16 hours 41 minutes ago
Responded mutual aid to a structure fire with entrapment. First-arriving personnel made entry, located the victim, and were able to remove her. Lieutenant Langford and another firefighter were ordered to enter the basement via the inside staircase while making a fire attack. Lieutenant Langford descended the stairs, sounding them with his foot until he hit […]
Brian Kazmierzak
16 hours 44 minutes ago
WEST CHESTER TOWNSHIP, Ohio — West Chester Township officials say that a crash occurred Saturday morning involving one of the township’s fire engines and a semi-truck. It occurred around 6:15 a.m. at Union Centre Boulevard and Beckett Road. Two of the occupants of the semi-truck were transported to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. Meanwhile, three […]
Brian Kazmierzak
17 hours 59 minutes ago
SANDYVILLE, W.Va. (WTAP) – A fire truck ended up on its side after a rollover crash in Jackson Co. Thursday morning. Deputy Chief of Silverton Volunteer Fire Department, Steve Osborne, says that the Silverton VFD responded to a call about a structure fire Thursday morning. As the Ravenswood VFD was responding to help Silverton with […]
Brian Kazmierzak
18 hours 1 minute ago
SPOKANE, Wash. — A Spokane firetruck responding to a morning alarm was involved in an accident when it lost traction while descending a hill in Northwest Spokane, according to the Spokane Fire Department (SFD). At 9:14 a.m., Truck 13 slid into a home on North Greenwood Blvd. near Browne Elementary after losing control at the […]
Brian Kazmierzak
21 hours 20 minutes ago
Jonesboro, AR – (JonesboroRightNow.com) – Feb. 7, 2025 – An ambulance was hit Thursday morning in Jonesboro while transporting a victim from an earlier accident in Bono. According to the Arkansas Motor Vehicle Crash report from the Arkansas State Police, the incident occurred around 6:22 a.m. Jonesboro Police Officer Jonathan Haggans was dispatched to the […]
Chris Shimer
1 day 19 hours ago
According to Schuylkill County dispatchers a crash happened on Route 309 Thursday morning. A transport ambulance was traveling on Rt. 309 when the vehicle experienced a rollover and crashed. Dispatchers say the rollover was reported at around 9:20 a.m. The rollover happened in West Penn Township on Ridge Cup hill on the south side, according […]
Chris Shimer
2 days ago
On Thursday, February 6th, at approximately 11:47 am, Deputies with the Harrison County Sheriff’s Department responded to a single-vehicle accident involving an overturned firetruck on Highway 11 SE near DePauw Church Road in Elizabeth, Indiana. Two firemen were trapped inside the truck. Both were extricated and transported to the hospital with nonlife threatening injuries. Evidence […]
Brian Kazmierzak
2 days 14 hours ago
NEW PORT RICHEY, Fla. – A firefighter on his way to a fatal crash in Pasco County on Wednesday night suffered minor injuries in a vehicle crash. According to the Florida Highway Patrol, a 35-year-old firefighter was traveling southbound on Little Road in a Pasco County firetruck, with lights and sirens on, shortly before 7:30 p.m. on his way […]
Joe Knitter
2 days 14 hours ago
Four firefighters were injured while battling a stubborn fire in Harlem on Wednesday night, it was reported. The four-alarm inferno broke out at about 9:15 p.m. on Feb. 5 at 108 West 138th St., which FDNY Chief of Fire Operations Kevin Woods said had been “vacant for many years.” The first arriving units from Engine Company 59 […]
Joe Knitter
2 days 14 hours ago
Windsor fire officials say one person is dead and a firefighter was injured in an early-morning house fire. Few details are available, but first responders were called at around 6:30 a.m. Wednesday to the home on Askin Avenue off Cabana Road West. The fire took a few hours to extinguish, as crews remained on the […]
Joe Knitter
2 days 14 hours ago
NEZ PERCE COUNTY, Idaho – A firefighter critically injured by a falling tree last August is making strides in his recovery. Justin Shaw was injured while firefighting in the Salmon River Ranger District in Nez Perce County. Following the incident, he was briefly treated in Spokane before being transferred to a Colorado hospital. There, he […]
Joe Knitter
2 days 14 hours ago
DES MOINES, Iowa — Police are responding to multiple crashes across Des Moines Thursday morning due to icy road conditions — including some involving emergency responders who were dispatched to help. Pleasant Drive between 63rd Street and Cummins Parkway was a problem area. The first crash happened just before 7:00 a.m. when a vehicle was […]
Joe Knitter
2 days 21 hours ago
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) — When you see fire trucks, you assume help is on the way, but in this case, they were part of the problem for some Virginia Beach residents. Off Birdneck Road at the Birdneck Village Apartments, some residents park their cars on the side of the streets and in the parking […]
Brian Kazmierzak
2 days 23 hours ago
All, Fire Service Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Symposium….. March 19-21, 2025… in Nashville, Tennessee, for this symposium—a vital event dedicated to addressing mental wellness and suicide prevention in the fire service community. Hosted by the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation (NFFF) and their First Responder Center for Excellence (FRCE), this symposium will […]
Joe Knitter
3 days ago
LAKE KATRINE – A 72-year-old hamlet of Ruby man is in Albany Medical Center after an Empress ambulance slid on ice on Main Street at about 8:40 a.m. on Sunday, February 2 and was struck by the ambulance. Ulster Town Police said Charles Servo, Jr. had attempted to direct the ambulance closer to the scene […]
Chris Shimer
3 days 16 hours ago
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WPTA) – A crash between an ambulance and a car closed part of St. Marys Avenue Tuesday afternoon. The collision occurred near the intersection of St. Marys Avenue and West State Boulevard at about 4:22 p.m. dispatchers say. No one was hurt in the crash. Drivers should avoid the area as it […]
Chris Shimer
3 days 17 hours ago
NEW PHILADELPHIA – No injuries were reported in a crash involving a sport utility vehicle and an ambulance transporting a patient Tuesday afternoon. The New Philadelphia Police Department and the New Philadelphia Fire Department were dispatched to the intersection of Carrie Avenue NW and Third Street NW for the report of a motor vehicle crash […]
Chris Shimer
3 days 19 hours ago
Newswise — A group of South Korean researchers has developed an intelligent fire detection technology that drastically reduces the false alarm incidents, which go off in the absence of a real fire (hereinafter “unwanted alarm”), and is on the verge of commercializing it. This technology is expected to considerably reduce the social cost incurred from […]
Barry Furey
3 days 20 hours ago
At a hearing today (Wednesday), DC 911’s Heather McGaffin is expected to continue ducking and hiding from any serious attempts to provide meaningful oversight of her troubled agency. How does STATter911 know this? Because Office of Unified Communications Director McGaffin made those intentions clear in written responses submitted before the hearing. Answering an annual official […]
Barry Furey
4 days 22 hours ago
JEFFERSON COUNTY, Ala. (WBMA) — Swatting and hoax calls are putting a significant strain on emergency services, sometimes with potentially deadly consequences, and can waste taxpayer dollars. Henry Irby of the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office said, “It’s very frustrating because those resources could’ve been used some place else that really needed those resources.” On January […]
Barry Furey
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