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...]
FREDERICTON, Canada - Two firefighters from the Nashwaak Valley FD were injured when their truck overturned while responding to a dwelling fire. The truck skidded into a ditch and rolled several times, scattering equipment and supplies across the road and into a ditch. Both … [Read more...]
‘FAILURES’ CAUSED FIREMAN’S DEATH
A firefighter drowned while trying to rescue a teenage boy from a lake because of "a catalogue of failures" by his brigade, a court has heard. 10-11-04-Sub-Officer Paul Metcalf died as he tried to save student Reyaz Ali from the lake in Holcombe Brook in Bury, Greater Manchester, … [Read more...]
VICTIMS REMOVED? THEN THE RISK CHANGES!
When people are trapped, in trouble or in distress-we often will go out of our way to help save someone who is savable. That's what we do. Once they are saved, or determined to be no longer savable-the RISK WE TAKE changes! Who decides that? Well-the IC ultimately, but WE ALL … [Read more...]
TWO PARAMEDICS HURT IN AMBULANCE TRAINING MISHAP!
Two paramedics were hurt when one of Collier County's (Florida) new ambulances overturned Thursday during a training exercise at the vehicle test track in Golden Gate Estates. The paramedics were taken to Lee Memorial Hospital after the 10:30 a.m. rollover. They were released … [Read more...]