Battlefield Engine-1 arrived and was assigned to perform a primarysearch on the B1 exposure. While crews were extendinglines and preparing to enter the home, a loud “pop” was heard. Onefirefighter from Engine-1 went down and a “MAYDAY” was called. ALSPersonnel from Nixa Fire District immediately began to assess the firefighterand found a large laceration to the upper left thigh, consistent...Read More
by Patrick Carragher ( [email protected] ) SOMERS POINT — A teenage girl was struck by an ambulance while riding her bike Thursday afternoon in Somers Point.It happened around 1 p.m. on W. Laurel Drive, near Vassar Drive.Police say the ambulance, owned by Shore Medical Center, was traveling westbound on Laurel Drive when it struck the 13-year-old girl....Read More
Battlefield Engine-1 arrived and was assigned to perform a primarysearch on the B1 exposure. While crews were extendinglines and preparing to enter the home, a loud “pop” was heard. Onefirefighter from Engine-1 went down and a “MAYDAY” was called. ALSPersonnel from Nixa Fire District immediately began to assess the firefighterand found a large laceration to the upper left thigh, consistent...Read More
One ambulance crashed into a central strip and kept driving to Mater Dei Hospital on a deflated tyre while another broke down on the way to an emergency in Gudja on Wednesday, causing a patient to wait an hour-and-a-half on the ground for another to be sent. In a statement yesterday announcing directives to all...Read More
A 59-year-old Sage man has been charged with driving over the foot of a fire captain who was battling the Buck Fire in Aguanga Tuesday afternoon, fire officials announced this evening. Gregory Lance Good is being held in lieu of $30,000 bail at the Southwest Detention Center in Murrieta on charges of assault with a...Read More
An Iraq war veteran undergoing treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder for the past three years will lose his job Friday as a city firefighter. “I got a letter last week that I will be terminated Friday,” Jeffrey Wright said. “They have tried to paint a very misleading picture of what’s going on here.” Wright, 36,...Read More
