Posts Tagged: Canada
Quick Takes
Fire & EMS news fro Tuesday.
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Bus picking up injured firefighters following crash in Ontario turns over. Wife of firefighter killed.
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Quick Takes
Fire and EMS news for Tuesday.
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Quick Takes
Fire and EMS news for a Monday.
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Quick Takes
Fire and EMS news for Monday.
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Home delivery: Firefighter helps brings son into the world on the dining room floor.
Firefighter's first delivery is his own son.
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Quick Takes
Friday's fire and EMS news.
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More from the foul-mouthed fire critics of Sylvan Lake. See the early videos of the blaze that destroyed four homes.
This couple was not happy with the local fire department.
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Quick Takes
Wednesday's fire and EMS news.
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More from Calgary: Raw video of 3-alarm fire. Officials say new code could have kept spread of fire in check.
Officials believe the updated building code requiring sprinklers in attics would have made a significant difference in the spread of Thursday's fire.
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Quick Takes
Friday's news.
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Has the Media gone Totally Insane?
I guess the media trend is leaning towards interviewing the first eyewitness to be found at a fire scene and taking their word as gospel.
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Quick Takes
Fire & EMS news for a Friday.
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Quick Takes
Wednesday's roundup of fire and EMS news.
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UPDATED Quick Takes
Lots of new stuff in Tuesday's fire & EMS news morning roundup.
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Report From Haiti
US&R teams from around the world are engaging missions in Haiti: New York TF 1, Florida TFs 1 and 2, Virginia 1, California 2, and Colorado 1 are working in country, as well as teams from Jamaica, Costa Rica, Salvador, Peru, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Luxemburg, Canada, Russia, Spain, China, France, Iceland, St. Domingo, Mexico, Netherlands, the UK and Colombia.
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Quick Takes
From Friday's Quick Takes: Fire service online community does what Google couldn't; Bumper sticker forces firefighter to find different parking arrangements; Someone admits to withholding autopsy reports from NIOSH; Second quint wrecks in Canada; Update on New Haven's Ricci v. DeStefano; Update from Bourne.
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An Icy Rescue
While he was returning, the ice that he was walking on broke away and started drifting toward the Hudson Bay carrying him as well as a bear and two cubs.
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Wildland Firefighters Eat Your Heart Out
I don't know about you but I think this video is pretty darn cool. If I were a wildland firefighter I might think it were that much more special. The plane is a Lockheed L-188 Electra. The video below is from a fire reported here.
Read about the Kelowna…
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The Fire Critic Twitters!
This is a reminder to all you twitter users out there that The Fire Critic uses Twitter. On top of feeding the RSS feed from this blog, I find to twitter about other information too. I have found the site (twitter) to be fairly informative if you narrow …
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Around the World Fire Report
Good Monday Morning everyone. Today I bring you an Around the World Fire Report. This is not a normal column by The Fire Critic, but you will see it time to time.
California - Calif. fire burns 2,000 acres, forces evacuation
A lightning-sparked wildfire…
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Monday Morning Shoutout – The Bravest Online
Today's Monday Morning Shoutout goes to The Bravest Online. The Bravest Online is one of those best of the best sites. They don't post anything but the cream of the crop. By that I mean the best fires videos and photos. They also put together video compi…
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Fighting Fires in Vacant Structures
I recently came across a forum post on Firefighter Nation by Christopher J. Naum. The post titled "Firefighter Safety at Vacant Structures" got me thinking. Does your department or more importantly you assume that vacant structures are unoccupied?
Don't…
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Going Overboard
[caption id="attachment_210" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Glenn Fontaine, the chairman of the EMS unit of Toronto's outside workers union, has been charged with theft and mischief. Glenn Fontaine arrested after stolen ambulance found aban…
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