RIPON, Calif. (KTXL) — For the first time since the pandemic began, four out of 15 Ripon firefighters have tested positive for COVID-19. “There’s five on a shift, and one of the people that was on that shift had been vaccinated, he tested negative,” Ripon Fire District Chief … [Read more...]
RAHWAY – Twenty-seven residents were displaced following a fire Wednesday afternoon in a three-story multi-family residential house on West Cherry Street. Around 2:54 p.m. Wednesday the Rahway fire department responded to 125 West Cherry St. on a report of smoke. Upon arrival, … [Read more...]
Chief Mike Warner and the fire department participated in an optional training program with the Minnesota Firefighter Initiative. On Wednesday, March 3, The Red Wing Fire Department partnered with the Minnesota Firefighter Initiative for a two hour session on emotional … [Read more...]
Richfield firefighters learned how to prevent the three problems most commonly experienced by those in the fire service – cardiac issues, emotional trauma and cancer – as they took part in MnFIRE Aware training recently. A growing number of Minnesota firefighters are … [Read more...]
TARENTUM, Pa. (KDKA) — Two firefighters were injured while battling an apartment fire Thursday morning in Tarentum. The fire was reported before 10:30 a.m. at a home on E. 9th Avenue. It started on the first floor and spread up through the third floor. According to the … [Read more...]
An FDNY firefighter was indicted for allegedly driving while intoxicated and ultimately killing a man in a wrong-way crash on the Sunken Meadow Parkway in November 2020, the Suffolk County District Attorney's Office announced Wednesday. Joseph Norris, 38, of Babylon, was … [Read more...]
MENTOR, Ohio — A Mentor women is being questioned by police after she allegedly set fire to her own home on Wednesday. Around 11:45 a.m., dispatch received a call from a women who said her mother told her that she has set her home on fire and left. Officials … [Read more...]