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April 30, 2023

ENGINE STRUCK WHILE WORKING PREVIOUS CRASH SCENE – NEW JERSEY

From the Collings Lakes Fire Department Facebook Page: Yesterday afternoon, Collings Lakes Fire Department units operated on a motor vehicle crash on the Black Horse Pike. While operating on that incident and blocking the eastbound side of the Black Horse Pike due to a pole and wires down across the highway, Squad 12-31 was struck...
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FIREFIGHTER INJURED IN RESTAURANT FIRE – WISCONSIN

BELLEVUE, Wis. (WBAY) – Fire broke out in the kitchen area of the Egg Yolk Cafe at 2601 Monroe Road late Friday. The Green Bay Metro Fire Department said crews found smoke coming from the roof area and fire coming from the kitchen area around 11:00 p.m. “When I got there I saw like 50...
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ENGINE FALLS INTO SINKHOLE WHILE RETURNING FROM CALL – NEW JERSEY

No one was injured when part of a Hackensack fire truck fell into a hole overnight. A spokesperson for the fire department tells News 4 that Engine 5 was returning from a call just after 2:30 a.m. when the right passenger side of the truck sank into the hole. A contractor had been working in...
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FIREFIGHTER HISTORY 4/30

On 4/30/2014 a natural gas explosion at the Escambia County jail in Pensacola, Florida killed two inmates and injured 184 of the 600 inmates and corrections officers in the facility when a gas line exploded around 11:00 p.m. The explosion was believed to have originated in a rear laundry room on the first floor.  The...
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