Craig Walker dedicates his life to helping others - and that dedication could have drastically changed his life Friday morning.Walker, 32, the chief of Sugar Hill-Montford Cove Volunteer Fire Department, was one of the two firefighters injured when a wall collapsed during a … [Read more...]
Christmas Eve became frightening and painful for two Manatee emergency workers whose ambulance overturned responding to an emergency call.A Manatee County paramedic and EMT had to be hospitalized with injuries after the crash Monday where U.S. 41 and U.S. Business 41 merge south … [Read more...]
Lone Jack FPD tanker was responding automatic aid to a reported house fire, got cancelled, and while returning the apparatus rolled onto its top. Crew advised dispatch they got out on their own power and are not hurt. All were seat belted in. The inertia caused it to flip once … [Read more...]
IT’S THAT TIME OF THE YEAR FOR MANY FF’S-USE CAUTION!
A Trenton, N.J. Firefighter was transported by ambulance to a hospital after he was hurt at one of two fires that broke out in the city Wednesday night.The injured firefighter, a member of Rescue Co. 1 whose name was not released, was hurt when he slipped on ice at the scene of a … [Read more...]
Six Houston Firefighters are recovering this morning after being hurt battling a blaze in southeast Houston yesterday. Several of them were shocked by an electrical current running through the home. Fire officials say the firefighters are fortunate they were not killed. Flames … [Read more...]
FIRE SERVICE COULD FACE CHARGES IN THE LODD’S OF 4 FIREFIGHTERS
The fire service could be charged with corporate manslaughter over the deaths of four firefighters, police have said. The bodies of Ashley Stephens, 20, John Averis, 27, and Darren Yates-Badley, 24, were found inside the remains of a warehouse in Warwickshire, U.K.Ian Reid, 44, … [Read more...]
The wife of a former Elsmere (NY) Fire Chief who died after responding to an emergency call will receive death benefits that were initially denied because the emergency was deemed routine activity.Kathleen Shea was denied death benefits after her husband, Kevin Shea, died in … [Read more...]
DOJ “STARTING” TO GET IT RE: FIREFIGHTER HEART LODD’S
RENSSELAER, N.Y. -- It took a trip to the nation's capital, but the widow of former Assistant Fire Chief Micheal Falkouski will finally get the death benefits the federal government initially denied her. It was after 5 p.m. Thursday when Susan Falkouski's phone rang. On the line … [Read more...]
UK FIRE TRAGEDY: Q&A
How did the firemen die?The four men, two of them based at Alcester and two at Stratford-upon-Avon, were among the first of the rescue teams to arrive.They entered the plant but a short time later the roof collapsed. One fireman was pulled out and died later in hospital. The … [Read more...]
"This is our worst nightmare," he said. "We know what we do can be dangerous. But we try never to think that any of us will die doing our jobs. I feel terrible, numb. We all do. I can't think what it's like for their families."The fireman's words summed up the shock and despair … [Read more...]