Firefighter Close Calls | Firefighter Close Calls is the home of the Secret List. The worlds most visited website focused exclusively on firefighter survival

Home of the Secret List

Helicopter Almost Lands on Firefighters Setting Up LZ

 FireCompanies    December 12, 2009    No Comments

On November 8, 2009 at about 0200 hrs we got a call to set up a LZ for a helicopter who was carrying a man who had been lost on a near by mountain. As we were setting up the LZ we heard the helo circle and then start to land before we were set up. The Chief and Assistant Chief … [Read more...]

 News, RESCUE/EMS

Man pulls gun from waste belt of pants after accident

 FireCompanies    August 30, 2009    No Comments

 Our engine and ambulance arrived on scene of a single overturned vehicle and the female EMT was attending to the lone male patient. He said he was not injured and did not wish to be treated. A smell of alcohol was noticed. The Sheriff's office arrived and began a sobriety … [Read more...]

 News, RESCUE/EMS

Firefighter Struck By Tree Branch at Accident Scene

 FireCompanies    June 21, 2009    No Comments

Our Rescue responded to a single vehicle MVA into a tree with multiple entrapments. While the Rescue is doing walk around car to check for hazards and injuries a FF stands on driver’s side of car and a loose tree branch swings and hits him in the back, driving him into the … [Read more...]

 News, RESCUE/EMS

CO Detector Alerts EMS Crew to Problem

 FireCompanies    May 25, 2009    No Comments

On Saturday May 2, 2009 Milton Fire-Rescue, Milton Police, and Frisbie Memorial Hospital EMS responded to a 911 dispatch of a male, unconscious and not breathing. Upon arrival, the 40 year old male was found deceased in a basement bedroom of his home. Family members indicated … [Read more...]

 News, RESCUE/EMS

Make Sure You Cut the Correct Battery Cable!

 FireCompanies    May 20, 2009    No Comments

In an attempt to secure the battery of a vehicle involved in an MVA, we cut the positive cable. While moving the two ends of the cable away from each other the battery shorted out and exploded. This sprayed battery acid all over the upper body of my firefighter and the left side … [Read more...]

 News, RESCUE/EMS

Chesapeake firefighter pinned when car rolls off tow truck

 FireCompanies    February 22, 2009    No Comments

A firefighter was rushed to a local hospital Friday evening, after a car rolled off a tow truck and pinned him against a house.The incident happened around 8:30 p.m. in the 1500 block of Atlantic Avenue, in the South Norfolk section. Fire crews originally responded to a call for … [Read more...]

 News, RESCUE/EMS

Diffucult Auto Extrication

 FireCompanies    February 21, 2009    No Comments

This accident occured in the City of Atlanta taken by Grady EMS Captain. Dr. Jeff Salomone (Grady Trauma Surgery) & Dr. Dan Wu (Grady Emergency Medicine, front of picture) on scene with Atlanta Fire Rescue and Grady EMS.Pt underwent a long and careful … [Read more...]

 News, RESCUE/EMS

  • « Previous Page
  • 1
  • …
  • 78
  • 79
  • 80
  • 81
  • 82
  • …
  • 89
  • Next Page »
==
FIREFIGHTER
CANCER
==
PROSTATE & RELATED
CANCERS
INFORMATION:

also check the most current issue of the secret list

Click Here

Sign Up for Secret List

For Email Newsletters you can trust.

Please Visit
Our Sponsor

GordonGraham.com


YOU NEED THIS BOOK!
(Trust Us)

400+ PAGES.
90+ CONTRIBUTORS!
100% of the royalties from the sales of "PASS IT ON" will be donated to the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation and the Chief Ray Downey Scholarship Fund.
CLICK ABOVE TO ORDER YOUR COPIES TODAY!


 

Pass It On: The Second Alarm

BillyG-book-170


 

Posters

Click to Print

In Memory Of

fdnyClick this patch

helmet

ragusa

Click Here for The 9/11 Widows’ and Victims’ Families Association

ssc

Click Here: Skyscraper Safety Campaign

  • Home
  • About Us
  • Apparatus
    • Crashes
    • Struck By
  • Close Calls
  • Contact Us
  • Drills
  • FF Cardiac Health
  • FIRE & EMS CIVIL DISORDER
  • EMS Close Calls
  • Fire Communications
  • Firefighter Cancer
  • Firefighter History
  • Firefighter Staffing
  • Gallery
  • LODD Calendar
  • Modern Fire Behavior
  • NIOSH Lessons Learned
  • NIOSH LODD Reports
  • Pass It On
  • Behaviorial Health
    • Behaviorial Health Resources
    • Behaviorial Health Information
  • Safety and Survival
  • Secret List
  • SOG’s
Submit Your
CLOSE CALLS /
NEAR MISS

 

LODD STATS

YearTotals
202319
2022101
2021139
202096
201957
201885
201793
201689
201586
201494
2013101
201283
201181
201087
200993
2008118
2007118
Tweets by @alertpage

Search Site

Contact Info

Email BillyG
[email protected]

Email Weekly Drill
Suggestions to

[email protected]


Copyright © 2003-2023

Copyright Disclaimer: This non-commercial, non-profit and free use website is for the exclusive purpose of firefighter safety, health and survival. All photographs in these posts are either submitted or from aggregate Google and are used in the postings for the purposes of education, satire, and parody, criticism, news reporting, research, and scholarship consistent with 17 USC §107 and never due to intentional or malicious misuse of a copyright.