A man from Patten (Maine) is facing charges Tuesday after threatening to shoot a Firefighter. 49-year-old Fred Whitney called the Patten Town Office a little after 10:00 a.m. saying Firefighter allegedly cut him off and threatening to shoot that Firefighter. Whitney later called … [Read more...]
We regret to pass on that a California Firefighter has died in the Line of Duty after suffering a medical emergency while working on the Stagecoach Fire (Kern County, CA) command post. Big Pine FD (Big Pine is far west of San Jose, near the Nevada border) Fire Engineer Pete … [Read more...]
"We had the unfortunate circumstance several shifts back of being unable to secure an elevator with the FD keys for a code blue. There was a key in the box, but it could not be turned to activate Phase 1 in the elevator. We returned to to hotel last shift, ironically catching a … [Read more...]
While not a Firefighter "close call"-it could easily be a situation where the fire recruits-and the other Firefighters-are set up for a close call-or worse. A whistleblower lawsuit filed Monday accused the St. Paul Fire Chief (Minnesota) and Assistant Chief of favoritism and then … [Read more...]
A tractor-trailer crashed into THREE FIRE APPARATUS along Interstate 85 in Rowan County (North Carolina) this morning. The wreck happened on I-85 southbound near the Yadkin River Bridge, mile marker 82. A tractor-trailer struck three Millers Ferry fire trucks that were operating … [Read more...]
LONDON, ONT. -- Almost a year after a devastating explosion destroyed five houses on Woodman Avenue, some of the firefighters who experienced the blast want Londoners to know what happened behind the barricades. On Aug. 14, 2019 London firefighters found themselves in a … [Read more...]
We regret to pass on to you that Hawaii County Fire Department Fire Equipment Operator Eric Hayashi died in the Line of Duty last night at Hilo Medical Center. FEO Hayashi was on-duty, on the scene of an emergency call, when he experienced a critical medical emergency. Our … [Read more...]
Maryland's Montgomery County Fire Rescue CO. 8 Firefighters in Gaithersburg were awakened to the sounds of gunshots IAO an adjacent lot to the rear of their quarters this weekend. Police arrived and found 1 adult gunshot victim who was transported with serious life threatening … [Read more...]
About five minutes before 6pm (15:00 GMT) on Tuesday, Beirut's fire brigade received a call from the police, who told them that witnesses had spotted smoke billowing out of the city's port. First Fire Lieutenant Raymond Farah was the one to receive the call. "I told them that … [Read more...]
Four firefighters were overcome by fumes after stumbling onto a drug mill operating in the basement of a Paterson home. The firefighters were responding to a small fire in the basement of the Illinois Avenue home when they were overcome just before 1:30 a.m.Thursday. They … [Read more...]
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