A firefighter was killed while working the Lolo Peak fire Wednesday afternoon — the second firefighter death in Montana this fire season.
Missoula County Sheriff T.J. McDermott said an official investigation to determine the cause of death is still underway.
Dispatchers at the Lolo Peak fire said the man was given CPR after apparently being struck by a falling snag. - PUB DATE: 8/3/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Missoula Missoulian
Authorities pulled a second body from the rubble Wednesday night, after a building exploded and collapsed at Minnehaha Academy earlier in the day.
At just before 10 p.m., Fire Chief John Fruetel announced that searchers had been able to locate and remove the body of the missing male victim, who had been identified by the school as 81-year-old school custodian John Carlson, at about 8 p. - PUB DATE: 8/3/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KARE-TV NBC 11
A D.C. firefighter was critically injured after he was struck by another fire department vehicle late Wednesday night.
The accident happened as firefighters were responding to a rowhouse fire on the 800 block of F Street NE at 11:30 p.m.
Fire officials say 28-year-old Dane Smothers Jr. was preparing hose lines and other equipment when he was struck by a ladder truck arriving at the scene. - PUB DATE: 8/3/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: NBC Washington
The Orange County Fire Rescue Department is attempting to reduce response times with a new GPS technology that uses locations of its vehicles to dispatch firefightersThe department started using Automatic Vehicle Location for dispatch in June to make its operations more efficient, Fire Rescue Chief Otto Drozd III said. - PUB DATE: 8/3/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Orlando Sentinel
The St. Paul fire chief recently suspended a captain for five days, saying he “engaged in fraudulent and deceptive conduct related to requests and use of sick leave with pay.” The city said Mike Hamburger’s use of sick time cost it $14,000. The figure doesn’t include the cost of having firefighters fill the open posts, which is frequently at overtime rates. - PUB DATE: 8/3/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: St. Paul Pioneer Press - Twin Cities.com
Two people remain unaccounted for after a gas leak caused building to explode and catch fire at Minnehaha Academy Wednesday morning, CBS Minneapolis reports.
One person who was previously missing was found uninjured, the Minneapolis Fire Chief Bryan Tanner said in a press conference several hours after the blast, which occurred just after 10:30 a. - PUB DATE: 8/2/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: CBS News
When the ATF held a press conference in West, Texas more than a year ago to announce a big finding in the 2013 fertilizer plant explosion, there was a lot riding on it.
Hundreds of lawsuits had been filed against the fertilizer manufacturer. Much further reaching, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency was working on a rewrite of one of two major sets of federal rules governing chemical plant safety. - PUB DATE: 8/2/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Houston Chronicle
People tell their doctors about family history of cancer, heart disease and other common conditions that have a genetic link.
But when Dr. Matilde Castiel, Worcester’s commissioner of health and human services, asked seven city firefighters attending a training on opioid addiction Tuesday whether any of their relatives had an addiction, none raised his hand. - PUB DATE: 8/2/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Worcester Telegram & Gazette
It's been nearly two months since Anchorage firefighter, Ben Schultz, was critically injured after falling off a ladder at AFD and Monday his family witnessed a long awaited moment.
According to his father, Jeff Schultz, Ben spoke a few words Monday which are the first words he has spoken since his fall on June 5. - PUB DATE: 8/2/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KTUU-TV NBC 2 Anchorage
A Stop & Shop in Dobbs Ferry is under fire after being accused of not giving out water to firefighters battling a blaze across the street from the store.
The firefighters were allegedly told they had to pay right away and couldn't come back after the fire was out to settle the tab.
In a published letter by a former fire chief, he said the firefighters asked for several cases of water for which the store could later bill them. - PUB DATE: 8/2/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: News 12 Westchester
VIDEO - A near-tragedy avoided thanks to the quick actions of the Florence Fire Department on Sunday. A video shows a man and his dog trapped in an SUV as rushing water filled a creek bed. The man tells 11 News he was adjusting flow valves for irrigation ditches when the water hit.
