It is with regret that we advise you that earlier today 37 year old Firefighter Steve "Tiny" Kline, who was on duty in Stone Park (IL) suffered a heart attack in the fire station. Initial reports are that FF Klein got up from chair and dropped in cardiac arrest. SPFD FF’s immediately responded but their attempts...Read More
It is with regret that we advise you that earlier today 37 year old Firefighter Steve "Tiny" Kline, who was on duty in Stone Park (IL) suffered a heart attack in the fire station. Initial reports are that FF Klein got up from chair and dropped in cardiac arrest. SPFD FF’s immediately responded but their attempts...Read More
Two Firefighters were injured while attempting to extinguish the remains of a fire that flared up again Monday night, Nov. 17 in Butler County, OH. Emergency dispatchers summoned the Madison Twp. life squad to the scene of the fire 8:45 p.m. for a report of two firefighters down. The two were transported to Atrium Medical Center...Read More
Police have charged a Provincetown volunteer firefighter with speeding and operating a firetruck dangerously following an investigation into a Nov. 9 crash that totaled the town’s only ladder truck. Elias Martinez, 21, who joined the Provincetown volunteer fire department as a junior firefighter at age 13, was driving the truck during a routine test at...Read More
This is the Loudoun County Department of Fire, Rescue, and Emergency Management Significant Injury Investigative Report for 43238 Meadowood Court. The Department is sharing the Report in an effort to reduce and prevent firefighter injuries and Line of Duty Deaths (LODDs) across the County, regionally, statewide, and nationally. On May 25, 2008, fire and rescue...Read More
During a recent training exercise, I was demonstrating various methods of forcible entry on a door prop. While demonstrating how to force an inward swinging door, I inserted the adz end of the Haligan into the door jam and began to pull down to “gap” the door. The adz slipped out of the door jam causing the...Read More
