A Durham firefighter was taken to the hospital after fighting a fire late Tuesday night. After 11 p.m., the Durham Fire Department responded to a home in the 1500 block of Ruffin Street. There were smoke and flames in the rear of the one-story, wood-framed home when crews arrived. Seventeen units and 39 firefighters worked...Read More
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) — Fourteen firefighters at the Los Angeles Fire Department’s Station 80, near Los Angeles International Airport, have tested positive for COVID-19. According to LAFD, the firefighters were at home after testing positive either Monday or Tuesday. The station, part of the department’s West Bureau, has since been disinfected and there was “no...Read More
Oshawa is the first fire department in Canada to use a new location technology that uses three words to pinpoint exactly where an emergency call is coming from. The UK-based technology, called ‘what3words’, divides the world into a grid of 3×3 metre squares and assigns each square with a unique three-word identifier. The encoding is...Read More
AIKEN, SC (WRDW/WAGT) – An all-new I-Team investigation begins with a heart attack — a mother collapses on the floor. Her family, knowing seconds count, begins CPR and dials Aiken County 911. The I-Team obtained this 911 call from that day. The dispatcher only sent one first responder instead of two, violating policy for emergency...Read More
7/8/1946 a Tucson, AZ firefighter died at a fire that developed in some paper and rages under the bed of a city garbage truck. “The driver of the dump truck drove the burning vehicle to Station 2 on North Fourth Avenue, with flames shooting from beneath the floor of the truck. The firefighter quickly grabbed...Read More
