MANCHESTER, Ky. (LEX News) — Multiple firefighters are now recovering from injuries sustained while fighting a fire that reached an estimated 1,375 degrees Fahrenheit at a Manchester home Friday. According to the City of Manchester Fire Department, crews responded to a two-story home just before 11 a.m. Friday. When they arrived, they found the home...Read More
BALTIMORE, MD (WBFF) — A Department of Transportation (DOT) facility did not have working sprinklers or a fire alarm system for a period of years, according to the latest report from the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) of Baltimore City. The report states that the OIG received a complaint regarding unsafe work conditions at...Read More
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Firefighters battled a blaze Thursday at the Park Hill Apartments in Clifton, leaving one FDNY member and one civilian injured, officials said. The call came in at 1:16 p.m. for a reported fire on the fourth floor of 140 Park Hill Ave., a seven-story apartment complex. The fire was brought under...Read More
BOSTON — Fallen Boston firefighter Robert “BK” Kilduff Jr. had warned other firefighters to “get back” right before a portion of a Dorchester home collapsed, and he fell three stories. Kilduff’s last selfless act mimicked his whole life, fellow Rescue 2 firefighter Lt. Greg Kelly said at his friend and colleague’s funeral service Monday. “He’s leaving such...Read More
A Fort Worth firefighter who was battling stage 4 pancreatic cancer – and simultaneously fighting to find a lifesaving kidney donor for his wife – has died. Todd Brook, a 30‑year veteran of the department, died after months of declining health. CBS News Texas recently interviewed him as he worked to help his wife, Jennifer, secure...Read More
