Two volunteer firefighters have been indicted for assaulting a career firefighter at the scene of a blaze in Prince George’s County a year ago. The indictment, announced Tuesday, stems from an incident on Dec. 8, 2015, when officials say Jeffry Miller and Chris Kelly — both members of Volunteer Company 28 — fought with a...Read More
Two firefighters suffered minor injuries Tuesday morning while fighting a blaze at a vacant three-story building in the 2300 block of Virginia Avenue. One of the firefighters was taken to a hospital for treatment. The other was treated at the scene by paramedics. It wasn’t immediately clear what kind of injuries they had suffered. Flames were...Read More
For those younger visitors to www.FireFighterCloseCalls.com , today, “Pearl Harbor Day”remembers the attack on Pearl Harbor, which was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on the morning of December 7, 1941. 188 U.S. aircraft were destroyed, 2,402 personnel were killed and 1,282...Read More
APPLE VALLEY, Calif. (VVNG) An ambulance and an SUV collided head-on Sunday afternoon causing one person to be airlifted. The crash was reported at 1:23 p.m. involving a black Chevy Tahoe and an American Medical Response (AMR) ambulance, at the intersection of Deep Creek Road and Rock Springs Road. The ambulance was traveling southbound on Deep Creek Road...Read More
EAST ORANGE, NJ – Saturday was a busy day for first responders in Montclair that ended with an awkward tale of events. After rescuing a man who had become trapped in a trench with an oil tank, emergency workers began transporting the man to University of Medicine and Dentistry Hospital (UMDNJ), TAPinto Montclair first reported. While traveling...Read More
When an ambulance driver using her phone’s GPS got distracted and crashed through a guardrail, rolling off an embankment in north-central Ohio in August 2014, the consequences were dire: A 56-year-old patient was ejected and killed, and an EMS worker was injured. The emergency medical service worker was not strapped in, and the patient was...Read More
