Two FF's in Spotsylvania County were charged yesterday after an early morning apparatus crash sent them to the hospital with injuries. ...the firefighters were responding to a house fire. The truck crossed the road's double yellow line and crashed into an … [Read more...]
Alex Wilson said his fellow firefighters with the Eureka Volunteer Fire Company in Stewartstown tend to think of fundraising man hours in terms of "pit beef sales." They figure it's about eight hours of work for six to eight people - preparing and serving pit beef … [Read more...]
On Jan. 17, 2001, police responded to a domestic dispute involving a man in camouflage gear waving a semiautomatic pistol. As two officers approached the Caln Township residence, a shot was fired "in such a manner as to place individuals in danger," court records … [Read more...]
Senators Tom Carper (D-Delaware) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) recentlyintroduced legislation aimed at strengthening the disability protections forthousands of federal firefighters nationwide. Under current law, the federalgovernment does not presume that certain illnesses … [Read more...]
Three out of four paramedic, EMT and firefighter recruits in the Boston area are overweight, a troubling trend that shows the obesity epidemic is weighing down even young recruits, according to a new study out today.Researchers reviewed pre-placement medical exams for 370 … [Read more...]
An 85-year-old French man who is hard of hearing mistook a 32 year old French Firefighter for a burglar and shot him to death in the southern French city of Belley yesterday. Neighbors had called the fire department because they were worried about the health of the … [Read more...]
H. Robert Superko, MD, principal investigator in the landmark FEMA-sponsored study of firefighters aged 40 and over conducted at Saint Joseph's Hospital in Atlanta, released preliminary findings in the world's first study of first responders at risk of suffering sudden death or … [Read more...]