Posts Categorized: Current Events
Kraut Caper Keeps Cars Corralled
A SAUERKRAUT TRANSPORT TRUCK was involved in a messy accident Tuesday morning in the German state of Hesse
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Last Surviving Veteran of World War I Passes
THE LAST KNOWN SURVIVING UNIFORMED VETERAN OF WORLD WAR I has passed away in England.
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Car Crash Kills Fire Chief and Injures Assistant Chief in Pennsylvania
THE FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP, PENNSYLVANIA (near Erie) FIRE CHIEF and Assistant Fire Chief were traveling to a training session at 7 pm Thursday evening when a car coming the opposite direction crossed the center of the roadway and struck them head-on.
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Another VFD Officer Goes to Jail
A FORMER SOMERSET COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, VFD president was sentenced Tuesday after admitting that he had stolen $820,000 from his fire company.
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74+ Dead in Self-Inflicted Mass Casualty Incident
AT LEAST 74 PEOPLE WERE KILLED and hundreds more injured when a riot broke out at a soccer game in Port Said, Egypt, Wednesday night
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A HOUSTON, TEXAS, FIRE CAPTAIN HAS RESIGNED following his arrest and incarceration for possessing child pornography and "inappropriate online contact" with an underage girl.
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Deputy VFD Chief Ambushed, Shot in Pennsylvania
A VOLUNTEER FIRE OFFICER, GLEN RUSSELL, 43, of Pottstown, Pennsylvania, was getting out of his car Tuesday afternoon when he was suddenly ambushed by a masked man carrying a shotgun who fired on Russell.
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St. Louis Firefighters Go To Court To Get Their Children Into School
THE ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, FIREFIGHTERS are in a jam thanks to the city's oppressive residency requirements.
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Bonnie’s Tommy Gun Brings $130 Grand
TWO GUNS LEFT BEHIND BY BONNIE & CLYDE when a police raid on their Joplin, Missouri apartment caused them to flee, were sold at a Kansas City auction house Saturday for $210,000.
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Borough Council Seizes VFD Assets, Halts Operations
THE ATLANTIC COUNTY, NEW JERSEY, Borough of Folsom seized the firehouse and property of the Folsom VFD early Thursday morning.
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LODD – Germany
A PAID-ON-CALL FIREFIGHTER IN UPAHL, Germany, died early Satuday morning from a vehicle collision while responding to his firehouse.
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The News Ticker
Some Additional Items Carried Over From the News Ticker.
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LODD – Italy
Vehicle Accident Inside Firehouse
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LODD – South Carolina
DAVID CRENSHAW, A LONG-TIME VOLUNTEER firefighter and former fire chief died suddenly Monday morning at the scene of an auto wreck in Anderson County, South Carolina.
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Family Dispute Shoot-Out Leaves Florida Fire Lieutenant in Critical Condition.
MARTIN COUNTY, FLORIDA, FIRE LIEUTENANT John Richardson, Jr., is hospitalized in critical condition and fighting for his life after being shot by his brother-in-law during a domestic dispute Sunday afternoon.
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Pileups Keep On Piling Up
MORE THAN 50 VEHICLES WERE INVOLVED in a traffic pileup in southeastern Texas Thursday morning.
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Pontiac, Michigan, Chooses to Eliminate Entire Fire Department
On Wednesday the firefighters union and the emergency manager, Lou Schimmel, came to a coerced agreement to cancel the firefighters' labor contract leading to the foregone decision to eliminate the entire fire department on February 1
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Sobs for the Saabs
SAAB, THE SWEDISH AUTOMAKER that once told us to "Find Your Own Road," has found its road has taken it to the auto graveyard as they filed their papers for bankruptcy
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Nation’s Smallest Firefighter? Could Be…
VINCE BRASCO, 19, IS SHORT - STANDING 4 FT.- 2 IN. - BUT the Carbon, Pennsylvania, resident is certainly not small.
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Chief's Sudden Resignation Just Ahead of Sudden Drug Charges
SYRACUSE, UTAH, FIRE CHIEF CRAIG COTTRELL stunned the city council Thursday when he resigned his job suddenly citing "health reasons." On the same day, the Davis County A…
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Monarch F.P.D. Update
THREE WEEKS AGO ON NOVEMBER 23, Firegeezer carried the report on the wholesale firing by the Monarch Fire Protection District of their top four chief officers.
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Washougal Standoff Update #2
INVESTIGATORS HAVE RECOVERED THE BODY of the third occupant of the house in Washougal, Washington, that was set afire last Wednesday, December 7.
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But She Kept the Appointment
You Don't Keep a Good Hair Stylist Waiting
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Kentucky Firefighters Fight to Tell the Truth
LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY, FIREFIGHTERS ARE ADAMANT about informing the citizens about the dangers of station "brownouts."
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KayCee City Manager Wants To Lay Off Firefighters, Use Savings To Give Other City Employees Raises