A firefighter and at least three residents were injured Monday afternoon in a fire at a Gardena apartment building. The fire was reported at about noon at a two-story building in the 12900 block of South Vermont Avenue. Flames were knocked down about 40 minutes later. Details about how the fire started were not immediately available. At least...Read More
GULFPORT, Miss. (WLOX) – Firefighters didn’t have to travel far to douse the flames at a Gulfport fire station. According to Chief Billy Kelley, workers were grinding metal at Station 2 on 42nd Street when sparks ignited a fire. Chief Billy Kelley said workers were grinding metal when some of the sparks ignited a fire...Read More
The Ketchikan Gateway Borough Assembly voted last week to enact a disaster declaration for the recent station fire that devastated the South Tongass Fire Department. Mayors from the borough and cities of Saxman and Ketchikan issued the disaster declaration on April 12. South Tongass Fire Chief Steve Rydeen choked up as he took the podium at the...Read More
Long shrouded in mystery, firefighter suicide recently emerged as one of the foremost problems in the fire service. Although researchers still build consensus through various studies, firefighters die by suicide at a rate that’s significantly more than the general population. Additionally, some estimates of rates of suicidal ideation for firefighters range as high as eight...Read More
On 4/22/1869 a Baltimore, Maryland firefighter “died in agony as a result of painful injuries sustained in the wall collapse on April 17th. One leg was severely burned from his hip to his heel, and he suffered internal injuries. As firefighters reached him in the debris, he told them he was okay and to move...Read More
