Posts Tagged: Charity
Handling the bad news: Estero, Florida firefighters say chief ordered them to leave fire engine & serve alcohol, topless at private fundraiser. Fire commission extends stories life with vague answers.
Vague answers a week late won't get reporters off your back.
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Philadelphia Firefighter Jack Slivinski found dead. Was in center of recent charity calendar controversy.
Coverage of calendar controversy
You may recall the controversy that surfaced two months ago after a Philadelphia firefighter posed shirtless for a charity calendar. We are sad to report that the firefighter involved, 31-year-old John "…
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Nipplegate is over. Philadelphia Fire Commissioner Lloyd Ayers makes rare trial board appearance & sends firefighter/model back to his company.
Columnist believes a YouTube video of Commissioner Ayers is evidence of a double standard.
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Nipplegate: Topless calendar photo brings trouble for Philly firefighter. Commissioner Lloyd Ayers says we sell safety, not sex.
Union president admits they messed up notification, but intentions were good.
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VIDEO: Stockton Hockey Fans Honor Fallen Firefighter With Teddy Bear Toss
[fblike]Check out this video from last nights Stockton Thunder hockey game in California. The fans honored a fallen firefighter through their annual Teddy Bear Toss. In the Thunder’s sixth annual “Teddy Bear Toss” game, fans were invited to donate …
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Naugatuck Firefighter Running Empire State Building Stair Race For A Disabled Vet
[fblike]We just found out about Naugatuck Firefighter Tim Andrew who will be running the Empire State Building Stair Race for a disabled Connecticut veteran. The man, Bob Veillette, suffered a stroke that has paralyzed him from the nose down. The race on…
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2010 Hilton Head Island Buddy Walk
Buddy Walks are held all over the nation to educate about Down syndrome and ours is no different.
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An Angel Comes to Knightstown
.... they were faced with a forced shutdown because they were unable to get the air packs re-certified.
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Corporate Charity in Rochester for Vol. FF
Longtime member, Marty Blakely was on vacation this summer when he became ill from a blood clot in his leg. Diagnosis found that the clot was a product of a cancerous tumor in his leg and it had to be amputated. Marty has a family and now a very limited means of support, so the FD held a fund-raiser to help with his expenses.
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100 Jumps in one day
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You might remember I posted about two Brits who are skydiving for charity, well apparently there is another firefi…
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Fourth of July Fireworks Explosions
In honor of our Independence, I give you some of the largest fireworks disasters, fireworks factory fires, and other fireworks explosions. Your Happy Medic wrote a post about how he really likes fireworks left to the professionals, and I guess I should t…
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Rolling Brownouts, Firehouse Roulette, Firehouse Closures, Layoffs…
Call it what you will, but I call it poor management.
The three highest priorities in any jurisdiction should be:
Public Safety
Education
Refuse Collection
Those are in no particular order. Those are the necessities. PERIOD. Over the last 5 or so y…
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Just so we are clear…The Fire Critic is World Wide
While the Fire Critic builds his vast empire here at FireCritic.com, I want to be sure that EVERYONE knows we are hoping to report and bring in folks from across the GLOBE. I have already seen hits from Europe, Asia, Australia, and other places across th…
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Jay Lowry launches FFHourly.com
Jay Lowry has launched a new website FFhourly.com. The new site should not be mistaken for FirefighterHourly.com but probably will because their names are so familiar. FFhourly.com is not the same thing as FirefighterHourly.com though.
From Jay Lowry:
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Skydive for Charity
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Next month, Arron Dalby and Dave Oliver will be jumping out of a…
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New Haven 20 – Follow up
This is follow up to my earlier post "Court rules for white firefighters over promotions".
If you feel like it you can read the 93 page ruling that is sure to have some pretty thick legal mumbo jumbo in it here riccvsdestefano
I have learned a lot abou…
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Whoyagot?
Bing is the newest competition for google. Not that there have been many competitors for google, they more or less crushed the other search engines on the market at the time of their arrival. Remember lycos and infoseek, when aol, netscape, and one oth…
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Court rules for white firefighters over promotions
I have only followed this story a little bit and it was given more publicity once Sonia Sotomayor was plucked for the high court.
The Supreme Court has ruled that white firefighters in New Haven, Conn., were unfairly denied promotions because of their ra…
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Monday Morning Shoutout – Paramedic-ing Blog
This weeks monday morning shoutout goes to a new blog (much like this one). The Paramedic-ing Blog is new and he knows it. He makes no bones about being the new guy on the block. The blog is written by a medic who works for a fire department in Californi…
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Give a Shoutout
Hey all you webmasters out there. The Fire Critic is looking for shoutouts, or at least a mention on your site. We are running a grassroots marketing effort here at The Fire Critic Headquarters and we need all the help we can get. We believe that we have…
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2nd Class Citizens
Morale...it is all about morale. Firefighters usually don't have a huge audience when it comes to complaining about working conditions or pay and benefits. Occasionally we get all together and stage a public demonstration in order to have the media help …
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Cardiac Arrest only kills 300,000 per year?
Michael Jackson reportedly died of cardiac arrest. I was watching some of the news following his death and one of the channels reported that cardiac arrest only kills around 300,000 each year in the U.S. They followed it up with the fact that there is on…
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Doyle sets out on new adventure to recruit volunteers
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