Firefighter Close Calls

LIBERTY COUNTY, Ga. (WTOC) – A Liberty County Fire Services tanker truck was involved in a crash in Midway. The Liberty County Fire Chief says the crash happened on Islands Highway in Midway at around 9:45 a.m. on Tuesday. It was a single-vehicle crash only involving the tanker truck. One fire services employee was taken […]

ATLANTA — A person was injured after a crash involving a fire truck. Atlanta Fire and Rescue Department said Engine and Truck 14 were responding to an accident at Arthur Langford EB Expy SW and Perkerson Rd SW around 7:15 p.m. Monday. While Truck 14 blocked traffic to shield Engine 14, another vehicle hit the […]

NORTH LAWRENCE, Ohio (WOIO) – Multiple people were taken to the hospital after a Stark County ambulance was involved in a crash Saturday morning. According to a release from the North Lawrence Volunteer Fire Department, the ambulance was returning from a medical call when it crashed at the intersection of Lincoln Way and Alabama Ave. […]

All, During a working fire in a tenement house in the center of Poznań, Poland an explosion occurred. Two Firefighters were killed in the Line of Duty and a dozen were injured. Seven other Firefighters and three bystanders who were injured in the explosion remain in hospitals. The firefighters received a report of a fire […]

A Queensland volunteer firefighter suffered serious burns when she was caught in a grassfire sparked by hazard reduction burning efforts. The woman in her 60s or 70s was burning at Maidenwell, near Kingaroy in the South Burnett region, with another Rural Fire Service Queensland (RFSQ) volunteer on Thursday afternoon when they both got into trouble. She suffered […]

HENRICO, Va. (WWBT) – Two firefighters were injured after a fire at a Henrico apartment complex. On Friday, Aug. 23, just after 1:30 p.m., Henrico Fire was called to an apartment complex on Gayton Road near Quioccasin Road for numerous reports of a large fire. While on the way, firefighters saw a large column of […]

CAMBRIA COUNTY, Pa. (WJAC) — Officials say three firefighters were injured Friday afternoon in a Cambria County blaze. Flames broke out at a home just after 12:30 p.m. on the 1200 block of of Cushon Street in Cover Hill outside Johnstown. Cover Hill Fire Chief Bill Sherer says the house was fully involved when he first […]

SAN JOSE, Calif. – A two-alarm fire in a South San Jose home injured a firefighter and displaced four residents Thursday afternoon, officials said. The fire first broke out around 8:15 a.m. in the 5500 block of Century Manor Court. The fire was put out shortly before 9 a.m. As crews battled the flames, one firefighter suffered […]

No one knew the burning construction vehicle could become a bomb. Not the driver who tried to douse it with an extinguisher. Not the workers who sent water gushing onto the engine. And not Andrew Pontious, an L.A. County firefighter dispatched to the Palmdale quarry on June 14. Pontious had sprayed water near the vehicle […]

Six people were injured in a crash Friday between a Nassau County Police Department ambulance and an MTA bus in Valley Stream, police say. It happened around 5:30 p.m. at 360 Sunrise Highway. Police say there were around 12 passengers on the bus and that six were taken to the hospital with minor injuries. https://longisland.news12.com/police-6-injured-in-crash-between-ambulance-bus-in-valley-stream

All, A car crashed with fire apparatus in North Philadelphia earlier this afternoon. The crash happened around 12:10 hours at the intersection of West Lehigh and West Sedgley avenues, today, Saturday, Aug. 24. A Philadelphia Fire Department truck was traveling westbound along West Lehigh Avenue while on the way to an assignment when a car […]

By Ryan Nadeau, WRIC: Two firefighters were hospitalized and one other person was burned after a large fire at a Henrico County apartment building that caused its roof to collapse. Just after 1:30 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 23, firefighters with the Henrico County Division of Fire were called to an apartment building on Gayton Road […]

By Red River Farm Network: Farmers and commodities groups are always looking for new products for their crops. Minnesota Soybean Research and Promotion Council Director Glen Groth recently attended a demonstration on SoyFoam, which uses soybean meal for firefighting and came away impressed. “Part of the testing process that United Soybean Board and other soybean […]

By Fox 11: An Inglewood woman was arrested after she was seen on video yelling and swatting at a Los Angeles County firefighter in Gardena before crashing her car into the firefighter’s. It happened around 1 p.m. Wednesday. Frank Rojas said he heard an argument outside his Gardena home before he took out his cell phone and started recording. In the video, the […]

All, The Rural Metro (AZ) Fire Department announced the death of Firefighter Recruit Cody Treatch on Friday. Recruit Treatch became ill at the academy on August 14th and was transported to Banner University Medical Center Tucson. Since hospitalization, his condition progressively worsened. Treatch passed away early yesterday morning. A motorcade was held in honor of […]

WASHINGTON COUNTY, Okla. — Cody Hazelwood, an Oglesby firefighter, sustained traumatic injuries in a single-vehicle crash while responding to a call last Thursday.  His fire department responded to the crash and administered aid to one of their own before he was rushed to the hospital.  “At this time, Cody is expected to remain in the ICU for […]

GRANVILLE — Granville Township police are investigating a traffic accident after a local fire police officer was struck by a vehicle and life flighted to an area trauma center on Wednesday night. According to a press release issued by the Junction Fire Co. on Thursday afternoon, the Junction Fire Co. and other neighboring companies were […]

PANTEGO, Texas – A North Texas deputy fire chief was recently arrested for driving drunk in a fire department vehicle. The arrest happened last month in the Fort Worth suburb of Pantego. The deputy fire chief was in uniform when he picked up a stranded driver for a courtesy ride while twice over the legal limit for […]

Review of stay put guidance at Grenfell London Fire Commissioner, Andy Roe, acknowledged that residents of Grenfell Tower were told to “stay put for too long” during the devastating fire. The Fire Brigades Union responded by supporting a review of the “stay put” policy but highlighted deeper underlying issues. The union stated that while reviewing such policies is important, […]

Russian Orthodox priests have visited the scene of a huge fire at a fuel depot, which continues to burn three days after being set alight in a Ukrainian drone attack. More than 500 firefighters have been tackling the giant blaze at the Proletarsk oil storage facility in the southern Rostov region. About 20 of 74 […]