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January 28, 2024

TWO FIREFIGHTERS INJURED AFTER JUMPING FROM 2nd FLOOR WHEN MAN POINTS GUN AT THEM – TEXAS

HOUSTON – Two firefighters were injured after a gun was pointed at them, and they jumped from the second-floor of an apartment complex in southwest Houston on Saturday, according to the Houston Police Department. Houston firefighters responded to the 6000 block of Bissonnet Street at about 11 p.m. to save a man who was having seizures. First responders arrived,...
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NEW HAVEN (CT) FIRE SUV INVOLVED IN FATAL RESPONDING CRASH

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) — A collision involving a fire department vehicle and a Honda Accord left one driver dead last night in New Haven, according to police. Saturday at 8:34 p.m. officers from the New Haven Police Department responded to the intersection of Hemingway and Russell St. for reports of a motor vehicle accident...
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FIREFIGHTER HISTORY 1/28

On 1/28/1986 the Challenger spacecraft exploded 73 seconds into its flight killing all seven crew members after an O-ring seal in its right solid rocket booster failed. The Challenger disaster occurred over the Atlantic Ocean, in U.S. waters, off the coast of central Florida, at 11:39 a.m. On 1/28/1961 nine Chicago Illinois firefighters died while...
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