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UPDATE: NTSB RELEASES PRELIMINARY REPORT ON FIRE/RESCUE HELICOPTER CRASH – FLORIDA

1 week 4 days ago
BROWARD COUNTY, Fla. — The National Transportation Safety Board released its preliminary report of a Broward Sheriff’s Office helicopter crash that killed two people last week, including Capt. Terryson Jackson. Three first responders were onboard the helicopter the morning of Aug. 28, as they were on the way to transport a patient from a car accident […]
Joe Knitter

FIREFIGHTER HISTORY 9/9

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On 9/9/1973 the three-story, wood-frame 30-room, 100-year-old Sedgwick Hotel in Bath Maine was destroyed by a fire that killed three men and a woman and injured eighteen in a building with no fire detection or alarm system and no fire sprinklers. The fire was reported to the fire department at 4:13 a.m. A ¼-inch separation […]
Karl Thompson

FIREFIGHTER HISTORY 9/8

1 week 6 days ago
On 9/8/1934 the SS Morro Castle fire killed 137 of the 549 passengers and crew on board the ship underway off of the New Jersey coast. A luxury cruise ship en route from Havana to New York caught fire and burned around 2:50 a.m. The ship was sailing about eight nautical miles off Long Beach […]
Karl Thompson

FIREFIGHTER HISTORY 9/7

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On 9/7/1943 the Gulf Hotel fire claimed fifty-five lives in the early-morning hours in downtown Houston, Texas. “The hotel was located on the northwest corner of Louisiana and Preston Streets and occupied the upper two floors of a three-story Type III Ordinary Construction brick and joist building, with a variety of retail businesses occupying the […]
Karl Thompson

CAR CRASHES INTO FIRE STATION, TWO INJURED – SOUTH CAROLINA

2 weeks 1 day ago
From the City of Beaufort/Town of Port Royal Fire Department Facebook Page: The Beaufort/Port Royal FD is on scene at Beaufort/Port Royal FD Station 4. At approximately 1:45pm, a vehicle crashed into the fire station after striking another vehicle on Robert Smalls Parkway. Thankfully none of our firefighters were injured in the accident. Our firefighters […]
Joe Knitter

FIREFIGHTER HISTORY 9/6

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On 9/6/1896 the Yore’s Opera House in Benton Harbor, Michigan was destroyed by fire, and twelve firefighters died. “Sometime around midnight, the large four-story brick building of Yore’s Opera House started to burn. Before firefighters could arrive, the fire built in ferocity, and the building was well engulfed in flame. St. Joseph fire departments also […]
Karl Thompson

SOUTH CHARLESTON FIRE DEPARTMENT IS FIRST IN STATE TO OFFER CANCER SCREENINGS FOR FIREFIGHTERS – WEST VIRGINIA

2 weeks 2 days ago
SOUTH CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WCHS) — The South Charleston Fire Department is making history by becoming the first department in West Virginia to offer cancer screenings for firefighters. “Make sure we are [decontaminating] and taking care of ourselves the way that we should,” firefighter and EMT Corey Smith said. It starts with a single blood test. It’s […]
Joe Knitter

FIREFIGHTER HISTORY 9/5

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On 9/5/1881 the “Great Thumb Fire” of Michigan, a forest fire killed over 282 people, burned over a million acres, and damaged over 20 townships in less than a day. The fire is known as the Great Thumb Fire, the Great Forest Fire of 1881, or the Huron Fire, burned in Sanilac, Lapeer, Tuscola, and […]
Karl Thompson

FIREFIGHTER INJURED AFTER FALL THROUGH FLOOR AT HOUSE FIRE – OHIO

2 weeks 2 days ago
CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) – A Cleveland firefighter was injured fighting a house fire on the city’s East side Monday afternoon. Crews were called out to the vacant home in the 3300 block of E. 146th St. around 2:50 p.m. This is in the city’s Mount Pleasant neighborhood. The firefighter fell through the floor, but is […]
Joe Knitter

FIREFIGHTER SUFFERS BURNS DURING HOUSE FIRE – OHIO

2 weeks 2 days ago
CINCINNATI (WXIX) – One firefighter suffered burns at a Northside home fire on Monday. The fire broke out just before 1:30 p.m. at a three-story multi-family home in the 4200 block of Hamilton Avenue. Firefighters said they saw smoke coming from the second story of the home when they arrived, however, the fire started on […]
Joe Knitter

FIREFIGHTER HISTORY 9/4

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On 9/4/1894 the first fog nozzle for fighting fires was patented. A fog nozzle breaks water flowing through it into “tiny” droplets, creating more surface area absorbing the heat and creating steam. The A. J. Morse company made a brass 2-½” “fireboat type nozzle and stand” with patent dates of Aug. 2, 1891, July 31, […]
Karl Thompson

FIREFIGHTER HISTORY 9/3

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On 9/3/1991 the Imperial Foods chicken processing plant fire killed twenty-five in Hamlet, North Carolina.  Twenty-five people were killed and fifty-four injured in a fire that trapped the occupants behind locked fire doors after a hydraulic line failure caused a fire. “The intense fire quickly spread products of combustion throughout the plant causing employees to […]
Karl Thompson

FIREFIGHTER HISTORY 9/2

2 weeks 5 days ago
On 9/2/1975 the 1st reported Learn Not to Burn® public service announcement (PSA) started in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, and Muskegon, Michigan. On 9/2/1666 the Great Fire of London, a major conflagration, swept through central London, burning from Sunday to Wednesday. The fire destroyed the medieval City of London consuming over 13,200 houses, and 87 parish […]
Karl Thompson

ROOF COLLAPSE INJURES TWO AT MASSACHUSETTS FIRE

2 weeks 6 days ago
The roof has collapsed as firefighters battle a large blaze in the Tony’s Bar and Cafe building in New Bedford, Massachusetts, on Friday morning. The fire was reported around 6:30 a.m. Friday at 118-120 County St., with people reportedly still in the building, according to the New Bedford Fire Department. Heavy smoke could be seen […]
Joe Knitter

FIREFIGHTER HISTORY 9/1

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On 9/1/1972 the Blue Bird Café and the Wagon Wheel, a country and western bar, fire in Montreal, Canada killed thirty-seven, as a result of arson at the nightclub where more than 200 people were at the bar celebrating the Labor Day weekend. Three excessively intoxicated young men were refused entry around 10:45 p.m. and […]
Karl Thompson

WEST VIRGINIA FIRE STATION DEEMED TOTAL LOSS DUE TO FLOODING

3 weeks ago
KANAWHA COUNTY, W.Va. (WSAZ) – First responders who would’ve been first on scene to help out during the dramatic flooding Monday morning were hindered by water damage to their own fire station. The Chesapeake Volunteer Fire Department’s Winifrede Station is deemed a total loss. “The creek washed out the foundation from under most of the […]
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