FATAL APPARATUS CRASH DURING HOMECOMING PARADE We regret to pass on that on Friday evening at approximately 1830 hours, in Yellow Medicine County (Minnesota) there was a single-vehicle fire apparatus crash near Lakeview School in Cottonwood. Emergency service personnel arrived at the scene to find a Wood Lake Fire Truck in the ditch on its...Read More
September is recognized as Prostate Cancer Awareness Month, and Awareness Needs Action to make a difference. Personally, in about two weeks, I will have hit my 4-year mark, and remain really well. What I didn’t share with you after I wrote the 2022 article below (because it hadn’t happened yet!) is that 6 months after my...Read More
We regret to pass on that Athens County (OH) EMS Paramedic Monica Perani, age 27, was driving home Sunday after a 24-hour shift when she was in a vehicle crash. She was traveling northwest on State Route 682 in a 2024 Nissan Sentra when her vehicle was struck head-on by a 2016 Ram 1500 pick-up...Read More
Me too! But how I am is besides the point. Dr. Sara Jahnke and her crew are conducting a sleep study and are asking for your feedback. This applies to CAREER and VOLUNTEER firefighters, so please take the survey. Sleep (and shift work) has been a topic of conversation in almost every work group and...Read More
Once again, this is a fundraiser for Tunnels to Towers. They (Ten Three Graphics, owned by two brothers, Firefighters) first created a shirt back in 2020, to honor and remember those who sacrificed and lost their lives on September 11th. They have raised over $10,000.00 and have very proudly donated it to the Tunnel to...Read More
This is a critical request for a used engine following the Line of Duty Death of a young Firefighter on the US/Mexico Border. Their apparatus was destroyed, a Firefighter remains in ICU, and another gave her life. ==WHAT HAPPENED: On the morning of July 31, a rollover crash was reported, where multiple people were injured...Read More
