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Fire vs. police: Recruits compete in your Nation’s Capital.
Police and fire recruits meet at the DC Fire & EMS Department training academy.
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*Snerk*
Found this via reader Robert J. Wilson, by way of Chocolate Cake City.
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I larfed and larfed...
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Beer on the Beach Tip
WITH THE WEEKEND MIGRATIONS TO THE BEACH beginning soon, there will be the usual annual angst over how to keep the beer cold all day when you're on the hot sand under the sun's searing rays.
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Truck Fire in Hartford Tunnel
Within moments there was a trailer on fire in the tunnel and fire shooting out of sewer manholes all along the interchange.
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Life, Death and Everything In Between
“Suction,” I say calmly. “Press harder, too. More to the left. No, your left. His right.”
Obligingly, my partner applies more pressure to the teenager’s thyroid cartilage with one hand while wielding the suction catheter with the other. The …
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House Fire Fails to Hide Heated Hockey Homicide
WHEN THURSDAY NIGHT'S PLAYOFF GAME between the Pittsburgh Penguins and the Ottawa Senators went into the 3rd sudden-death overtime period, an Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, couple went into a sudden-death overtime of their own.
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California Hydrant Thief Nabbed
He had the look. The man wore an orange vest, drove around in a white pickup truck with cones in the back and carried a foot-long "key" for the purpose at hand.
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Morning Lineup – April 24
Sometimes I wonder if the world is heading for a "Digital Big Bang."
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Burnt Food in Ontario
A FIRE IN THE UNIVERSITY TOWN OF WATERLOO, ONTARIO, destroyed six restaurants and damaged several other businesses ...
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Watch FDIC keynote speech: ‘It’s time to take back the fire service’ – Lt. Frank Ricci, New Haven Fire Department.
Lt. Ricci covers a lot of ground in Thursday's keynote address.
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Will there be Blogger Babes at the Meet-Up?
Will there be Blogger Babes at the FDIC meetup tonight? Come to the Rock Bottom Brewery and find out!
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Indianapolis Fire Show
THE FDIC WASN'T THE ONLY FIRE SHOW in Indianapolis, Indiana, Friday morning. A suspcious fire destroyed a 24-unit apartment building that was vacant.
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High-rise fire in St. Louis. Third-alarm at gas company’s executive offices.
Fire was on the 15th floor of a 31-story downtown St. Louis building.
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RaisingLadders Photography on Facebook, Indy, and a few other items.
I've finally put together a Facebook page for the photography business; with the increasing functionality of FB's pages for services/businesses, it's almost like you don't need a home website anymore (don't worry, I won't be discarding RLP.com—I'm …
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Nothing Left
Eventually life on the streets loses its allure and the cold, stark reality of loneliness, sickness and a wasted life takes hold. The magic elixir, alcohol, loses its ability to transform the landscape from dreary and lifeless, full of unsavory charact…
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Alaskan Automatic Alarm Dog
This image from Trooper Shanigan's dash cam shows Buddy leading him through the maze of forest roads to the house on fire.
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Around the Fire Web
It gives an excellent response to their premise and points out what he believes to be the far bigger problem to volunteer recruiting these days.
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Weekend Caption Contest
We have no idea what this firefighter is looking for, do you?
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Embattled Australian Fire Chief Resigns
Chief Rees was in charge of the CFA in February 2009 when the infamous brush fires roared through large swaths of the state killing 173 people and culminating with what is now called "Black Saturday."
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FDIC Visit to Brownsburg Fire Department
We then got the tour of the engine on Main Street and what a great place. As you can see from the pictures of the kitchen table, they have made it their home in true firefighter fashion.
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Drunken Ambulance Crasher Arrested
A MAN WHO CRASHED INTO A VINELAND, NEW JERSEY, ambulance Wednesday morning and left the scene was arrested yesterday.
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Court Dismisses Suit by Black New Haven Firefighter Alleging Disparate Impact
Shortly after the historic US Supreme Court Decision in Ricci v. DeStefano, ruled that the City of New Haven had committed reverse discrimination by rejecting the results of the 2003 promotional examinations, Firefighter Michael Briscoe filed suit agains…
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Firefighter Netcast at FDIC