The Taipei Times: An inferno ripped through a printed circuit board factory in Taoyuan on Saturday night, killing five firefighters and two Thai workers, and injuring seven firefighters, the Taoyuan Fire Department said yesterday. Fire Department Chief Hu Ying-ta said the … [Read more...]
Two firefighters were killed Wednesday and two were seriously injured when their apparatus was burned at an industrial gas plant fire in Nepal. Firefighters Madhusudan Mishra and Yadavraj Adhikari were killed when a gas cylinder exploded in Super Gas Industry in Patelnagar, … [Read more...]
Five years after an Australian wildland fire shifted directions and overran a firefighting rig, a coroner’s inquest points to several flaws that led to one firefighter’s death. Wendy Bearfoot and three other firefighters were in a rig working a brush fire in October 2012 when … [Read more...]
A massive wildland fire burning in central Portugal has killed 62 civilians and injured 54; four firefighters were among the injured. Portuguese officials say this is the worst tragedy to hit the nation in decades. Seven hundred firefighters have been joined by more than … [Read more...]
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...]