A White River Township firefighter is suing the department, charging that administrators unfairly restricted his job duties and violated his rights under the Americans with Disabilities Act. Fire Prevention Chief Eric Brown filed suit in U.S. District Court last week. Brown, who has a temporal lobe seizure disorder, is asking for restoration of lost pay...Read More
Denver firefighters ran into more than the normal hazards at a house fire. Crews responding to the blaze Wednesday also had to battle bedbugs, the bloodsucking insects quickly becoming the scourge of households and businesses across the country. Lt. Phil Champagne of the Denver Fire Department tells The Denver Post that firefighters had to be...Read More
Denver firefighters ran into more than the normal hazards at a house fire. Crews responding to the blaze Wednesday also had to battle bedbugs, the bloodsucking insects quickly becoming the scourge of households and businesses across the country. Lt. Phil Champagne of the Denver Fire Department tells The Denver Post that firefighters had to be...Read More
Conway firefighters had a pretty quick response time when the engine of one of their fire trucks caught fire. The Log Cabin Democrat reports that a ladder truck caught fire Tuesday while it was being driven to the downtown station. Conway Fire Chief Bart Castleberry says the turbo malfunctioned and caused oil to flow onto...Read More
From the Brandon Sun RCMP say that tires on a pickup truck came loose and caused an ambulance to crash on the highway yesterday afternoon near Carman. Although the ambulance was transporting patients at the time of the crash, there were no injuries caused as a result of the collision. At 3:45 p.m. on Sept. 28,...Read More
By Barry Nelson, Health Editor – The Northern Echo TWO paramedics were left shaken after their ambulance was hit by an airgun pellet. The incident happened last Wednesday in Seaham Road, Houghton-le-Spring, Wearside. Within a few minutes of the ambulance coming under fire, a car had a side window shattered in the same area, although...Read More
