Sentinel & EnterpriseWednesday, November 03, 2004 LANCASTER, MA — Town residents voted against providing Martin McNamara V’s widow and family with annual death benefits following his death fighting a fire in November 2003. After waiting anxiously for several hours as the town’s votes were counted, family members of fallen Lancaster fire fighter Martin McNamara V...Read More
Former Lancaster firefighter Sean Whitney protested voters decision to deny survivor benefits to a firefighters family. (AP Photo)The Boston GlobeBy Peter Schworm, Globe StaffNovember 9, 2004LANCASTER — Reeling from the bitter aftermath of the town’s vote to deny survivor benefits to the family of a fallen volunteer firefighter, residents, elected officials, and firefighter advocates met...Read More
November 13, 2004LOS ANGELES The rookie Los Angeles firefighter who was crushed by her own fire engine was not killed because of human error or mechanical problems. That’s the finding of a preliminary report into the death of 25-year-old Jaime Foster.The Fire Department report says Foster either fell or jumped off the truck and was...Read More
More than 50 part-time firefighters will be out of work starting Wednesday when stations on Greenwell Avenue and Rapid Run Pike go dark.Cinci. Enquirer 11-19-04DELHI TWP. – Trustees have decided to close two firehouses and cut the township’s firefighting staff in half to save more than $1 million in the wake of two failed property...Read More
by PEPPER BALLARD and JULIE E. GREENESaturday, November 20, 2004WASHINGTON COUNTY – A “paramedic to the bone,” Jeanette Roseberry, an ambulance driver killed while transporting a pregnant woman to a Baltimore hospital Thursday, was remembered by her family as “loving, sensitive,” her grandmother, Shirley Hood, said Friday. The ambulance’s three passengers, one of whom was...Read More
11.23.04From ForbescomThe National Volunteer Fire Council (NVFC) announces that it has received a major donation from the Fireman’s Fund Insurance Company in support of the NVFC’s Heart-Healthy Firefighter program. The $175,000 donation was formally presented at the NVFC’s recent board meeting held in Asheville, North Carolina on October 16, 2004. Accepting the donation on behalf...Read More
