A drag race resulted in major damage to a fire station in Manatee County (Florida, near Bradenton) fire station around 0600 this morning. While the driver was left with critical injuries, the Firefighters in quarters were uninjured. Southern Manatee Fire District station 5 (on … [Read more...]
4 Firefighters in Routt County (near Steamboat Springs) suffered minor injuries after the fire truck they were in rolled off 200 feet down a steep embankment. The crash happened on Saturday after the West Routt FD Firefighters were leaving the scene of a garage fire. Firefighters … [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...]
NAVI MUMBAI: A 32-year-old Fireman from Ambernath has died in the Line of Duty due to suffocation after a fire broke out at Modi Chemical Company in Taloja MIDC area on Friday late night. The deceased has been identified as Fireman Balu Deshmukh. They received the fire call at … [Read more...]
There's a new FIRE book out I want to tell you about for your Christmas and holiday gift giving:: Taking the Cape Off: How to Lead Through Mental Illness, Unimaginable Grief and Loss. by Fire Chief Pat Kenny Many of you have heard Pat speak at FDIC and other fire … [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...]
2 Firefighter-Medics were injured in a crash that involved an ambulance and a semitrailer in Lebanon, north of Cincinnati. The crash happened around 1100 hours Sunday on State Route 48 at Miller Road when a 2006 Freightliner LFD ambulance was on Miller Road with the emergency … [Read more...]
Yesterday it was Alabama, Saturday it was in New Hampshire-and it happens nearly everyday to Firefighters,Cops, EMT's and related highway responders. This morning's decision to position a Dover FD ladder truck in front of a crash scene prevented a box truck from crashing into … [Read more...]
One person was killed this morning (Sunday) after the vehicle they were riding in struck the back of a Reece City (Alabama) Fire Department apparatus operating/blocking an earlier crash on I-59. Firefighters were called at 0730 hours to the single-vehicle crash in the … [Read more...]
STOP THE INSANITY! Bet your FD insurance company would love a claim for a dead kid. … [Read more...]