CHICAGO (WLS) -- Two children and a firefighter have been injured in a house fire on Chicago's Far South Side early Wednesday morning. The blaze broke out just after 3:30 a.m. in the 11000-block of South Edbrooke Avenue in Roseland. When firefighters … [Read more...]
A firefighter sustained minor burns in a fire at a duplex in Manchester that displaced five people, according to the Manchester Fire Department. Firefighters responded to a fire at 95 Cedar Street in Manchester on Thursday morning. There was heavy fire on the first floor of … [Read more...]
Highland Park and auto/mutual aid companies responded for the working fire on November 19th, 2022 at 1126 hrs. Upon arrival companies initiated an aggressive interior attack to extinguish the fire on the first floor. While companies were advancing the handline and beginning … [Read more...]
REMEMBERING 12-18-1998: “The Vandalia Avenue Fire” when FDNY’s Ladder 170 Lieut. Joseph P. Cavalieri, 42, FF’s Christopher M. Bopp, 27 & James F. Bohan, 25 died in the Line of Duty. On December 18, 1998, units responded at 0454 hours to a fire on the tenth floor of a … [Read more...]
The 2 New Tripoli Firefighters killed in the Line of Duty at last evenings fire are FF Marvin Gruber, 59, and Assistant Chief Zachary Paris, 36, both who died at that dwelling fire on Clamtown Road in West Penn Township, near Tamaqua, NW of Allentown. Fireground radio traffic … [Read more...]
The latest reports are that 2 Firefighters have died in the Line of Duty. They responded mutual aid to that fire from the nearby New Tripoli Fire Company. Around 1545 this afternoon companies responded to Clamtown Road/Route 443 in West Penn Township, near Tamaqua for that … [Read more...]
Each December, there are some very significant dates for the fire service, worthy of note and well worth kitchen table discussion with Firefighters-especially with the younger ones. While we can't cover them all, below is plenty we can all learn from-and remember them and their … [Read more...]