A man involved in a hit-and-run crash last week that injured a motorcyclist and killed a Delaware City firefighter was charged with murder today. State police detectives charged Joseph M. Taye Jr., 28, of the 600 block of Belgian Drive in Bear, with first-degree murder in the Dec. 22 death of 30-year-old Michelle Smith and...Read More
Troopers from the Collision Reconstruction Unit at Troop 2 formally charged Joseph Taye, 28, of Bear approximately one hour ago with Murder in the first degree. This charge was upgraded from Manslaughter due to Michelle Smith of the Delaware City (DE) Fire Company losing her life while performing her duties. Mr. Taye’s charge of Assault 2nd was changed...Read More
The Philadelphia Firefighter’s union http://www.iaff22.org has lost their battle to prevent the Mayor from closing 7 fire companies as part of the city’s current budget crisis. The judge claimed that the Firefighters failed to show that the cuts posed a threat to public safety. Things that make you go Hmmm. Be it seconds or minutes-how can those cuts NOT pose a...Read More
Lifelong Princeton Junction resident and Volunteer Firefighter with 37 years as a FF died in the line of Duty Saturday afternoon after returning from a routine call. FF Dennis McClenahan, 54, passed away from a heart attack at home only a few hours after responding to a minor alarm at Nassau Park Pavilion mall. "We came...Read More
As we were getting ready to send this-we were advised of THREE serious active FD incidents: 1-North Babylon-Suffolk County NY. Apparatus involved crash requesting EMS units, people trapped. 2-Waldorf, Maryland-A vehicle crash into apparatus, possibly involving multiple vehicles, civilian pinned-no FF’s reported injured. 3-Houston-Kent County-DE-A FF thru the floor at a fire-trapped-rescued-now being treated Details will follow either here...Read More
FRENCH FIREFIGHTER DIES IN THE LINE OF DUTY DURING SEARCH The Secret List – www.FireFighterCloseCalls.com A Firefighter from Narbonne (France) died in the Line of Duty yesterday (Sunday, December 28, 08) after a search for a victim at a working fire that occurred on Christmas Day, December 25th. At around 1730, the Narbonne (France) FD...Read More
