- Wyatt BuchananSaturday, April 9, 2005 The Santa Clara County district attorney has decided not to file criminal charges in the electrocution of a county fire captain who died after touching a downed power line at a house fire in Los Gatos. Investigators from the county Fire … [Read more...]
IT’S OK TO BE GUNG HO….HOWEVER:
my right foot fell beneath the pumper..... I was in the Fire Department for about 1 year and was 18 years old, my company responded to a district call for a dumpster fire. The dumpster was found to be directly adjacent to a taxpayer building so we tried to … [Read more...]
NO CRIMINAL CHARGES IN CALIF. FIREFIGHTER’S DEATH
- Wyatt BuchananSaturday, April 9, 2005 The Santa Clara County district attorney has decided not to file criminal charges in the electrocution of a county fire captain who died after touching a downed power line at a house fire in Los Gatos. Investigators from the county Fire … [Read more...]
REPORT: NO WORKPLACE VIOLATIONS LED TO FIREFIGHTER'S DEATH
Story by The KCRA Channel SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- A new report on the death of a California Department of Forestry firefighter is providing few new details on what went wrong. Eva Schicke, of Arnold, was the first female CDF firefighter to die in the line of duty when her crew was … [Read more...]
REPORT: NO WORKPLACE VIOLATIONS LED TO FIREFIGHTER’S DEATH
Story by The KCRA Channel SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- A new report on the death of a California Department of Forestry firefighter is providing few new details on what went wrong. Eva Schicke, of Arnold, was the first female CDF firefighter to die in the line of duty when her crew was … [Read more...]
EXPECT THE WORST….AND DRIVE DEFENSIVELY!
I was returning from a call alone in an Engine after a structure fire. I was stopped at a stop sign on a two lane farm-to-market road where it intersected a four lane-divided highway. Two cars were approaching from the left, the one in the inside lane about two car lengths … [Read more...]
".....the proper placement of the fire engine, creating the safe work zone saved ten lives that afternoon....." On March 17, 2003 at 1330 hours Engine 4 and Medic 2 were dispatched to a child having a seizure on the Interstate 675 north bound at Indian Ripple Rd. Responding … [Read more...]