A Trenton firefighter was seriously injured Monday when he fell from Engine 9 while responding to a fire call, officials said. The firefighter, who was not named, apparently flew out of the engine at about 1:30 p.m. in the area of Parkside Avenue while the apparatus went around a curve. Trenton Fire Director Qareeb Bashir...Read More
The conditions inside a burning building are perilous and can change rapidly. For firefighters searching for people trapped within a burning building, these risks can be exacerbated in a matter of seconds as exposure to high temperature may cause their personal protective equipment (PPE) to fail. This is particularly true in the presence of infrared...Read More
Eight people were displaced after a two-story residence fire that happened in the 500 block of West Selman Street Sunday morning. According to Tyler Assistant Fire Marshal Brandon David, all eight people were unharmed and two were assisted by firefighters. Around 10:18 a.m., Tyler Fire and Police Departments responded to heavy smoke coming from a two-story...Read More
Multiple firefighters were taken to the hospital after an overnight fire on Sunday that engulfed a business and some apartments in Salisbury. Somerset County dispatch said the fire happened at a tanning salon on the 200 block of Ord Street. Dispatch also said there are apartments above the tanning salon that were engulfed by the...Read More
Driven by a stiff wind, fire spread swiftly through the fertilizer plant in West, Texas, on that spring evening in 2013. By the time the first volunteer fire companies arrived, flames engulfed the seed room and threatened storage bins laden with 60 tons of ammonium nitrate. “Gonna blow!” a former firefighter who’d driven to the...Read More
Two San Juan firefighters were taken to the hospital after their fire truck flipped over. San Juan police chief Juan Gonzalez said it happened around 12:30 p.m. Saturday in the westbound lanes of the expressway not far from the Basilica. The crash caused traffic on the expressway from Donna to San Juan for hours. Officers...Read More
