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March 4, 2011

MI ENGINE FLIPS WHILE RESPONDING

A Clay Township, MI fire truck was involved in a Friday morning accident while responding to an emergency call. It happened around 8 a.m. on Holland Road. Investigators say the rig hit an icy patch of road when it lost control and flipped over. Nobody was hurt.   Clay Township officials say another fire truck quickly...
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Man Critically Injured In Wreck With KS Fire Truck

A man was in critical condition after a vehicle was involved in a wreck with an Overland Park fire truck on the eastbound Interstate 435 exit ramp to Antioch Road Friday morning. The man, in his 50s, was unconscious with a head injury, fire officials said. The person in the original wreck that the fire...
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BULLET MISSES FIREFIGHTER IN NC FIREHOUSE

Thanks to Dave Statter (www.Statter911.com) for sharing this story A fight between two women outside a Raleigh fire station on South Saunders Street early Thursday could have ended in tragedy when a bullet went flying into the building, just inches above a sleeping firefighter. “He was lying in bed asleep, and all of a sudden, he...
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NUMEROUS CLOSE CALLS AT ACCIDENT SCENE

February 24th, 2011 at approximately 2000 hours my department was dispatched for a single vehicle accident w/ unknown injuries or entrapment. Our rescue and an engine went in route within 2 minutes us being dispatched. we arrived on scene at the same time as the ambulance. Once on scene we found a single vehicle had...
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FATAL CRASH IN PVFC FIREHOUSE PARKING LOT

Pikesville Volunteer firefighters didn’t have far to go for a working vehicle rescue on Wednesday night March 2, with the crash occurring in the firehouse parking lot. Shortly after 7:30 p.m., a PVFC member leaving the station noticed a Land Rover SUV on top of a parked Chevy passenger car. Upon further investigation, he found...
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BRUSH TRUCK CLASS IN MA

Wenham firetruck is out of service this week after icy conditions sent a vehicle colliding with the truck, injuring a call firefighter, who was sent to Beverly Hospital. The firefighter, whom Chief Robert Blanchard would not identify, was treated for minor injuries after the Monday morning accident and has returned to work. The firetruck, a...
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