Heated bull semen launched dangerous projectiles in every direction during an early morning inferno that caused firefighters to take cover at an Australian cattle-breeding facility Tuesday. The liquid inside the cylinders was rapidly expanding and essentially the lids of the … [Read more...]
Dimmit County’s fire chief was arrested at an oil well fire for interfering after he allegedly called a mutual aid company to go home. According to television station KEN5, Fire Chief Alonso Carmona responded to the fire with his crew at about 11:30 pm on Wednesday. When he and … [Read more...]
As a College student, FDNY Firefighter Matt Byrne hardly seemed like a candidate for the New York City Fire Department. But he became one of many applicants after the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center, 18 years ago this week. By 2006, he was a nozzleman on the fire hose in … [Read more...]
Christian Johnson, an Assistant Chief with Okanogan County Fire District 3, was hurt while fighting the Spring Coulee Fire south of Okanogan in early September. Chief Johnson was flown to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, where he remains in the intensive care unit in … [Read more...]
Cops are looking for two men who ran off after an armed burglary at a fire station last night in Phoenix. Cops initially reported firefighters saw a man breaking into their fire engine in the fenced station yard. But turns out, it was a fire department employee's truck that was … [Read more...]
It's very cool to see so many small regional fire conferences going on these days. I'm not sure what spurred it, but the more training by those qualified to train-the better. I say that because you wanna make sure those who are doing the instructing are doing what should be … [Read more...]
One year after a Utah firefighter was killed in the Line of Duty in California when a supertanker dropped nearly 20,000 gallons of fire retardant near his position, his widow is suing CAL FIRE and the aircraft company for alleged negligence. Matthew Burchett, a 42-year-old … [Read more...]