"I looked down and I had 6 inches of water on my feet, and I looked up and all I seen was logs and water coming at me," explained David Rooks. - PUB DATE: 8/2/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KKTV-TV CBS 11 Colorado Springs
A retired New Jersey firefighter will receive full honors as a line-of-duty death after succumbing to injuries he sustained 24 years earlier.
Former Perth Amboy firefighter Richard W. Leonard, 70, died Sunday from complications of toxic smoke he inhaled while battling a fire on April 19, 1993. Leonard was operating a pumper on State Street in Perth Amboy during efforts to contain a blaze at a plastics recycling facility and spent hours taking in the smoke and fumes without any breathing equipment. - PUB DATE: 8/1/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Firehouse
Lack of training, command presence and a failure to appreciate an extremely hazardous situation severely sickened and almost killed a firefighter trying to save three utility workers who were overcome by toxic fumes in a drainage hole 15 feet beneath a Key Largo street in January.
Those workers died, and Key Largo Volunteer Fire Department firefighter Leonardo Moreno almost became the fourth fatality as he, too, was immediately hit with a deadly mixture of high levels of hydrogen sulfide and carbon monoxide as he entered the manhole on Long Key Road in the Lake Surprise Estates subdivision the morning of Jan. - PUB DATE: 8/1/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: FlKeysnews.com
A compass that would direct firefighters through unfamiliar and treacherous burning buildings started as a seed of an idea thought up by veteran firefighter Jeff Dykes.
In three years, the Eau Claire fire captain’s idea turned into his own business, Northern Star Fire, which gained international interest and propelled Dykes to the national stage, where today he is one of 100 small-business owners who will participate in a roundtable with President Donald Trump at the White House. - PUB DATE: 8/1/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Eau Claire Leader-Telegram
The chief of the Hopkins Airport fire department was a no-show Monday at a pre-disciplinary hearing that could have led to his firing.
For now, Chief Roosevelt Davis remains in charge of the department while an investigation into his conduct and bogus overtime payments to firefighters continues.
The findings of overtime abuse were uncovered in an internal audit and it was Davis who signed off on the payments. - PUB DATE: 8/1/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WKYC-TV NBC 3 Cleveland
Firefighters in Bethesda, Maryland, are in court after an argument over one firefighter's Confederate flag license plate.
A Montgomery County firefighter with 10 years service says he spoke out against racism after seeing a fellow firefighter had the flag affixed to the front of his pickup truck.
Fellow firefighters say in court documents requesting protective orders that the firefighter, Idris Debruhl, threatened them. - PUB DATE: 8/1/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: NBC Washington
Frank Doolittle leans against the rack of helmets, coats, coveralls and boots along the wall in the Summitville firehouse. The simple building sits along a flat stretch of Route 209 about eight miles south of Ellenville.
Doolittle’s bald pate is offset by a bristly, brown beard that juts from his chin. - PUB DATE: 8/1/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Middletown Times Herald-Record
He enjoyed coming to work every day, loved the comradery of the fire house, and preferred to stay with a busy company even as his seniority might have allowed him to go elsewhere.
Detroit Firefighter Kevin Ramsey, a 20-year veteran, was a Detroit boy, raised on the east side, and had a sense pride, a feeling of obligation to contribute to his community. - PUB DATE: 7/31/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: MLive.com
Cops versus firefighters is one of the oldest rivalries in the books.
When it comes to overtime between the two public safety agencies in Trenton, that’s a feud that’s been brewing the past few years.
For the city’s fiscal year 2017 that ended on June 30, the fire department spent $1.04 million more than police in overtime, according to budget documents obtained by The Trentonian through a public records request. - PUB DATE: 7/31/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Trentonian
A four-vehicle accident in Hood County Saturday afternoon left seven people injured including three firefighters.
Hood County Fire Marshal Ray Wilson confirmed the injuries in the accident along Highway 51, and he says they are all doing okay. Two people including a female firefighter from the North Hood County Fire Department were transported hospitals via air ambulance. - PUB DATE: 7/31/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: CBS Dallas/Fort Worth
