CAPE GIRARDEAU, MO (KFVS) – An ambulance crew finds themselves in the middle of a hit and run crash. It happened around 3 a.m. Sunday in 2000 block of New Madrid Street in Cape Girardeau. "I couldn’t believe it. Who’d actually hit an ambulance and then take off? I didn’t see that happening," said Taylor...Read More
No one was injured when a medical helicopter hit a power line while lifting off from the scene of an accident in Council Bluffs. Pottawattamie County Sheriff Jeff Danker says the helicopter was called to help a man who had fallen off a ladder Wednesday evening. Danker says the accident happened when the Life Net...Read More
Woodland’s rural fire chief escaped injury, but one woman was taken to St. John Medical Center Friday afternoon after a minivan broadsided his emergency vehicle at Tennant Way and 11th Avenue in Longview. A Chevrolet SUV driven into the intersection by Eric Dehning, chief of Cowlitz Fire District 1 in Woodland, was T-boned by a...Read More
Three Gadsden firefighters have been injured when a floor collapsed during a fire at a home, The Firefighters responded to the call of the fire just after 1700 hours and had fire and smoke coming from the house. As the FF’s operated, a wall collapsed and three firefighters were injured, but the injuries are reported...Read More
Hey, A 26-year-old civilian was killed last night in a crash with responding fire apparatus in Florida. At around 2100 hours, the civilian was driving his pick-up truck in one direction while a responding fire apparatus driven by a Hernando County Firefighter/Paramedic was reportedly going in the opposite. Apparently the civilian veered his truck into the opposite lanes...Read More
While we (logistically) cannot list all job related cancer line of duty deaths from Firefighting, we do want to take a moment to express our condolences in the very sad passing of Seattle FD’s Battalion Chief Dave Jacobs, who has died from cancer. Dave was a major player in fighting for the rights of Firefighters...Read More
