS' AND CITIZENS' SAFETY AT RISK DUE TO UNDERSTAFFING
Article published Nov 30, 2005 As the fire-operations chief for the Sarasota County Fire Department from 2002 until 2005 and a 27-year veteran of the SCFD, I can attest to the fact that the safety of the men and women of the department is at great additional risk due to … [Read more...]
November 30, 2005 The Fire Department has announced that all firefighters will be equipped with personal safety ropes by the middle of next year. The news comes six weeks after a round of ropes were recalled over safety concerns a week after they were distributed. Firefighters … [Read more...]
By JOE McGURK, TOM LIDDY and ERIN CALBRESEDecember 3, 2005 -- A firefighter racing to battle a blaze in an older model fire truck with a history of trouble was critically injured in Manhattan last night when he was thrown from the rig and smashed his head on the pavement, … [Read more...]
By Matt Breslow Staff Writer December 4, 2005 NORWALK -- Flames rolled against a ceiling and curled down onto firefighter Phil Brigante in an August blaze "like a finger . . . tapping you on the shoulder," he recalled recently.Norwalk firefighter Phil Brigante of Fairfield does … [Read more...]
BLOCK THE HIGHWAY…..AGAIN!!!
It was mid January 2005 and our small fire dept got called out at about 9:00 PM. It had been raining and then freezing so the highway was slick...our call was a rolled over truck full of explosives. It was a 2 lane highway so we closed of the fast lane and had the right hand side … [Read more...]
MASSACHUSETTS FIREFIGHTER LODD-BRAIN CANCER
It is with deepest regret and sorrow to report the line-of-duty death of Fire Fighter Donald A. Willard of IAFF Local 108 ? Northampton, Massachusetts. Brother Willard died Thursday, November 17, 2005 of brain cancer. Visitation will be held on Sunday, November 20, 2005 from 2:00 … [Read more...]
OFF DUTY MARYLAND FIRE/EMS OFFICER FUNCTIONING AS AN AUX. COP-STRUCK AND PINNED BY SUV-BOTH LEGS AMPUTATED
Twenty-one-year-old Auxiliary Police Officer Petrus Lucas of Glenwood, MD was struck by a Chevrolet Blazer the night of Nov. 23 while directing traffic on Route 40. As of Nov. 28, Lucas remained in the Shock Trauma unit in Baltimore and was listed in critical condition with both … [Read more...]