Three Firefighters were injured while operating at a house fire Saturday evening in Bedford County, Virginia (near Roanoke). A mayday was transmitted over the radio around 1815 hours after multiple agencies responded to a house fire on Joppa Mill Road. First arriving companies … [Read more...]
You'll remember last June when the Atlanta Fire Rescue Department, and specifically the suspension of Captain Danny Dwyer, made national headlines. Apparently, instead of waiting for his two truck crew members to finish gearing up, Captain Dwyer crawled inside with 2 … [Read more...]
We regret to pass on that 2 Senior Firefighters from the Samoan Fire Bureau Division (Pacific Island) were killed and two other firefighters were seriously injured in the Line of Duty when the fire truck (commercial cab) crashed at a sharp curb on the road from Afono heading down … [Read more...]
PLEASE WATCH THIS 2 MIN. VIDEO FROM IAFC PRES CHIEF GARY LUDWIG: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHbjYHqVDfU HERE IS THE ACTION LINK: https://www.votervoice.net/iframes/IAFC/Campaigns/73874/Respond THE "ACTION" LINK pushes your support of significant COVID-19 funding … [Read more...]
To rapidly communicate short reports of innovative responses to Covid-19 around the world, along with a range of current thinking on policy and strategy relevant to the pandemic, the New England Journal of Medicine has initiated the Covid-19 Notes series.... As a chief … [Read more...]
On Thursday of this week, the Middle Island FD (Suffolk County, Long Island, NY) responded mutual aid to Brookhaven National Laboratory FD for a large brush fire. MIFD responded with a full crew on their brush truck. While the crew was operating in the woods, there was an … [Read more...]
By Joe Werkmeister, Suffolk Times: Steve Brickman of Jamesport, a retired FDNY firefighter who spent nearly two weeks at ground zero following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, died Sunday of illness attributed to 9/11, according to the FDNY. He was 57. In 2013, Mr. Brickman … [Read more...]
The IAFC is renewing their urgent request for all fire departments to complete the IAFC COVID-19 PPE Readiness & Availability Assessment Survey by Monday, April 20. Earlier this week, IAFC President Gary Ludwig asked (letter link below) Congress and the administration for … [Read more...]
One person was killed and a Firefighter was injured following an explosion during a house fire in Pelzer, South Carolina last night. Multiple fire departments were called to a house fire on Parker Street at about 11 p.m. During the fire, an explosion blew out the front wall of … [Read more...]
A second member of the Chicago Fire Department has died from the coronavirus, the department announced today, April 15, 2020. Firefighter Edward Singleton, 55, died Tuesday night from complications of the virus. Firefighter Singleton worked at the firehouse at Midway Airport, and … [Read more...]
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