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December 26, 2008

NEW ZEALAND FIREFIGHTER KILLED IN THE LINE OF DUTY – APPARATUS ROLLOVER CRASH

A volunteer rural firefighter from the small Hicks Bay Voluntary Rural Fire Force has died at the scene of a fire appliance rollover on State Highway 35 at Potaka in eastern Bay of Plenty. Another has been airlifted in a serious condition to hospital. The Hicks Bay fire aparatus, a 1978 Bedford 4×4 was responding...
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TEXAS FIRE DEPARTMENT EMS UNIT CRASH KILLS 3 CIVILIANS

A Shreveport (LA) family perished Christmas morning in a two-vehicle accident that also injured two men with the Bonham Fire Department. Pronounced dead were Pamela Kay Touart, 59, and her twin sons, Cameron Wayne Boudreau and Kipp Leonard Boudreau, 29 years old. According to Leonard Police Officer Kim Dillard, the wreck happened at 6:05 a.m.,...
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Casualty assaults paramedic – UK

A paramedic who was called to reports of an unconscious man in Totnes has been attacked by a man he was treating. He was called the attend to the man, on a riverbank near the Royal Seven Stars at about 4.30pm on Tuesday. The casualty suddenly became aggressive and punched the male paramedic, 41, in...
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HE CAN’T WALK SOFTLY…BUT HE CARRIED A BIG STICK….The Line of Duty Death of a Delaware Firefighter

Just when you thought the circumstances related to the horrific hit and run Line of Duty Death of Delaware City (DE) Firefighter Michelle Smith couldn’t get any worse…it does. This isn’t the first time that career criminal Joseph Taye was involved in a hit and run….why, just one year ago, the paraplegic Taye…yeah, paraplegic… (Taye was paralyzed...
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HE CAN'T WALK SOFTLY…BUT HE CARRIED A BIG STICK….The Line of Duty Death of a Delaware Firefighter

Just when you thought the circumstances related to the horrific hit and run Line of Duty Death of Delaware City (DE) Firefighter Michelle Smith couldn’t get any worse…it does. This isn’t the first time that career criminal Joseph Taye was involved in a hit and run….why, just one year ago, the paraplegic Taye…yeah, paraplegic… (Taye was paralyzed...
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INDIANA FIREFIGHTER STRUCK, RAN OVER AND PINNED UNDER SEMI WHILE OPERATING AT THE SCENE OF A CRASH

A Jamestown (IN) Firefighter is in surgery after a semi truck struck and ran him over near the scene of 2 others crashes on I-74 near the Boone/Hendricks County line around 1000 hours this morning. The Firefighter was at the scene of the crashes when the semi hit him, and after he was hit, he was pinned under the semi for about 30...
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