Firefighter Killed by Backdraft Explosion During Multiple Alarm Fire in Row of Mercantile Buildings – Montgomery, Alabama – July 7, 1967 On July 7, 1967, Montgomery, Alabama Fireman Hershel O. Roy died in an early-morning fire in a row of six stores, each ranging in height from three to four stories in the downtown business...Read More
WARREN COUNTY, Miss. — One firefighter was hospitalized, and several others were treated for heat exhaustion Monday evening while battling a large house fire in southern Warren County, according to the Vicksburg Daily News. The fire broke out in the 14000 block of U.S. Highway 61 South near Dogwood Road, where firefighters arrived to find...Read More
HARLAN COUNTY, Ky. (WYMT) – Six firefighters with the Sunshine Fire Department were taken to the hospital by ambulance after a man sprayed bear mace at the scene of a house fire off U.S. Highway 421 in the Baxter community on July 4. Chief and assistant chief both hospitalized The department’s chief and assistant chief,...Read More
Recently, female firefighters from the Phoenix Fire Department took part in a Female Firefighter Cancer Cohort Study, being run by the University of Arizona and Florida State University. “We’re taking specific measurements of their gear and their body, and then their going into a live fire training and then we’re going to be collecting some...Read More
All, We regret to pass on that a longtime Carbon County (NW of Allentown PA) Fire Chief died in the Line of Duty Saturday morning after suffering a medical episode just hours after responding to emergency calls. Chief William “Bill” George, 74, of Aquashicola, who served as chief of the Aquashicola Volunteer Fire Company and...Read More
