A Facebook-posted video that appears to be from Central or South America shows the driver of an 18-wheeler barrel between a burning truck and a fire apparatus on a four-lane highway. A Facebook page dedicated to firefighter humor named Humor Bomberil last week posted the … [Read more...]
In Michigan, a 15-year-old girl died last night around 2315 hours, in a crash involving a fire apparatus on I-94 in Ypsilanti. A Ypsilanti Fire Department apparatus was operating at an earlier rollover accident when a Ford Escape slammed into the back of the fire truck. The … [Read more...]
We regret to pass on that the Phoenix Fire Department is mourning the loss of Captain Crystal Rezzonico. She died last evening at the age of 56 after a courageous eight-year battle that resulted from injuries she suffered after a tragic line of duty responding crash in … [Read more...]
A Firefighter with the Southeastern Randolph Fire Protection District was seriously injured in a crash on Business Highway 63 while heading to a fire this afternoon. Kenneth McCune, 57, was driving eastbound when he went off the side of the road, hit a culvert and the firetruck … [Read more...]
An extreme close call (as in thankfully no one was seriously hurt but apparatus was majorly damaged) in Seattle (Washington) this morning when a responding Seattle engine company and a ladder company crashed into each other sending 8 members to the hospital. The companies were … [Read more...]
Six diesel ambulances with systemic exhaust problems have sickened Sacramento firefighters enough to send them to local emergency rooms as patients, the firefighters union and city said Friday. The city of Sacramento has removed those ambulances from the firefighting fleet and … [Read more...]
A 19-year-old woman was killed last night after a crash involving fire apparatus on an icy road in Nova Scotia, Canada last night. The crash between her Chevrolet Malibu and the responding fire apparatus happened when roads were icy-and one of the vehicles crossed the center line … [Read more...]