(LINK TO FULL REPORT BELOW) Firefighter Mitchell F. Lundgaard was a married father of three who joined the Appleton department in 2005. On May 15, 2019, Firefighter Lundgaard was killed, and a police officer and a civilian were injured after being shot while on an emergency … [Read more...]
By John Annese, New York Daily News A large metal bolt smashed the window of a moving Fire Department EMS ambulance in Brooklyn, and police are looking into whether the object was intentionally thrown. The EMS crew was driving south on Marcus Garvey Blvd. near Quincy St. in … [Read more...]
NASHVILLE EXPLOSION: Here is some of the Nashville FD initial radio traffic from this morning's … [Read more...]
On Christmas eve 2012, Firefighters Tomasz Kaczowka, 19 and Michael Chiapperini, 43 were shot and killed in an ambush attack in West Webster, New York. It was a fire call, on Christmas eve, a car fire with an exposure, the sort of “so called routine job” that all of us turn … [Read more...]
Two FDNY EMS members were robbed at gunpoint after responding to a call for help at a Brooklyn apartment building. The unsuspecting medics went to 330 Frost St. in East Williamsburg around 0240 hours this morning (Saturday) after getting a run about someone with a “medical … [Read more...]
A pair of Emergency Medical Technicians working for a Brooklyn (part of the FDNY 9-1-1 system response) hospital were robbed at gunpoint as they responded to a bogus 911 call at a NYCHA apartment building, officials and sources said today. The EMTs, a 28-year-old woman and a … [Read more...]
A Charlotte (NC) FD apparatus and two other cars were struck by bullets this morning in southwest Charlotte. Engine 5 was struck with a round in their windshield. They were responding to backup Engine 43 on a different shooting. Cops are investigating the shooting that happened … [Read more...]
The Our Lady of Angels fire anniversary (Dec. 1, 1958) in Chicago where 92 kids and four nuns lost their lives – a day in 1958 where the heroics of Chicago firefighters were well documented. 3 VIDEOS OF THE OUR LADY OF ANGELS SCHOOL … [Read more...]
Violence against Firefighters and related first responders has increased since the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis, according to D.C.’s acting chief of DC Fire & EMS John Donnelly, who said he’s still trying to come to grips with an incident Sunday where a firefighter/EMT was … [Read more...]
Gunfire struck a D.C. Firefighter who was tending to a shooting victim in Southwest Washington, DC this evening. A man and a woman were shot about 1620 hours in the parking lot of a 7-Eleven on MLK Avenue. Someone fired more shots at the scene a short time later, striking a D.C. … [Read more...]