A new Asheville city report points generally to a faulty (potentially debris in pipe(s)) standpipe contributing to the Line of Duty death of Captain Jeff Bowen in that medical office building blaze last month. AFD Firefighters also went without consistent water for longer than previously thought. Nearly 38 minutes passed from the time the first companies left their stations to when they were...Read More
We just received some additional facts regarding the apparatus crash that occurred in Illinois yesterday. Both Otto Township Firefighters are improving and BOTH WERE wearing seat belts. They did sustain serious injuries when their tanker crashed and overturned while responding on a fire call. The driver of the tanker, Captain James Turner, 67, was taken to Riverside Medical Center in Kankakee in...Read More
The South Carolina Highway Patrol was called to an accident early Saturday morning after a car ran into the back of a fire truck in Berkeley County. According to the incident report, a fire truck was parked in the far right lane with its emergency lights on working at the scene of accident on US-17A...Read More
