Two Virginia Departments Victimized By Insider Theft
Two volunteer fire departments from Virginia are in the news today, both victims of insider theft by high ranking officials. In Louisa County, fire chief Mark McGheen of the Trevilans Volunteer Fire Department stands accused of embezzling thousands of do…
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Mysterious Smoking Drum Generates Haz-Mat and Bomb Squad Response
When they reported back for work on Monday morning they found the barrel hissing and smoking.
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Lightning Strikes Chemical Tanks in Pennsylvania …. Vol. Fire Police Officer Suffers Fatal Heart Attack
Two Quarter Million-Gallon Tanks Involved
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Leadership That Matters, Part 15: The Bag of Tricks
Altruistic behavior on your part is great, but for it to be transformational requires the recipient to have a clue.
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Raw video & early pictures: Fire & wall collapse at West Plains, Missouri thrift store.
Video as part of the wall collapses.
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Is a revolutionary fire resistive coating lost through the death of the eccentric creator?
Did the formula for a high performance fire resistive coating die with hairdresser Maurice Ward in 2011?
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Morning Lineup – May 16
Wednesday Morning
I know we have a lot of baseball fans here, so I'd like to pass along this entertaining, but provocative, article posted last night in the Wall Street Journal. It was written by Rich Cohen, a noted sports writer, and he lay…
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Uniforms
It's not the uniform, it's the person who wears it. That little gem of insight came to me yesterday as I drove to work while listening to the Red Sox game. Tim Wakefield was in the booth talking between pitches. I found my self lost in a bit of…
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Expensive Fire at BMW Motorcycle Dealer in Paris
A FIRE BROKE OUT AT A PARIS, France, BMW motorcycle dealer around 1 pm Monday afternoon.
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First Due Tackle Goes Live
It is with great excitement that we can announce the launch of this new Fire&EMS blog network site. Much of the information on this site has been transferred in from my old blog including the posts contributed by others.
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EMS Changes: A Personal Journey
I will be speaking about why I got into EMS, what care was like when I started, how it has changed over the last twenty or so years, and how it has changed me. I'll also take a stab at where it may go in the future. I hope you will join me.
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Raw video & pictures: Man rescued from balcony at rooming house in Ottawa.
Bed & breakfast. Fire & Rescue.
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Best of the Rest – Learning to Crawl, Fingerprints, Chicago Fire, All My Rowdy Friends…and More
Best of the Rest - Learning to Crawl, Fingerprints, Fireground Flowthrough, Chicago Fire, All My Rowdy Friends, Terrifying Secrets About Riding in an Ambulance, Training, and much more!
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Raw video: House fire with exposures in Utica, New York.
Two homes on Lincoln Avenue burn.
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Auburn Fire Division, AL receives new fire engine.
14-year-old rig moves to reserve status.
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