An 18-year-old woman was killed, three residents were taken to a hospital and two Sterling Heights firefighters suffered burns during a house fire today. Firefighters were called around 8:15 a.m. Wednesday to a home in the 37000 block of Mariano Drive. The family was trapped and … [Read more...]
We regret to pass on that a Firefighter died in the Line of Duty at an under-construction building that caught fire in the Business Bay area at around 1040 hours on Saturday morning in Dubai. The Firefighter Corporal Tarik Abdullah Al Hawai, was operating at the fire on the … [Read more...]
A new US cancer database - the Firefighter Cancer Registry which was fully funded by Congress in June - aims to track the careers and health histories of thousands of firefighters in order to better understand the link between emergency work and disease, writes Victoria … [Read more...]
This fire has intrigued me from when I first earned about it as a very young Firefighter, so I wanted to pass it on as today is the anniversary. June 26 1964: Marshall's Creek (PA, about 2 hours NW of NYC) Firefighter's responded to the community fire siren sounding-it was a … [Read more...]
Please state the nature of your bedbug emergency. The city’s 911 call center in the Bronx has been crawling with bedbugs for the past two weeks, and the NYPD won’t pull out its personnel to fumigate, several 911 operators told the Daily News. Emergency call operators first … [Read more...]
We regret to pass on that Frederick County (Maryland) Fire and Rescue and the Libertytown Volunteer Fire Company are mourning the unexpected passing of valued member, Michael Powers, earlier this afternoon. Firefighter Powers, 70, a lifelong member and active volunteer from … [Read more...]
Ever approach a scene and be unable to see the scene because of wayyy too many warning lights being used at "hi intensity" all at the same time? Of course you have. Some fire apparatus operators shut many of their lights off. Some leave all lights on and then add floodlights, … [Read more...]