This incident first call came in as an individual with flu symptoms and then a hour later for multible victims.(Scroll down for specific 1st Responder details) ...reminding us of what we are dipatched to may not be what we have on arrival!Carbon monoxide fumes killed a hotel … [Read more...]
The head of the Boston firefighters' union charged today that the city administration is trying to alter an independent report on the deaths of two firefighters in late August."The City is trying to manipulate the independent report, thus re-victimizing the families who have had … [Read more...]
TENN. VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTER SUES AFTER “RESPONDING” ARREST
A decorated Sevier County firefighter who wound up in handcuffs as he sped to answer a call for help is asking a federal judge to order the Tennessee Highway Patrol to afford volunteer firefighters the same rights as paid emergency workers.Attorney Ronald C. Newcomb has filed on … [Read more...]
ILLINOIS FF’S HURT AT 2ND FIRE @ PREVIOUS FIRE LOCATION- GLASS THRU GLOVE
Two Divernon firefighters were injured Tuesday night while battling a blaze at a property that had been damaged by fire the night before. One firefighter badly injured his hand after some jagged glass from a window fell and went through his glove. The glass sliced an artery and … [Read more...]
3 MASS. FF’S : FIRE OFFICIAL SAYS STAFFING A PROBLEM
(Ed. Note: Staffing is a problem for almost all of us unfortunately-with the 1st alarm the most critical. If your jursidiction won't provide it, for the safety of you FF's, make it automatic mutual aid with your neighbors)Three firefighters were injured battling a blaze that … [Read more...]
INCIDENT DETAILS: While fighting the below decribed fire, SFD Captain Robeson and Firefighter Jennifer Hawker ascended to a higher elevation in the bucket of a ladder truck. When the bucket reached a height that put it near power lines, electricity jumped from those lines to the … [Read more...]
Fire officials say seven firefighters were briefly trapped on the second floor of a burning two-story apartment building before being rescued by a rapid intervention team. The firefighters escaped with minor injuries.Five Points fire company spokesman Tom Mitten says residents of … [Read more...]