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Must see video: Police officer beats & arrests man who won’t turn off his camera. An important lesson.
This case illustrates many of the points that have been made about the rights of people with cameras shooting in public places.
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FireTruckBlog.com: Looking back 137 years & getting the attention of those who ignore you on the roads.
The latest fire apparatus news from FireTruckBlog.com.
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Happy Easter from Ironfiremen.com
What a BEAUTIFUL Easter morning here in Va.
I can imagine the excitement in everyone's home as your "little ones" wake up to find what the Easter Bunny has left behind.
Brand new Easter outfits and the anticipation leading up to this afternoon's Ea…
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A Sunday Emergency !
Paramedic Gage's efforts to become a rodeo star pay off in a surprising way.
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2-Alarm Apartment Fire in Illinois
A 2-ALARM FIRE IN A BERWYN, ILLINOIS, apartment building Saturday evening heavily damaged all 14 units and caused one firefighter injury.
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Kicker
"Rescue 1, Respond to 566 Potter's Avenuee for a twenty year old male with leg pain."
We arrived a short time later.
"What's wrong?" I asked.
"My leg hurts, he answered."
"What happened?" I asked.
"I took some vitamins and them my leg started kick…
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Prison Fire Brigade Makes Water Rescue
THE SAN QUENTIN, CALIFORNIA, PRISON fire brigade was called out early Wednesday morning around 1 am when a guard heard cries for help coming from offshore.
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Raw video: Police to the rescue. Cop saves woman in Modesto, California & attempts to put out fire.
Officer grabs garden hose after grabbing woman.
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Hydroplane Close Call
Test Run Ends in Flames
HYDROPLANE RACING SEASON IS just about to begin and a now-regular spring testing session for the West Coast boats was held on Lake Washington in Seattle this week. The activities were punctuated by a fire on one of the Un…
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Albuquerque Fire Department; Learnings from Close Call Collapse and Fire Fighter Injuries
The Albuquerque Fire Department seeks to improve operations from past performance
Four firefighters with the Albuquerque (NM) Fire Department were injured during operations at a three-alarm fire that injured raged through the Royal Crown Apartment…
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Antique of the Week: 1874 Clapp & Jones Steam Fire Engine
The person who posted the video says the apparatus is from Woodland, California.
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Morning Lineup – April 24
Before we start looking for the rest of the eggs, we'd better get the equipment checked out.
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The Company Officer: Going for it and Belief
As a Company Officer, at some point in your career, you will come to that one pivotal point, when the clarity of a situation becomes all so apparent and clear.
Sometime you just have to believe and have the resilience, fortitude and that deep in the…
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Where Goes the Second Line?
However, sometimes the bigger issue becomes where to take the second line? What apparatus does it come from and what size should it be? What about the length?
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Raw video & radio traffic: Tornado hits airport & other areas around St. Louis, Missouri.
St. Louis Airport heavily damaged by apparent tornado.
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Through the Lock – The Sunilla Tool
The Sunilla tool is one of the oldest through the lock tools. Like many fire service tools, this tool was invented by modifying another tool.
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Early Video: Firefighters Battle Church Fire in Keokuk, Iowa
Here is some prearrival video that shows Keokuk, Iowa firefighters pulling up to a fire at the Apostolic Faith United Pentecostal Church located on Boulevard Road.
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Strip Mall Fire Claims Two Religious Centers
AN EARLY-MORNING FIRE SATURDAY in Stockton, California, destroyed part of a strip mall shopping center with the heaviest damage to a real estate office and a mosque next to it.
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The Best Damn Department In The Fire Service
Everybody got they're cup of regulah? Everyone comfortable? Good.
So I'm sitting on the tailboard the other shift with the rest of my crew and we're talking about general happenings and scuttlebutt around the department. Soon the c…
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Job Openings
By the end of the day on Wednesday, April 27, Southwest Ambulance hopes it will have offered full-time jobs with excellent benefits to fifty certified Paramedics and EMTs plus Billing & Collections staff.
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Early video: House fire in New Castle County, Delaware.
Fire on Friday in Chelsea Estates.
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More ‘Bunkroom Articles’ From FDLiveIn.com
Latest in managing a live-in program recognizes morale and a least likely place to gauge it.
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Firefighter’s First Amendment Rights Extends to Emails… Even Ones With False Statements
On Thursday, the Indiana Supreme Court handed down a decision in the email discipline case of firefighter Bradley Love of the Sugar Creek Township Fire Department. Love was a volunteer/part-time firefighter in the combination fire department.
The case…
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Vodka
Traces or red fills the western sky as sunset looms. Travelers throughout the city of Providence, Nomads really, the wanderlust in their blood, along with other, man made things, begin to drop. On the waterfront, near the courthouse, the homeless shelter…
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Talk About A Close Call!
For the love of all that is holy, one of my Nashville readers please tell me that Tuesday night traffic around Bridgestone Arena is just one big parking lot, and that a ground ambulance would have taken, like, a half hour to make the trip.
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