Posts Categorized: Deutsche Bank
Heavy Discipline For FDNY Officers in D-B Case
SEVEN HIGH-RANKING OFFICERS IN THE NEW YORK CITY Fire Department have been given strong disciplinary sanctions because of their actions leading up to the fatal fire at 130 Liberty Street, the former Deutsche Bank building, in August, 2007.
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Charges May Be Levied In Deutsche Bank Fatal Fire
THE MANHATTAN DISTRICT ATTORNEY has announced that his office is considering placing charges against the City of New York as an entity for the August, 2007, fire in the former Deutsche Bank building that killed two firefighters.
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Angry Woman Burns Out The Neighborhood
A 3-ALARM FIRE IN A DALLAS, TEXAS, APARTMENT COMPLEX on Saturday morning destroyed 12 units and damaged several others.
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About 50 people have been left without a place to live following the blaze …
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California Grass Fires Claims 80 Vacant Homes
TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE NEAR SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA, was the site of an unusual grass fire Saturday. Shortly after 3 pm Pacific time, the fire sprung up and quickly spread to a vacated cluster of base houses that were unoccupied, burning down at least 80…
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Morning Lineup – August 17
Here it is, another Sunday already. It's always so peaceful outside on Sunday mornings. Let's hope it stays that way.
The underlying theme of the fire and rescue events this past week seems to have been "safety." We didn't plan it that way, it's j…
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Schlitz Rises
"The BEER That Made Milwaukee Famous"
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Schlitz beer is back on the shelves, but only for a few minutes. They're being snapped up by anxious customers just as fast as the stores can stock them.
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Heavy Fines For Deutsche Bank Contractors
FINES AND HEADACHES CONTINUE TO PILE UP FOR the contractors who were dismantling the former Deutsche Bank building in Manhattan.
Bovis Lend Lease and its sub-contractor John Gault Corporation were performing the asbestos removal and dismantling of the b…
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Ambulance Mechanics To Become First-Responders
THE WELSH AMBULANCE SERVICE IS INTRODUCING A NEW CONCEPT in preparedness. The mechanics in the fleet maintenance facility in Wrexham will be trained to deliver the First Person on Scene standard (FPoS) First Aid.
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Korean Gov't. Fire Safety Under Fire After Another Fire
SOUTH KOREAN GOVERNMENT WORKERS ARE GETTING CONCERNED about the fire safety in their workplaces.
Shortly after midnight local time this morning, a fire started on the 5th floor of a government complex in downtown Seoul. There were 31 people still at w…
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3 Dead In "Suspicious" Fire
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OLD ORCHARD BEACH, MAINE, FIREFIGHTERS WERE CALLED out at 6:00 pm Wednesday evening for a house fire.
The primary search turned up three bodies which were found before the fire was extinguished. It was put out in about 20 mi…
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Fire Chief Arrested For Embezzlement
TV CHANNEL 10 WIS IN COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA is reporting from Barnwell, S. C., that the state police have arrested the Long Branch VFD fire chief on charges of embezzlement.
They say that from January 2005 through December 2007, Horace G. Delk, Jr. o…
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Morning Lineup – February 21
I have to admit, last night I sneaked-a-peek at the eclipse. Natural phenomenons like that are an irresistable draw for me. I didn't expect to see it because the sky was heavily overcast all day and evening, with a few snow showers thrown in.
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It's Why We Block An Extra Lane
THIS ONBOARD VIDEO FROM THE MESQUITE FIRE DEPT. was taken in July of this year.
It's a little underexposed, but keep watching. The dark vehicle you see just ahead is a fire engine parked at an angle while the crew is working an accident.
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Another Arson In Toronto
Update: Body found in fire building. Scroll down
TORONTO HAS BEEN HIT WITH A LARGE NUMBER OF ARSONS in the past four months. Another one took place early this morning.
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Historic Badge Turns Up 100 Years Later
THE COMPANY HISTORIAN OF NEPTUNE HOSE CO. NO. 1 in Long Branch, New Jersey, has plenty to smile about these days.
The fire company was founded in 1877 and badge #6 was issued to James Bart "Bartie" Flinn who later went on to become the Fire Chief of the…
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Morning Lineup – November 10
The other day I was reading a fire-related website and the author briefly listed all the wonderful things that have been added to the firefighter's toolbox. Things like the large-diameter hose and better-designed apparatus.
But the most spectacular …
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Scoppetta Learns To Tap-Dance
ONE OF THE POLITICAL TRICKS-OF-THE-TRADE is to dance away from difficult questions by answering or talking about something completely different.
FDNY Commissioner Nicholas Scoppetta is using a variation of that two-step to avoid talking about his embarr…
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Think It'll Catch On?
ELIYAHU NIR, INVENTOR FROM ISRAEL, fears that: "Fires in tall buildings regularly claim lives because firemen cannot carry trapped people down ladders fast enough."
Yep, he's sure got that right. So he has come up with what he calls a simple and sen…
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Road Conditions In Wales Causing Pain And Damage to Ambulances
THE CONDITIONS OF THE ROADWAYS IN WALES is so poor that the ambulances are suffering extensive suspension and tire damages. In addition, the rough surfaces cause additional pain to injured patients and longer trip times to the hospital because of slowe…
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VFD ex-Treasurer Guilty Of Theft
IN PASADENA, MARYLAND, THE RIVIERA BEACH VFD has been in a turmoil since the first of the year amid police investigations into allegations of illegal activities.
Yesterday the former treasurer Kelly T. McColl, 41, admitted that he had stolen $50,000 fr…
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Nostalgia For The House Siren
THE 50-YEAR-OLD FIRE SIREN IN UXBRIDGE, Ontario, quit working a month ago and it will cost at least $40,000 to get it fixed. The Fire Chief says that the FD doesn't need it anymore because all the volunteers are alerted by pagers now.
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Morning Lineup – November 8
These days almost all F&R departments enforce a standard, to some degree or another, of physical fitness for its members. For most people this is a welcomed policy because it encourages fitness programs blended into the daily station routine.
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Paramedic Trainee Pulls 36-Hour Shift
STAFFING AND SCHEDULING IN QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA, has gotten so bad that a trainee-paramedic was forced to work 36 hours straight through.
This is just the latest in a string of embarrassments for the Queensland Ambulance Service which is receiving rec…
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A Blogtalk Radio Show Coming On Soon
THE MONTGOMERY COUNTY (Maryland) FIRE AND RESCUE DEPT. Fire and Life Safety section will be broadcasting a special show on BlogTalk Radio at 7:00 pm Eastern.
But don't worry about missing it.....as with all the shows on BlogTalk Radio, it will be availa…
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NY Post Blasts Scoppetta