A CALEX ambulance driven by service director Jay Wood hit ice on an Interstate 91 bridge in Bradford, crashed through the guardrail and plunged down an embankment to South Main Street below Saturday afternoon. Wood suffered a fractured heel, while his passenger EMS responder Jay Benitez had vertebrae fractures and three broken ribs. There were...Read More
Subject: FCC Launches new webpage dedicated to narrowbanding public safety communications – www.fcc.gov/narrowbanding FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: NEWS MEDIA CONTACT: December 6, 2010 Robert Kenny 202-418-2668 [email protected] FCC’s PUBLIC SAFETY AND HOMELAND SECURITY BUREAU LAUNCHES NEW...Read More
Last week, 30 volunteer firefighters for the Bonnyville Regional Fire Authority (BRFA) went off duty due to concerns about safety. At no time were MD or Town of Bonnyville residents without adequate protection, according to Regional Fire Chief Brian McEvoy. “We were able to realign our response areas and everything else to make sure that...Read More
For those younger visitors to www.FireFighterCloseCalls.com , today is "Pearl Harbor Day" and we remember the attack on Pearl Harbor, which was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on the morning of December 7, 1941. 188 U.S. aircraft were destroyed, 2,402 personnel were killed...Read More
Hey,A Federal judge has dismissed a suit in federal court filed by the family of a fire cadet who died in a “live burn” exercise in Baltimore in 2007. The Judge ruled Friday that 29-year-old cadet Racheal Wilson could have refused to take part in the exercise. He said the exercise does not create grounds...Read More
