Posts Categorized: Rescue
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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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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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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Ladder Rescue in China
LADDER RESCUE TECHNIQUES in the Far East are not much different than in the West.
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Truck Into Bedroom Kills Driver
The most unusual wreck was a freight truck that suddenly slid off the road in Meiningen and jacknifed into a house with the truck cab crashing through a bedroom.
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The Extreme Home Makeover in Texas
By Jeanie Fossati, Fire Corps Texas State Advocate
The following is the firsthand account of Fire Corps Texas State Advocate Jeanie Fossati’s experience helping the Extreme Makeover: Home Edition crew to build a new house for volunteer firefighter M…
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Dramatic Citizen Fire Rescue in France
A 90-YR.-OLD WOMAN WAS RESCUED from her blazing apartment by a crew of policemen and two neighbors Tuesday evening.
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Merchant Ship Ka-Boom in Korean Waters
A MERCHANT FREIGHTER THAT CARRIES PETROLEUM products had a hull-breaking explosion Sunday morning off the coast of South Korea.
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Cruise Ship Rips Hull, Sinks. Scores Missing
A LUXURY CRUISE LINER RAN AGROUND near Tuscany, Italy, late Friday night, ripping a 160-ft.-long seam in the hull
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Nominate FFs for National Awards
Is there an outstanding volunteer firefighter, fire prevention officer, or junior firefighter in your department? Then recognize their achievements by nominating them for one of four prestigious national awards from the National Volunteer Fire Council.
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40-Vehicle Pileup Kills 2 in New Orleans
A PRE-DAWN PILEUP ON I-10 ENTERING New Orleans, Lousiana, Thursday left 2 people dead and about 59 others injured.
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Paramedic Dies During Canyon Rescue
AN AUSTRALIAN PARAMEDIC WAS KILLED ON CHRISTMAS EVE during a rescue attempt of two "canyoners" who were trapped at the foot of a cataract in New South Wales.
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Multi-Vehicle Accident Brings “Rain of Money”
THE FIREFIGHTERS OF BORNHOVED, Germany, weren't expecting a 6-hour cleanup following a multi-car crash with injuries Wednesday morning,
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Santa Makes a Save!
WITNESSES IN DALLAS COUNTY, TEXAS, WERE AMAZED Tuesday as they watched Santa Claus hop out of a car and pull a crash victim from his burning pickup truck.
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Firefighters Burned in Brooklyn
A FIRE IN A 3-STORY BROWNSTONE IN BROOKLYN, New York, Monday morning took off trapping five members of Rescue 2 who were on the third floor.
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This is Not a Drill
THIS IS NOT ONE OF THOSE EXTRICATION CONTESTS that are run to challenge competition,
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Mad Gunman Attacks Crowd in Belgium
A CRAZED MAN CLIMBED ATOP A BAKERY in downtown Liege, Belgium, midday Tuesday and began shooting into crowds of Christmas shoppers while also hurling grenades from the rooftop onto the helpless people
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Who Ya’ Gonna Call?
His fire brigade was called out Sunday night to a farm in the community of Frankershausen for a reported cow stuck on the roof of a barn.
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Bystanders Rescue Man From Burning Car
Large Blaze at Gas Station
SOME BRAVE BYSTANDERS RAN TO THE AID of a man trapped inside a burning car at the gas island of a convenience store in Dayton, Ohio, Saturday afternoon.
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Police say the man had suffered a medical incident while dr…
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Rescue in Wilmington
WILMINGTON, DELAWARE, FIREFIGHTERS responded to a rowhouse fire Friday afternoon and found heavy smoke showing along with several neighbors and police officers attempting to reach two children known to be on the second floor.
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Students Burned When Science Lab Experiment Goes Awry
FOUR 9th-GRADE STUDENTS IN MAPLE GROVE, Minnesota, were burned Thursday morning when a demonstration of the properties of flammable liquids triggered a flash fire.
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Unique Tunnel Rescue Vehicle
The tunnel is covered with 83 CCTV cameras, 538 fire detectors, 39 fire hydrants, 38 SOS stations.
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Cowardly Driver Crashes Into Home Starting a Fire, Then Runs Away Leaving Injured Passenger Behind
The accident took place around 5 am when the not-yet identified driver traveling at a high speed jumped a curb and crashed into a double-wide mobile home starting a fire.
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Sickness Call Escalates to Mass Casualty Incident
WIESBADEN, GERMANY, FIREFIGHTERS WERE CALLED Thursday morning to an apartment building where a rescue unit had arrived around 7:30 am for a "sickness" call.
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