The neighborhood surrounding Kennedy Furniture was quiet for most of yesterday morning until flames and heavy smoke began to pour out of the Kennedy Boulevard business, creating a chaotic scene on the Union City border.
A five-alarm fire tore through the furniture store at the 13th Street intersection sometime around 11:30 a. - PUB DATE: 12/22/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: NJ.com
The Common Council voted Wednesday to ask the Fire Board to allow the city to hire new firefighters who are emergency medical technicians, not more highly trained paramedics.
For many years, Lockport has hired only paramedics to join the Fire Department. However, after the current crop of nine candidates for the department went through agility tests, only one paramedic was left on the eligible list. - PUB DATE: 12/22/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Buffalo News
This market has become a graveyard.
A day ago, families wandered through rows of stalls at San Pablito, searching for fireworks to launch during the holiday season.
Now, forensic teams are combing through the charred rubble of this market north of Mexico City, searching for victims' remains. At least 32 people were killed and dozens more were injured in a massive series of explosions Tuesday, officials said. - PUB DATE: 12/21/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: CNN
The Austin Fire Department this year has seen a spike in crashes involving fire vehicles that has led the agency to enact a new disciplinary system, which has rankled the firefighters union and has already led to more than 20 suspensions in recent months.
Over the past six years, the department has averaged 54 crashes a year involving fire equipment and vehicles. - PUB DATE: 12/21/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Austin American-Statesman
Farrell council voted on Monday for a settlement with their former fire chief, William C. Mortimer Jr., that would allow him to forego possible jail time in exchange for giving up his sick time buyout, the city manager said.
“We allowed him to resign and in exchange we get to keep the money,” City Manager Michael Ceci said. - PUB DATE: 12/21/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Sharon Herald
Lawyers representing Derick Ion Almena, the manager of the Ghost Ship warehouse, say negligence on the part of Oakland city officials was to blame for a fire that killed 36 people this month, and not their client. In a joint statement released Monday, the lawyers said Alameda County officials who are now investigating the blaze have a “conflict of interest” and that Almena will likely be made a scapegoat in the deadly Dec. - PUB DATE: 12/21/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
PHOTO - A driver who ignored a fire hydrant in a south Omaha neighborhood had their windows smashed out by firefighters Sunday. Firefighters were forced to smash the windows of the car parked near South 19th and M streets.
Firefighters had to thread the fire hose through the car to fight the house fire which reportedly displaced a metro family. - PUB DATE: 12/21/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WOWT-TV NBC 6 Omaha
The 2016 Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response grant application is due to open in January. Recently, FEMA released information to assist departments in planning their applications for the upcoming program opening.
These documents revealed several changes to critical sections of the program that may impact departments’ ability to apply for funding and information needed for their application. - PUB DATE: 12/21/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: FireRescue1
Leonard Carmichael Jr., who grew up in North Trenton dreaming of being a Trenton firefighter, has retired as deputy chief, the department's highest uniformed rank.
Carmichael served over 25 years and held every position in the department, having served as acting fire director for 10 months in 2010 - and briefly in 2014. - PUB DATE: 12/20/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Trenton Times
Dundee Volunteer firefighter Ruben E. Mast, 43, of Dundee, died after a traffic crash while reportedly responding to a call out at about 4:59 p.m. Monday.
Mast was transported by Smith Ambulance to Union Hospital in Dover, where he later succumbed to his injuries, according to officers with the New Philadelphia Post of the Ohio Highway Patrol. - PUB DATE: 12/20/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: New Philadelphia Times-Reporter
An 11-month-old girl is out of the hospital and expected to be alright after being rescued by a group of Richmond firefighters Saturday afternoon.
“We're talking literally seconds here from tragedy to triumph,” said Capt. William M. Martin with the Richmond Fire Department.
Engine Company 11 was the first on the scene at Fairfield Court Saturday afternoon. - PUB DATE: 12/20/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WTVR-TV CBS 6
State troopers were investigating two separate crashes on Interstate 85 in Concord overnight, and one of them involved a fire truck.
Concord firefighters were called to a wreck on I-85 northbound, between Bruton Smith Boulevard and Poplar Tent Road, around 1 a.m. While emergency crews were still on the scene, about 45 minutes later, a BMW sideswiped a Concord fire engine that was blocking the three left lanes of the interstate, according to troopers. - PUB DATE: 12/20/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WSOC-TV ABC 9 Charlotte
A federal training facility in Anniston has temporarily suspended all chemical and biological operations, according to a statement given to students who trained there.
The announcement comes as officials investigate a mistake that led to first-responders training with a lethal rather than a non-lethal version of the toxic compound ricin. - PUB DATE: 12/20/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Anniston Star
Retired Elizabeth fire chief Lou Kelly died early Friday after he fell ill while responding to a fire in Clark last week and was rushed to a hospital.
The Elizabeth Firefighters FMBA Local 9 announced Kelly's death on its Facebook page on Friday morning.
Kelly, 70, was serving as a Union County Mutual Aid Coordinator while at the Dec. - PUB DATE: 12/19/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: NJ.com
PHOTO - After firefighters completed a controlled burn training session and left the area, the facility went up in flames.
Smoke and flames engulfed the Crawford Venango Fire School at the corner of Ridge Road and Center Street in Cambridge Springs.
The building caught fire around 3 p.m.
This is a facility where firefighters hold training sessions with live fires mimicking realistic situations. - PUB DATE: 12/19/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WJET/WFXP YourErie.com
PHOTO - Two firefighters were injured and a Sunrise Fire truck was totaled when the truck crashed on slick roads Friday morning.
The crash occurred on State Road MM, and Sunrise Fire Chief Dennis Reilly said the two firefighters sustained only minor injuries, with the most serious being a fracture. Both firefighters are at the hospital. - PUB DATE: 12/19/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: LakeExpo.com
former Lodi fire captain is facing felony charges after allegedly embezzling over $200,000 from the Lodi Professional Firefighters Union he was once the treasurer of, according to court records.
San Joaquin County Court records show Oscar Picazo is facing charges of grand theft, theft of more than $100,000 and take, damage of destroying property over $200,000. - PUB DATE: 12/19/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KXTV-TV ABC 10 Sacramento
The Long Hill Volunteer Fire Department's Santa Fire Truck is a holiday tradition in two.
The truck decorated with thousands of holiday lights makes its rounds around town bringing good will -- and gifts -- to Trumbull children.
Now there's a new view of the fire truck.
It surfaced recently on YouTube. - PUB DATE: 12/19/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Firehouse
Two Kansas City firefighters were taken to the hospital and treated at the scene after being trapped while battling a house fire.
It happened while firefighters were responding to a house fire in the 700 block of Agnes Avenue.
Officials say fire crews were at the tail-end of fighting the fire when a partial roof collapse happened, leaving three firefighters trapped inside the home with burning debris on them. - PUB DATE: 12/16/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KCTV.com
Because of yet another mix-up with bioterror pathogens, a federal terrorism response training center in Alabama says it mistakenly exposed more than 9,600 firefighters, paramedics and other students to a deadly toxin over the past five years.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Center for Domestic Preparedness blames an outside laboratory for a series of shipping errors since 2011 that resulted in the first-responder training center using in its classes a potentially lethal form of ricin powder. - PUB DATE: 12/16/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: USA Today
