At about 8:30 p.m. Saturday, a four-vehicle pile-up on Watkins Drive at Beasely involving a fire truck, a taxi cab and an ambulance sent 10 people to the hospital. Investigators said they weren’t sure what caused the crash in which a fire truck was damaged and an ambulance overturned. One woman had to be cut...Read More
Stockton firefighters have swallowed a bitter financial pill. It did not go down easy and everyone knows this will not completely cure what ails Stockton. But everyone – including city firefighters – knew this had to be done. The fact that of the approximately 155 firefighters a 2-to-1 margin agreed to deep cuts shows a...Read More
A FIREFIGHTER DRIVING A PUMPER to a training academy on Saturday morning was killed in a head-on crash. Lieutenant Frederic Jacob, 41, was alone and driving the truck to the class when the fire engine crashed head-on with a tractor trailer on a 2-lane highway near the town of Verosvres. The horrific crash completely demolished...Read More
An emergency medical technician has been accused of fondling a woman he was supposed to be helping. David Taranto, an EMT for the city, was arrested on charges he allegedly groped a female patient last month in the back of an ambulance while she was being transported from the scene of an accident on Staten...Read More
