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THREE BOONTON FIREFIGHTERS INJURED AT FIRE – NEW JERSEY

3 months 1 week ago
Three Boonton firefighters were hospitalized and seven other people were rescued from a building fire in town late Saturday night, local police said. The injuries were not deemed serious, but the blaze at 121 Mechanic St. required a response from more than 100 firefighters, who needed almost two hours to bring it under control. Four dogs were […]
Brian Kazmierzak

CHICAGO FIREFIGHTER INJURED AT HOUSE FIRE WITH MAYDAY ALERT

3 months 1 week ago
A Chicago firefighter is recovering after he was hurt while battling a house fire Friday afternoon on the Far South Side. The fire started at a home near East 131st Street and South Rhodes Avenue. The firefighter who was hurt was found away from the burning home and was taken to a nearby hospital. “Unfortunate […]
Brian Kazmierzak

GRAND RAPIDS FIREFIGHTER SUFFERS BURNS IN FLASHOVER AT HOUSE FIRE – MICHIGAN

3 months 1 week ago
GRAND RAPIDS, MI — A firefighter and two other people were transported to an area hospital following a Thursday afternoon house fire. The firefighter is presently undergoing treatment for mild to moderate second-degree burns Grand Rapids Fire Capt. William Smith told MLive/Grand Rapids Press, shortly after 6 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 14. The firefighter, whose name is not being released at this time, […]
Brian Kazmierzak

FIREFIGHTER HISTORY 12/14

3 months 2 weeks ago
On 12/14/1927 Saint Charles Hospice orphan asylum fire killed thirty-six, all girls, in Quebec City,  Quebec, 371 children were sleeping when the fire started. Believed to have started in the basement the fire broke out in a dormitory on the second floor. “The fire started just before midnight and even before the fire department arrived […]
Karl Thompson

FIRE HALL DAMAGED BY TORNADO – TENNESSEE

3 months 2 weeks ago
SPRINGFIELD, Tenn. (WKRN) — While no deaths have been reported out of Springfield, the damage the Robertson County town sustained in Saturday’s tornado outbreak was devastating. The Springfield Fire Department’s station house 2 on Bradley Drive sustained major damage from the ferocious winds. News 2 traveled to Springfield to survey the damage and days later it is […]
Joe Knitter

FIREFIGHTER HISTORY 12/13

3 months 2 weeks ago
On 12/13/1977 a fire, apparently started by a hairdryer, swept through the 4th floor of Aquinas Hall, a women’s dormitory at Providence College in Providence, Rhode Island that killed ten women and injured at least fifteen others. Two of the women died when they jumped from their window onto the frozen, snow-covered ground.  The fire […]
Karl Thompson

THREE DECOMMISSIONED PHILADELPHIA FIRE COMPANIES TO REOPEN WITH FEDERAL FUNDS

3 months 2 weeks ago
Philadelphia is receiving $22.4 million to pay for 72 firefighters’ salaries and benefits for three years, President Joe Biden announced December 11, 2023 10:41 AM By Chris Megerian and Colleen Long Associated Press PHILADELPHIA — President Joe Biden announced Monday that three decommissioned fire companies were being reopened with federal funding, including a ladder truck […]
Iggy

FIREFIGHTER HISTORY 12/12

3 months 2 weeks ago
On 12/12/1861 the Charleston, South Carolina conflagration started to burn itself out. The fire started the day before and spread because of a “stiff breeze with a small supply of water. “As a cold front bearing high winds swept into Charleston from the northeast, a fire started on December 11th near the intersection of East […]
Karl Thompson

CAR CRASHES INTO FIREHOUSE – TEXAS

3 months 2 weeks ago
WACO, Texas (FOX 44) – Waco Police responded to Fire Station #6 early Monday morning after a car crashed through the building. Police spokesperson Cierra Shipley says the department was notified about the crash around 3 a.m. When officers arrived at 1006 N 25th Street, they found the vehicle that crashed into the building. The […]
Joe Knitter

FIREFIGHTER HISTORY 12/11

3 months 2 weeks ago
On 12/11/1934 an early morning fire “raced through the Kerns Hotel in Lansing, Michigan killing 34 people including seven Michigan state legislators. The fire occurred around 5:30 a.m. and spread rapidly through the building’s wooden interior, trapping many of the hotel’s 215 guests in their rooms and forcing them to escape via fire ladders or […]
Karl Thompson

FIRE STATION DESTROYED BY TORNADO – TENNESSEE

3 months 2 weeks ago
RUTHERFORD, Tenn. – The fire station in a small Tennessee town was damaged by a tornado on Saturday afternoon, officials said. The damage was reported in Rutherford, Tenn., which is about 2 hours northeast of Memphis. A photo by a Rutherford Fire Department employee shows several vehicles damaged at the station. According to FOX Weather, […]
Joe Knitter

FIREFIGHTER HISTORY 12/10

3 months 2 weeks ago
On 12/10/1977 in Bay City, Michigan a flash fire in an aging downtown landmark, the four-story Wenonah Hotel building, a combination apartment building and hotel, housing numerous welfare recipients killed between eight and twelve and injured sixty of the estimated more than 140 persons who were occupying the 306 rooms of the 70-year-old red brick […]
Karl Thompson

FIREFIGHTER HISTORY 12/9

3 months 2 weeks ago
On 12/9/1978 a fire at the state school for the “mentally retarded” in Ellisville, Mississippi killed fifteen patients and injured sixteen others as a smoldering fire in a clothing room sent toxic smoke and gases through the building where sixty-nine female patients slept. The victims died of smoke inhalation, and all were classified as severely […]
Karl Thompson

2 FIREFIGHTERS, 2 COPS STRUCK BY DUI DRIVER IN COLORADO

3 months 2 weeks ago
Two SACFD firefighters were injured and transported to the hospital. One was released, and one will undergo surgery this morning. Please keep our SACFD family, firefighters, their families, the crew, and CCPD in your thoughts Commerce City PD also has two police officers injured and transported and are expected to be okay. There will be […]
Brian Kazmierzak

FIREFIGHTER HISTORY 12/8

3 months 3 weeks ago
On 12/8/1961 a fire erupted out of a 9th-floor trash chute at Hartford Hospital and extended down a corridor like a blowtorch killing six patients, five visitors, and four hospital staff members in Hartford, Connecticut. “The fire broke out at the hospital when a discarded cigarette made its way down a trash chute that extended […]
Karl Thompson
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