Posts Tagged: French Firefighters
French FF’s Protest Degradation
Politicians Want To Lower Standards and Wages
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Celebrating Saint Barbara
EACH YEAR IN DECEMBER IN FRANCE, Firefighters celebrate their patron saint, Saint Barbara.
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Armchair Quarterbacking in France
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There is a video traversing the many fire sites that an American took of a fire among row houses in France. I am sure that many Urban American …
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Two More Casualties in Ocracoke, NC
Two more people died from the fireworks explosion we reported yesterday. The original report is here.You can read more about the third and fourth victims who died at the hospital due to injuries sustained in the explosion here. One more remains injured.
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North Carolina Fireworks Explosion
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While checking out the World News tonight I noticed another fireworks explosion...this time in North Carolina. An earlier post detailed several large…
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Building Construction Questioned in Deadly Flat Fire
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Officials are questioning the design of a 12 story flat in England. The …
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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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