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December 3, 2024

APPARATUS ROLLOVERS IN NORTH CAROLINA DUE TO ICE

A West Iredell Fire Department fire truck overturned Tuesday morning due to winter weather. It happened on Interstate 40 near the exit ramp to Old Mountain Road. Firefighters said they were responding to traffic accidents when the wreck occurred. One firefighter had to be taken to an area hospital with injuries. It is unclear how...
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NORTH CAROLINA APPARATUS STRUCK ON I-40

DAVIE COUNTY, N.C. (WGHP) — A fire & rescue truck was struck by another vehicle while responding to a crash on Interstate 40 in Davie County on a snowy Tuesday morning, according to Smith Grove Fire & Rescue. On Tuesday morning, firefighters were told about a crash on I-40 East near Mile Marker 181. At the...
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DRIVER FACES DUI CHARGES AFTER COLLIDING WITH FDNY LADDER

An accused drunken driver was in police custody after barreling head-on into an FDNY ladder truck on a Queens street early Sunday. Jimmy Lealecheverria, 41, crashed a van into a Ladder Co. 143 truck at the corner of 115th St. and Jamaica Ave. in Richmond Hill shortly after 6 a.m., authorities allege. Three firefighters and Lealecheverria were hospitalized with minor injuries, FDNY officials said. Lealecheverria, of Harrison, N.J., was charged with...
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OHIO AMBULANCE INVOLVED IN CRASH

LIMA, OH (WLIO) – A Lima Fire Department ambulance was involved in a two-vehicle accident at the intersection of Robb Avenue and West Street. Nobody was injured in the accident that happened around 11 a.m. Monday. The Lima Police Department and the Lima Fire Department responded to the scene of the crash involving the ambulance...
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IOWA AMBULANCE INVOLVED IN MULTI-VEHICLE CRASH

ALTOONA, Iowa — A multi-vehicle crash has closed a section of the shoulder on Interstate 80 eastbound near Altoona on Monday evening. According to the Iowa Department of Transportation, the left shoulder between U.S. 65 and Exit 142 was blocked as of 7:30 p.m. The Iowa State Patrol says five vehicles are involved in the...
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TODAY: Remember The Worcester 6 (The Secret List)

All, Today, Tuesday, December 3rd (1999)  is 25 years since WFD Lt. Thomas Spencer, Lt. Timothy Jackson, Lt. James Lyons, Firefighter Paul Brotherton, Firefighter Jeremiah Lucey, and Firefighter Joseph McGuirk—died in the Line of Duty operating at what would become a five-alarm fire at the Worcester Cold Storage & Warehouse. The fire started when a...
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