LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) – The Lincoln Police Department is investigating a series of fictitious emergency calls involving false reports of fires across the city at several homes and an LPS high school. Over the past month, the 911 Emergency Communications Center has received at least eight hoax calls, including four since Monday afternoon. LPD said...Read More
While operating on a Rural Highway (NV-159 mm8 Speed Limit 50mph) after setting up a warning at the top of the hill for eastbound traffic, observed a vehicle slowing down. The driver pulled out their cell phone to record the scene as they approached another vehicle cresting the hill at a normal to high rate...Read More
A shocking report that uncovered decades of racism in an England fire department included harassment against a Black firefighter who later died by suicide, per the International Fire & Safety Journal. An independent review by West Midlands Employers determined that the Gloucestershire Fire and Rescue Service was institutionally racist from 1991 to 2018 as Black firefighters faced bullying,...Read More
All, We regret to pass on that Pittsburgh (PA) Bureau of Fire Battalion Chief John Walsh has died in the Line of Duty after suffering a medical emergency while in command of a house fire. As shared by the Pittsburgh Firefighters Local 1, Battalion Chief 3 John Walsh, who worked out of the bureau’s Station...Read More
PITTSBURGH — A firefighter collapsed while on the scene of a fire in East Hill Wednesday night. Pittsburgh’s Action News 4 was there as crews first began working to put out the flames within the 700 block of Wilkinsburg Avenue after 9 p.m. While on scene, the fire chief told us that a firefighter had...Read More
