Ohio Firefighters Discuss Vacant Home Hazards
Firefighters in Ohio’s largest city are talking with development officials about finding a way to designate vacant homes to make responders aware of potential hazards during emergencies at those...
View ArticleArbitrator Reduces Portland Fireboat Punishments
An arbitrator has ordered the city of Portland to pay more than $1,100 in back wages to two firefighters who were punished after damaging the city’s $3.2 million fireboat. The Maine city revealed the...
View ArticleIllinois Fire Departments Receive $300,000 in Federal Grants
Six fire departments across Illinois will split nearly $300,000 in federal grants aimed at improving response to fires and other emergencies. U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin announced the grants from the Federal...
View ArticleFirefighters’ Workers’ Comp Insurance is Taxing Pennsylvania Municipalities
Firefighters have a dangerous job. They run into burning buildings in the midst of panic and chaos, wade through thick smoke in search of life and keep precious mementos from turning to ash. That’s why...
View ArticleMichigan DNR, Hamburg Fire Crews Team up to Train
An injured hunter who “fell” down a 150-foot ravine and a mushroom hunter who went “missing” in the Brighton Recreation Area had to be rescued recently by firefighters and park rangers. Those were the...
View ArticleIndiana Firefighter Explores Fire Chemistry
Smoke, flames, ash. A fire engine with lights and siren blaring, and uniformed officers yelling orders as a building blazes nearby. When he arrives on-scene of a fire, Josh Scalf, a 10-year veteran of...
View ArticleFirefighters From Around the Globe Compete for Title in Alabama
Firefighters around the world have sworn to protect and save lives, but this week the Montgomery Fire Department, will also be trying to protect its title from the best firefighters in the world who...
View ArticleFire Departments Struggle to Attract Volunteers
alk to anyone at a fire department that depends on volunteers, and you’re likely to hear that it’s harder to get and keep new ones. And the ones already manning the stations aren’t getting any younger....
View ArticleBulldozer Drivers Face Fire Ddangers
Not all firefighters carry a hose or shovel. The adrenaline junkies who steer heavy bulldozers across steep ridges face serious hazards, from smoke and flames but also from unsteady dirt and steep...
View ArticleDrones Help Fight Fires After Dark
Kale Casey almost can’t believe what a metal bird 5 feet long, weighing 44 pounds with wings spanning 10 feet, can do to help fight a wildfire. “For eight hours a night, without getting tired, without...
View ArticleChemical Fire Timeline Abandoned as Plume Towers Over Houston
As a towering plume of black smoke billowed a mile above Houston for a third day, local officials said they don’t know how long the petrochemical blaze that sent orange fireballs into the sky will...
View ArticleFiery Houston-Area Tank Farm One of Scores Dotting Gulf Coast
A fire at a Houston-area petroleum and chemical storage complex darkened the skyline this week. Thick plumes of black smoke and the release of chemicals led to the shutdown of schools, businesses and...
View ArticleFirefighters at Houston Chemical Disaster Scrambled for Foam
Firefighters confronted with the worst Gulf Coast industrial disaster in 14 years had to call on outside sources to augment their supply of the special foam required to extinguish chemical blazes....
View ArticleCoffee Shop Owner was Told to Leave Before Blast
About the photo: Charred remains are piled in a heap of rubble on Thursday in Durham, N.C., the day after an explosion and building fire caused by a gas leak killed one person and injured more than two...
View ArticleThree Thought Dead After Silicon Plant Explosion in Illinois
AUKEGAN, Ill.–Three people missing after an overnight explosion and fire at an Illinois silicone plant are believed dead, authorities said Saturday. Waukegan Fire Marshal Steven Lenzi said crews...
View Article‘Miracle’: Plane Crashes into Florida River, but No Deaths
A charter plane carrying 143 people from the U.S. military base in Cuba to north Florida ended up in a river off the end of a runway Friday night, and while some passengers were hospitalized, no...
View ArticleCrime App Citizen Draws 1 Million New Yorkers and Some Controversy
One afternoon in late October 2017, hundreds of students from the elite Avenues private school in Manhattan were loaded onto buses, ready to head home. Suddenly, school principal Abby Brody got a...
View ArticleBurnout in Firefighters Linked to Sleep Issues, Mental Health Concerns
Firefighters who feel burned out often experience sleep issues, which also increases their risk of emotional fatigue, exhaustion and health problems, researchers say. Nearly half of U.S. firefighters...
View Article‘Like the World was Ending’: Shopping Plaza Blast Injures 21
PLANTATION, Fla. — A vacant pizza restaurant exploded Saturday in a thundering roar at a South Florida shopping plaza, injuring more than 20 people as large chunks of concrete flew through the air. The...
View ArticleHawaii’s Maui Island Wildfire Forces Evacuations
Thousands of residents and visitors on Hawaii’s Maui Island were ordered to evacuate two communities on Thursday as a spreading wildfire sent smoke billowing high into the sky, officials and local...
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