New Hampshire police may not be authorized to order residents out of their homes in a flood, but fire chiefs are. The state Supreme Court on Thursday reversed a lower court ruling that threw out charges against Evelyn Bernard, of Allenstown, N.H. She was arrested in April 2007 when she and her husband refused a...Read More
DYER, Ark. – A local fire department has been hit hard after a dangerous barn fire last Friday. Several Dyer city firefighters were sent to the hospital Friday night after breathing toxic smoke during a barn fire. The last of the firefighters was released from the hospital Wednesday after he and three others had inhaled smoke containing...Read More
A house fire in Hampton (CT) resulted in the crash of a tower ladder from Scotland (CT). When firefighters arrived, they found the house consumed by flame and smoke. "The majority was already gone," said Noel Waite, Fire Marshall for the town of Hampton. No one was in the home, according to officials on the...Read More
It is with deep regret that we advise you that Detroit Firefighter Walt Harris Sr (his son is also on the DFD) died in the Line of Duty this morning around 0600 hours while operating as a reported vacant dwelling fire. Initial reports are that FF Harris lost his footing on the roof of the vacant house and fell...Read More
