January 2008

Ambulance Crashes and Ejects Paramedic – Chino, CA

January 31, 2008

   A Ford hubcap, glass and a license plate littered the street Wednesday morning after an ambulance and a sport utility vehicle collided. A female employee of American Medical Response was thrown out of the back of the ambulance by the impact at Chino Hills Parkway and Peyton Drive,

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Man Dies In Motor Home Fire – Las Vegas

January 30, 2008

  A middle-aged man became the city’s first fire fatality of the year after the motor home he was living in caught fire Tuesday morning. 

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Firefighters Break into Burning Home, Aid 2 Struggling Dogs

January 30, 2008

Tucson firefighters rescued two dogs after busting through a wrought-iron door and into a burning home on the South Side Tuesday morning, an official said. When firefighters arrived at the home in the 700 block West Calle Colado, near South 12th Avenue and West Valencia Road, they found flames coming from a corner bedroom, said [...]

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Homes Succumb to Early Morning Blaze – Los Angeles

January 29, 2008

On Tuesday, January 29, 2008 at 5:13 AM, 14 Companies of Los Angeles Fire Dept. responded to a Greater Alarm Structure Fire near 1701 East 112th Street in Watts. Firefighters arrived quickly to find a pair of adjacent 2 story residential dwellings under construction and fully involved with fire, the flames threatening occupied structures to [...]

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2 Alarm Fire in A Shopping Center – Las Vegas

January 29, 2008

A fire in a shopping center on West Sahara Avenue late Sunday morning has been ruled accidental by Las Vegas fire investigators. There were no injuries in connection with the incident. On Sunday January 27, Fire dispatchers received numerous calls at 8:50 a.m. that smoke was coming from the ZIA Record store located in the [...]

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American LaFrance Is In Financial Trouble

January 29, 2008

Founded in 1832, one of the worlds oldest manufacturer of fire engines is trying to pull itself out of financial trouble. I once heard a fireman say, “Friends don’t let friends drive American La Chance.” Obviously he was a Pierce guy. American LaFrance LLC (the “Company” or “ALF”) announced today that it has filed a [...]

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Rescue Crews Respond to Boiler Collapse – San Francisco

January 28, 2008

Firefighters and EMS crews aided several people that were trapped. One worker is dead and another two people were seriously injured when a four-story PG&E structure collapsed in San Francisco on Monday.   Watch Video of rescue operation A call at about noon reported a boiler accident that trapped several people, Talmadge said.One of the workers [...]

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Extensive Line Of Duty Death Report – Kyle Wilson

January 28, 2008

Prince William County VA – An extensive report on the LODD of Prince William County’s Kyle Wilson was released this weekend. The investigative report, which is only one portion of the report, is 382 pages long. The fire-ground audio, animations, videos and still pictures are part of a video time-line of the fire. It is [...]

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Vertical Channel Rescue – LAFD

January 28, 2008

On Sunday, January 27, 2008 at 7:56 AM, units from the LAFD responded to a Traffic Collision at Avenue 43 and the Pasadena Freeway in Lincoln Heights/Solano Canyon. A car traveling northbound on the Pasadena Freeway jettisoned off the freeway, landing in a flood control channel which runs parallel to the freeway. The car came [...]

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Rebuilding Fire Stations With Dennis Leary

January 28, 2008

Since our IAFF brothers in New Orleans have been impacted so severely from hurricane Katrina, I wanted to give us some appreciation for the stations, department and conditions that we have here. Our New Orleans counter-parts have been working out of trailers for a very long while. Maybe the story you’re about to read is [...]

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