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Alameda Fire Department Brownouts Begin

February 6, 2009

ALAMEDA, Calif. (KCBS) – Rotating firehouse “brownouts” were scheduled to begin Monday in Alameda.
That could mean a delayed response by emergency officials, to incidents in the community.
Normally, the Alameda Fire Department staffs 5 engines, 2 trucks, and 3 ambulances every day. The staffing level stood at 27. Beginning this week, those figures will change. Listen [...]

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Dramatic Pictures of the FDNY at a fire in Queens

January 31, 2009

Five members of a Queens family were fighting for their lives Tuesday night after a fast-moving fire ripped through their home.
Veronica Montero’s panicked screams – choked by gasps for air – begged an FDNY dispatcher for help as she tried to save her two little boys.

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There’s a nationwide crisis in emergency medical response…

January 23, 2009

The dispatcher had said, “21-year-old male, trouble breathing.” But when paramedics Russ Bryant and Mike Haley arrive on the scene in North Philadelphia a few minutes later, the man is breathing just fine.
“What’s going on?” Bryant asks him gently. “I tried to eat a whole stick of butter,” he says. “On a bet. For a [...]

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Watch-out while napping on the fire line…

January 23, 2009

In a previously posted story we read that “Friends don’t let other friends burn” – the boys from Las Vegas Fire Rescue responded to that one…. Here in LA….the opposite occurred:
Los Angeles – Police said a 30-year-old man has been arrested for investigation of murdering a homeless man who was doused with a flammable liquid [...]

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Two Dead, One Critically Burned in Crenshaw Blaze

January 16, 2009

On Friday, January 16, 2009 at 1:03 AM, 9 Companies of Los Angeles Firefighters, 4 LAFD Rescue Ambulances, 5 Arson Units, 2 EMS Battalion Captains, 1 Battalion Chief Officer Command Team and 1 Division Chief Officer Command Team, a total of 64 Los Angeles Fire Department personnel under the direction of Battalion Chief Ralph Ramirez, [...]

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4.5 earthquake shakes San Bernardino and much of CA Southland

January 9, 2009

SAN BERNARDINO – A 4.5 earthquake centered near downtown shook much of the Southland on Thursday night.
There were also a number of small aftershocks in the hour following the quake, including a 3.3 earthquake in San Bernardino at 8:47 p.m.
Public-safety agencies said there were few reports of immediate damage. ..

Having an earthquake occur at the [...]

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Eastern Kentucky Firefighters Accused of Arson

November 10, 2008

Two current and one former Eastern Kentucky firefighters are accused of allegedly creating more work for firefighters by setting blazes in Pike and Knox counties.
Christopher C. Little, 30, of Pike County, James Adam Yeager, 20, of Knox County and Walter D. Brown, 23, also of Knox, were arrested and charged with arson after they allegedly [...]

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Three Ohio Firefighters Hurt in Blast

November 1, 2008

A gas explosion at a W. Broad Street business yesterday afternoon sent a fireball into the sky, flattened cars in a lot next door and injured four veteran Columbus firefighters.

Three firefighters were blown out the front door after they walked into the Cherry Box adult bookstore about 2:45 p.m., Battalion Chief Doug Smith said. They [...]

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Remembering SoCal Five Years After The Firestorms

October 26, 2008

It is the five year anniversary of the Grand Prix Fire, Cedar Fire and the Old Fire.  Those that assisted in these major wildland and urban conflagration fires will remember them as defining moments in their career.  The long hours of firefighting and utter devastation is burned deeply into all of our minds.
It was a [...]

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Las Vegas Fire & Rescue Medical Coordinator Receives Highest Certification Honors

October 25, 2008

Metropolitan Medical Response System (MMRS) Coordinator Chris Sproule, of Las Vegas Fire & Rescue, recently received the professional designation of Chief Fire Officer (CFO) from the Center for Public
Safety Excellence and Certified Emergency Manager from the International Association of Emergency Managers (IAEM). He is the third member of Las Vegas Fire & Rescue to receive [...]

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