"Before I could figure out what was going on I heard the Lt. yelling firefighter down send me an ALS unit" !!!I reached to tighten the coupling and as I touched the wrench to it was struck by a massive hammer blow and a stream of water, and found myself laying in the middle of … [Read more...]
THEY WERE DISPATCHED TO AN “UNKNOWN MEDICAL AND…
"... she reached out and pulled out a pistol..."As most of our responses now are EMS related, I thought I would share an experience with you that confronted my 3 man engine company when we were dispatched to an "unknown medical". It truly reinforced the fact that there is no such … [Read more...]
TWO FIREFIGHTERS NEARLY DROWN-UNOCCUPIED CAR IN WATER
SEPTEMBER 22, 2003 - A creek overflowed its banks Monday and covered a car in the first block of Frogtown Road. Two firefighters nearly drowned while trying to check the car, whichwas emptyA flash flood Monday swept two firefighters into swollen Pequea Creek as they were … [Read more...]
KILLED FIRE CADET'S FAMILY SPEAKS OUT FOR CHANGES IN TRAINING
Sun Sentinal July 25, 2004Just days before a firefighter recruit died during a training exercise, he told his sister he was concerned about how the instructors were treating his class. The recruits had to wear their bunker gear all day, she recalled him saying. The instructors … [Read more...]
By Lisa LeffASSOCIATED PRESS 4:39 p.m. September 21, 2004 SAN FRANCISCO Eva Schicke made it within five feet of the road where two colleagues safely found shelter before she disappeared in the fire that had turned on her seven-member crew 30 seconds after the wind shifted … [Read more...]
FIREFIGHTER DRUNK, OPERATING APPARATUS, IS CHARGED
(Lancaster, NY, July 7, 2004) - A volunteer firefighter in the Village of Lancaster is charged with DWI after crashing his fire truck on the way to a fire call. Police say 34 year old Christopher Long was drunk when he slammed head-on into a pickup truck that had pulled over to … [Read more...]
POSTED: 12:16 pm EST March 23, 2004JACKSONVILLE, FL. -- A firefighter was hurt when the fire truck he was driving to a house fire on the Westside this morning overturned. Terrence Eaton, 38, was taken to Shands-Jacksonville Medical Center with bumps and bruises after the tanker … [Read more...]