Fire in a two-story house in Glen Burnie Saturday caused an estimated $200,000 in damages and injured a resident and a firefighter, a spokesman for the Anne Arundel County Fire Department said. It took 40 Anne Arundel County firefighters around 40 minutes to control the fire, which spread from the deck to an outside fence...Read More
The union that represents Cal Fire firefighters in the Riverside County Unit has filed a workplace-safety complaint with the Division of Occupational Safety and Health, or Cal/OSHA, alleging that unusual levels of physical fatigue and mental stress have set in because of excessive overtime worked due to inadequate staffing. Even during normal times, state firefighters...Read More
By Katie Kindelan, ABC News A female firefighter in Colorado who learned that her treatment for breast cancer would not be covered under her health coverage fought for change in order to level the playing field for all firefighters. Tracy Post, a lieutenant in the Westminster, Colorado, fire department, was diagnosed with stage 2 invasive ductal carcinoma in November 2019. Post,...Read More
All, A 17-year-old Junior Firefighter was critically injured at a fire yesterday. The member, a Ridgefield Park (west of NYC) High School senior, had just arrived at a trash bin fire behind a Japanese restaurant when a pressurized canister stored on a nearby wooden pallet exploded. The Firefighter was rushed to Hackensack University Medical Center for emergency...Read More
A FIREFIGHTER is nearing the end of a year-long slog to run three miles everyday for charity. Paul Bainbridge, from Red Watch, set the challenge last March and is due to end his personal marathon for If U Care Share and The Firefighters’ Charity on March 31. Mr Bainbridge, from Great Lumley, will run the...Read More
3/15/1888 two Milwaukee, WI firefighters were killed, and four firefighters were injured at the West Water Street fire. “One of the most destructive fires to life and property Milwaukee has ever known broke out at 1:45 a.m. Before it was under control the fire gutted a large four-story brick block on West Water Street, opposite...Read More
