Posts Categorized: News/rescues
Seafare Restaurant Burns Down in Myrtle Beach
MYRTLE BEACH - Horry County fire crews battle a blaze at a Myrtle Beach restaurant. The Seafare Restaurant at 9925 North Kings Highway caught fire at approximately 9:23pm Saturday night, said Horry County Fire Rescue spokesperson Lesley Yancey. (more..…
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Vacant Mill In Clinton Destroyed In Fire
CLINTON - Fire crews are still on the scene of a fire that destroyed an Upstate mill. Clinton firefighters responded just after 7pm Saturday to the Lydia Mill on Peachtree Street. The fire destroyed what was left of the now vacant mill. It was in …
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Fire Destroys Spartanburg County Home
HOLLY SPRINGS - A massive fire destroyed a home on Ben Hurt Road Extension tonight near Lyman Lake in Spartanburg County. Holly Springs Fire responded just before 7pm Saturday. Nine other fire departments joined the effort. Firefighters coul…
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Tanker Truck Burns In Massive Fire After Anderson County Wreck
ANDERSON COUNTY - Flames and black smoke billowed from a tanker truck that caught fire after a crash in Anderson County. The South Carolina Highway Patrol reported the accident on Shady Grove Road near Holiday Dam Road at 10:23 a.m. (more...)…
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Helmet-cam raw video: Watch the entire video of the fire with children trapped in Alameda County, California from earlier in the week.
Raw video of helmet-cam from fire with multiple children rescued in San Leandro.
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Alameda County Working: Rescue Company Helmet Cam Captures Rescues and More
Video from Rescue Officer answers critics about delay in getting water on the fire and shows that chasing kinks is everyone's job. Where is that firm benchmark that says you must have water on the fire by __ time?
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Ambulance Crash in North Carolina
A FIRST MED AMBULANCE COLLIDED WITH a delivery truck near Kinston, North Carolina, Wednesday evening. Both vehicles then went off the road with the ambulance taking out an electric pole and ending upside down.
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Texas Fire Chief and Family Members Charged with Embezzlement
A Texas fire chief, his mother, and his sister have been arrested and charged with embezzling approximately $40,000 from the Iola Volunteer Fire Department. Fire Chief Earl Sword, his mother Wanda Sword (an accountant of the fire department) and his …
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Challenging Containment in Ancient Town Center in Germany – 3 Rescues Included
A DIFFICULT FIRE IN HECHINGEN, GERMANY, Monday evening destroyed a centuries-old home in the town center and heavily damaged four others
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Highway Crash in Ontario Leaves 11 Dead
A PASSENGER VAN CARRYING MIGRANT WORKERS was struck broadside by a flat-bed truck Monday evening at a rural intersection near Stratford, Ontario, in the far southeastern portion of the Province.
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Best of the Rest – Moving Fires, Sweepstakes, America’s Fire Captain and much more!
Come see Superman & Lex Luthor together: Or maybe it's more like Austin Powers & Dr. Evil. Dave Statter meets Rhett Fleitz. Somehow I ended up on the same bill with THE Fire Critic at the Ohio Fire & Emergency Services Foundation's 2012 Leadership Conference.
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FF’s On Elevator Rescue Get Stuck On Elevator
When the firefighter who was able to reach him got the victim onto another car, it became stuck and both of them were trapped and in need of freeing.
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So Much for That “It’s Not Vacant Until We Search” Ideology
Aggressive and Safety each took a hit in Toledo.
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UPDATE – Audio from Philadelphia house fire with rescues. Three firefighters & four civilians hurt. Lt. critical but stable.
One firefighter seriously burned on both arms.
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Morphine Pumps and Driving Apparatus
Today’s burning question: I am a firefighter paramedic in a volunteer fire department. One of our ambulance drivers was recently put on a morphine pump, and many of us are concerned about whether he should be allowed to drive, or even respond at all…
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Fire Burns Festiva Welcome Center
HORRY COUNTY - Traffic will continue to be slow moving Friday afternoon after a two alarm blaze at a Myrtle Beach Welcome Center shut down the beach bound lanes of Highway 501.
Leslie Yancey, spokeswoman for Horry County Fire Rescue, said firefighte…
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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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Pennsylvania Firefighter Charged With Indecent Assault on Junior
A 20 year old volunteer firefighter from Pennsylvania has been charged with indecent assault for sexually assaulting a junior firefighter last year. Joseph Traino, of the Chambers Hill Fire Company, was in court yesterday on charges that date back to O…
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Chambersburg Union President Disciplined Over Two Hatter Request
An IAFF union president from Pennsylvania has been disciplined for asking other IAFF members not to volunteer during their off-duty hours in his jurisdiction.
Chambersburg Fire Department Captain Patrick Martin, President of Greater Chambersburg Area…
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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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Fire at Mill Creek Amenity Center
BLUFFTON - January 29, 2012: As Shift 2 was preparing for shift change; they were dispatched to a structure fire at the Mill Creek Amenity Center. Around 7:30am, a passerby, noticed smoke and flames coming from the roof area near the chimney. Engine 32…
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Florida Brush Fire Smoke Leads To Multiple Highway Deaths
Within minutes after 3:30 am a series of chain collisions began in both the northbound and southbound lanes of the Interstate highway with many of the vehicles catching on fire and burning up.
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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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Officer killed, suspect jailed
AIKEN - Less than a week after Aiken Public Safety officers removed the black mourning badges from their uniforms in memory of an officer killed, the department is suffering another in-the-line of duty death. About 7:35 a.m. Saturday, Aiken Public S…
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Playing the Rescue Card