Frank (Leeb) and I have spent the last couple of years putting this book together with our contributors, a book that we are very proud of. It is a non-profit project with all of our royalties going to the below 4 fire service charities. 30 Fires You Must Know* (check the link below) offers an inside look at...Read More
As you will remember, Patuxent River Naval Air Station Firefighter Brice Trossbach answered his final alarm in June 2023. He was also a member of the Leonardtown VFD where the incident occurred, he responded in his career capacity on mutual aid to that fire in Leonardtown. BRIEF SUMMARY: Just after 0400, June 27, 2023, Leonardtown VFD and...Read More
Tragic news from Florida as St. Johns County Fire Chief Sean McGee shared his condolences Saturday after a Lieutenant and his wife were found dead inside their home in what the sheriff’s office called a murder-suicide, leaving 4 young children behind. SJCFR Lieutenant Shawn Yarbrough, 46, and his wife Andrea Yarbrough, 34, were found shot...Read More
It was on April 4, 2008 when Firefighters from Colerain Township (Hamilton Co, OH) responded to the type of fire dispatch that we all have turned out on many, many times. However, in this case, what was initially a reported automatic alarm resulted in double Line of Duty Deaths of a Captain and one of her Firefighters. While responding...Read More
“When I started we had a kind of a tradition that you sent the new guy in, or new girl in, to do all the dirty work, or all the unfavorable work, so to speak,” Brian Thompson with the Sutter County Fire Department says in a scene from the new documentary “Yes, There is Hope”...Read More
Not sure how to write this. so here it is. Many if not all of you know Brother Mike Wilbur from FDNY, FDIC, Firehouse and so much more. Mike’s son Nick (a Firefighter in Arlington VA and College Park, PG County, MD) ) and his wife Alyson, have a beautiful daughter named Rowan. Rowan has...Read More
