Posts Tagged: Philadelphia
UPDATE – Audio from Philadelphia house fire with rescues. Three firefighters & four civilians hurt. Lt. critical but stable.
One firefighter seriously burned on both arms.
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Firehouse Zen in Philadelphia at Liberty Regional Training Event
I actually used to sneak into the movie theatre that is in the hotel complex downstairs from the convention center.
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Video: Philadelphia garage fire with collapse.
Collapse hits near firefighter.
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Poverty, Violence and Flash Mobs
Night Four of rioting. Can you find similar conditions of poverty, youth and diminished social services in your community?
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Urban Firefighter Magazine Issue 5
Issue 5 of Urban Firefighter Magazine is posted!
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YouTube video of Philadelphia battalion chief singing the National Anthem brings charges. John Grillone says he was just trying to boost morale.
No comment from Philadelphia fire commissioner.
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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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Station Closures, Budget Cuts, Staffing Cuts…and the Race Card
Silberberg's article is a well written piece meant to get people to their feet. To educate them that cuts to public safety can effect anyone and everyone. That public safety cuts are not the answer and that cuts MUST be made elsewhere!
Mahnoney's article is meant to get firefighters to stand up. To educate the poorer communities that public safety cuts show that their governement does not care about them if they are willing to cut their services.
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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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Get A Grip! Apparently It’s Illegal To Touch Yourself In A Walgreen’s Parking Lot?
Turns out that you can't fondle yourself in a Walgreen's parking lot and ask a woman (with an infant) to touch your genitals for money. It's against the law. Just ask FF Joseph Phillips of the Collingdale (PA) Fire Department. The incident occurred in th…
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Private ambulances under fire in Philly. TV station joins feds in probing potential fraud.
First in two part series looking at people who may not need an ambulance, but Medicare is footing the bill.
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Quick Takes: February 7, 2011.
Fire & EMS news for Monday.
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Raw Video: Deadly Gas Explosion Rocks Tacony Section of Philadelphia
A Gas Explosion killed a gas worker in Philadelphia tonight. The explosion was caught on video.
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Raw video: More from Monday’s 5th alarm at 4800 Walnut Street in Philly.
Ground video from yesterday's large apartment building fire.
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Raw video & fireground audio: Two 5-alarm fires in Philly in two days.
Fire today was in a large apartment building. Sunday's fire was in a charter school.
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Video: Philadelphia Firefighters Battle Two 5 Alarm Fires in Two Days
Can Philadelphia afford to continue cutbacks in the fire department? Yeah, Philly doesn't need firefighters. Hell, the City might as well continue to cut positions, brownout, and close stations. I don't see any need in them....then again, check out these two 5 alarm fires within 24 hours of each other and ask yourself that question again. There were around 150 firefighters on scene of each of these fires... I doubt even this could open some of the council member's eyes!
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Union Busting in Philadelphia. The State Labor Relations Board Rules that Paramedics CANNOT be Members of the Philadelphia Firefighters Unioin.
Philadelphia paramedics are getting the boot from the State Labor Relations Board. The paramedics will no longer be allowed to be members of the Philadelphia Firefighters Union Local 22 because they are not cross-trained in firefighting.
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Is this a “Brown-out” fatality?
After 12 hours browned out, 1st due engine not available because it is swapping ambulances at the shop in the first hour it is back in service.
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Our Favorite Forefather – Benjamin Franklin
I think we should all take a moment out of our Fourth of July festivities to think about, and express our deepest gratitude to the founding fathers of our great country for what they did in establishing the framework of a democracy that has survived the test of time.
Of all the forefathers, the one we should place on the highest pedestal is Benjamin Franklin who among his greatest accomplishments was the founding of the volunteer fire service.
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Quick Takes
Fire and EMS news for a Monday.
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Philly fire truck & police car collide on the way to the same fire. Bicyclist & cop injured.
Crash occurred in West Philadelphia.
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Poor NBC Reporting in Philadelphia
There is an old adage in baseball that an umpire explaining his job once said “I calls em as I sees em.” Well it appears to me that if Justin Pizzi, a reporter at WCAU, the NBC affiliate in Philadelphia, was calling balls and strikes his career as an umpire would be over before it began.
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Quick Takes
Wednesday's fire and EMS news.
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Why We Search: Philadelphia
One “Rat” Unable to “Scatter Away”