Posts Categorized: Fire Rescue Topics/vehicle Operations Apparatus
Tanker Rollover in Virginia
THE DRIVER OF A CHARLES CITY COUNTY fire department tanker is hospitalized in serious condition following a single-vehicle accident Sunday morning.
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Mock Wreck Turns Dynamic
Safe-Driving Display Gains Unwanted Realism
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Runaway Firetruck Smashes Into Town Hall
A FIRE ENGINE FROM THE HILTER, GERMANY, Volunteer Fire Brigade lost its steering control Saturday morning and slammed into a wall of the Hilter town hall.
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More downsizing?
Is the London Fire Brigade shrinking their pumpers?
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Saturday Car-Toon: ’47 Ford F5 with 400 hp diesel
A slightly different approach to automotive eye candy: Mike Musto looks at Mitch Allread's '47 Ford F5
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Airport Firetruck Driver Charged in Fatal Crash While Responding
A DARWIN, AUSTRALIA, AIRPORT FIREFIGHTER WAS CHARGED yesterday for a highway crash that killed three people back in August 2011.
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FD Van Rollover Injures 6 Junior Firefighters in Germany
A RHENA, GERMANY, FIRE BRIGADE VAN was transporting a group of Junior Firefighters to an event Sunday morning when it wrecked and rolled over.
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Fire Engine vs. Ambulance in Baltimore
A BALTIMORE CITY, MARYLAND, FIRE ENGINE collided with a department ambulance while both were responding to emergency calls Friday night.
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Firetruck Rollover in Mississippi
A MADISON COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI, FIRE TRUCK rolled over during a driver training session Monday evening leaving the truck demolished.
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Delay, Defer and Reduce
The recession means keeping apparatus well beyond their "Economic Life."
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Warning – Soft Shoulder Ahead
The driver of the fire engine pulled as far to the right as he could in order to clear the other truck, but his right wheels went off the pavement onto the narrow shoulder.
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Fire Engine Stolen for Joyride – Then Brought Back
THE PASCOAG HOSE CO. 1 in Burrillville, Rhode Island, was the victim of a vandal Thursday morning who caused over $10,000 damage to one of their fire engines.
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Aerial Truck Rollover in Belgium
An aerial truck was responding Monday afternoon to a chimney fire near Limbourg, Belgium, when it was involved in an accident that left the truck on its side and blocking the entire roadway.
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Pedestrian Struck, Killed by Stolen Fire Engine
A NAKED MAN JUMPED INTO A PORT ROYAL, South Carolina, fire engine Friday afternoon around 4 pm and drove off in a mad, crash-filled journey that killed one person and wrecked six other vehicles.
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LODD Indiana – Fire Engine Overturns
JEREMY TIGHE, 18, A MEMBER OF the McCutchanville Volunteer Fire Department died Wednesday evening when the fire engine he was riding in left the roadway, partially overturned and "violently" struck a utility pole.
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New Color Scheme for PGFEMS Apparatus
County-owned apparatus faces new look after years old design.
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Firetruck Rollover in Germany
A FIRETRUCK RESPONDING TO A CALL IN RHEINGAU, Germany, left the road and rolled down an embankment Monday morning, coming to rest against a tree.
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What Syracuse and Saint Louis Share
1970's fire suppression innovations fade as technology and the Great Recession impact implementation.
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Be-200 Russian Air Tanker May See Stateside Deployment
If everything falls into place for the contractor the Be-200 could see action in the USA by Summer 2013.
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Updated – Chicago Fire Engine Crash Injures Ten
CHICAGO FIRE DEPARTMENT ENGINE 62 was involved in a collision Tuesday evening around 6:23 pm that injured ten people including four firefighters.
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Elderly Woman Dies in Fire Engine Collision
AN 80-YR.-OLD WOMAN WAS KILLED SATURDAY when her car was struck broadside by Denver, Colorado, Engine 22 as it was responding to a house fire.
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January 17th, 1908 – Scranton PA Fatal Knitting Mill Fire
SCRANTON FACTORY FILLED WITH GIRLS A PREY TO FLAMES
FOUR KILLED AND MANY MEET SERIOUS HURTS
Several Of The Victims Leaped From The Windows.
FEARFUL JAM ON A FIRE ESCAPE.
The Flames Gutted the Interior of the Knitting Mill in Which the Girls Were …
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Do You Trust Your Firetruck? How Much?
And the people in the northeast suburb of Eltham will remember it as the day the firetruck drove into the flood waters.
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5 Injured in Buffalo Fire Engine Crash
BUFFALO, NEW YORK, ENGINE 1 WAS INVOLVED in a vehicle collision while responding to an emergency call Monday night.
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Ambulance Crash Leaves Four Injured in Los Angeles
FOUR PEOPLE INCLUDING TWO FIREFIGHTERS were injured Monday morning when a Los Angeles, California, Fire Department ambulance collided with an automobile at an intersection
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