Wednesday, May 16, 2012
A 70-foot Sutphen Elevated Platform suddenly retracted approximately
5-10-feet while operating in a Platform Operations class on Tuesday.
Frayed steel cables were seen hanging from under the boom, and a pulley was thrown from its housin... [ more ]
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Buffalo News Photo
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
A Buffalo fire truck responding to a fire collided with a civilian vehicle and overturned on South Elmwood Avenue at Chippewa Street this morning. The driver of the fire truck was taken to a local hospital, but authorities said they believe he was... [ more ]
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Tuesday, May 15, 2012
According to local media, jurors in Longview (Texas) found the maker of a
ladder truck from which two firefighters fatally fell — and the Kilgore
Fire Department — equally at fault for the 2009 training exercise
deaths.
Wrapping up an ei... [ more ]
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Tuesday, May 15, 2012
A windswept, driving rain fell in the early morning hours of a May 15, 1937, as four city firefighters riding on a fire truck returned to headquarters.
They had just finished battling a three-alarm blaze on Downs Street that had lit the... [ more ]
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Local 12 Photo
Monday, May 14, 2012
A fire truck collides with a car on the way to an accident in Mt. Airy.
The crash forced officials to shutdown Colerain Avenue near Tranquility Lane , just after 5 p.m. Sunday.
Area roads from Raeburn to West Fork Avenue were... [ more ]
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Monday, May 14, 2012
EVR recently completed two days of training with the Edwards AFB Fire Department on their P-24 Pierce pumpers. The training consisted of both classroom and hands on training to work with their 2009 Pierce 4x4 1250 gpm pumpers. EVR was able to tes... [ more ]
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Lindsey Theis Photo
Sunday, May 13, 2012
Traffic on Highway 501 southbound is slowly moving again after a
wreck involving a Fair Bluff water tanker shut it down, according to
Horry County Public Information Officer Lisa Bourcier.
Two 18
wheeler tow-trucks are working to rem... [ more ]
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Friday, May 11, 2012
Ladder Belts, SOP's and The Death of Two
Firefighters
Any LESSONS LEARNED here for all of us? Apparatus
Manufacturers? Apparatus Dealers?
Kilgore Firefighters guiding the hands-on drills for their
n... [ more ]
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IFD Photo
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
A woman and her 3-year-old daughter suffered minor injuries today when their Chevrolet Impala collided with an Indianapolis Fire Department ladder truck on an emergency run, the fire department said in a news release.
Tracy Carter, 26, ... [ more ]
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Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Baltimore's spending board approved Wednesday three settlements totaling $340,000 in claims made against the city, including a civil suit stemming from a 2007 accident in which a fire truck collided with a car, leaving three people dead.
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