At the East Spencer fire department, no one was talking about what happened last month when firefighters and their family gathered for their annual Christmas party. That was where fire chief Shane Cranfield and former chief Allen Carlyle allegedly used a taser to shock an 18-year old firefighter. On Monday, Cranfield was fired and Carlyle...Read More
When the call came in at 5:24 a.m. Monday, firefighters and municipal officials in the New Brunswick village of Rogersville could hardly believe their ears. “This is fire control. This is to advise the Rogersville fire department that your fire hall is on fire,” recalled Gerald Fournier, Rogersville’s general manager and clerk, who described the...Read More
Firefighters found themselves in a tight spot this past weekend at the scene of a house fire on Detroit’s west side where people were trapped inside. The crowd around them was getting unruly and they needed help. Detroit firefighters say this was a scene that was getting out of control and the police response to...Read More
Many times those who battle against mental illness and eventually succumb to the pain and take their lives are looked at as cowards. A very telling view by the famous author Norman Vincent Peale From an article by Norman Vincent Peale “A few years ago, when a young man died...Read More
State police investigators are waiting for autopsy results on an ambulance driver killed Buckingham County. Timothy Southern, 21, was driving a Priority Patient Transport ambulance Friday when police say he crossed the center line and smashed into a cement truck. Southern died along with Howard Watson, the patient being transported. All ambulance drivers are required...Read More
