Verdine Day, the Detroit Fire Department's “Woman of the Year” in 2019, will spend the next year behind bars for stealing $220,043 from fellow first responders in her union. On Tuesday, May 24, in Detroit, Senior US District Judge George Caram ...
Oregon first responders still aren’t exactly sure how two men fell nearly three stories off Portland’s Northeast 16th Avenue embankment on Saturday, May 14, but the pair kept skidding through blackberry tangles and over rocks and landed in a bad ...
When New York State Police troopers and Evans Mills Fire Department personnel arrived at the crash near the US Army’s Fort Drum on May 7, they saw a woman alone in an SUV, close to drowning. It was 8:50 p.m. and her 2010 Ford Explorer was sinking ...
A hero firefighter drowned trying to save the life of a child and the mother who was trying to kill her by driving her car into a West Virginia waterway. Gassaway Volunteer Fire Department Station No. 2 Firefighter John Forbush, 24, died May 1 in ...
When the emergency responders found him, the 59-year-old Florida man was chin-deep in cold water, two stories down in the pit, and they weren’t exactly sure how they were going to get him out of the quicksand slurping at his neck. Brevard County ...
Reeling from the sudden death of a fellow firefighter, on Thursday Louisville’s Engine Company 22 and Truck 4 received a very rare and beautiful gift of life. A woman rang the doorbell to their station house at 7:15 a.m. on May 12 with a baby in ...
During the Friday, April 29, funeral service at the Church of St. Francis de Sales in Queens, New York City Fire Department Firefighter Vincent Geary told mourners, “No one ever had to worry about Tim.” Firefighter Tim Klein came from a family of ...
It’s not every day that the Brinnon Fire Department and Quilcene Fire Rescue get an emergency call from a woman sinking into the quicksand of poop inside a mountain vault toilet, but April 19 wasn’t like most days. The woman — described as a ...
It’s still sort of a mystery how six New Jersey teenagers fresh from the Rockin’ Jump Trampoline Park in Wayne on Friday got stuck in an exit elevator. But Wayne Fire Department Commissioner William Rodriguez has a pretty good theory. “They've ...
Thanks to a crew of eagle-eyed California firefighters, a man and his 11-year-old son were rescued after they plunged at least 400 feet down a Mariposa County cliff. The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection crew was returning from ...
The ability to kick down a door is one all good Americans should have. An act typically performed by firefighters in emergency situations — or by Marines locked out of their barracks rooms — kicking down a door is one of those things that, if you can ...
The first call Ward Volunteer Fire Department firefighter Dexter Reeves saw on March 3 was to dispatch the engine to a grassland fire along Bunkum Road in the Alabama hamlet. And the second was a request for an ambulance. “Well, when I heard the ...
It’s Tinseltown, so of course, Los Angeles firefighters ran a daring Monday, March 28, rescue to save Scooby after a raging river swept the dog to Gilligan’s Island. In this case, Scooby was a mutt who got trapped in the rushing waters with his ...
Over the past week, a wildfire consumed a missing Oklahoma firefighter; two personnel collapsed in their fire stations; one died in his fire engine; and a truck flipped over and crushed a Missouri EMT on his way to battle a blaze. The five ...
Authorities blamed a heart attack and a two-story tumble for the deaths of firefighters in North Carolina and Delaware. The twin tragedies bring to 25 the number of firefighters killed while on duty so far in 2022, according to the US Fire ...
When it comes to protecting first responders at accident scenes nationwide, brighter isn’t better. A recent study by the Emergency Responder Safety Institute revealed that the light-emitting diode flashers on police cruisers, fire engines, and ...
More than three decades of life lived separated the two firefighters, but both died from medical maladies shortly after battling blazes. The deaths of New York’s Jesse Gerhard, 33, and Alabama’s Larry Harbin, 65, bring to 23 the number of fire ...
Authorities in California and North Carolina blame stress and overexertion for the heart attacks that killed two senior firefighters on Feb. 9. Their deaths bring to 21 the number of firefighters who have died on duty so far in 2022, according to ...
A burning barn exploded in Oregon, killing a volunteer firefighter who'd already insisted his funeral take place at a rodeo arena beloved by bull riders, with free beer flowing for all mourners. And in North Carolina, an apparent heart attack ...
A retired Rhode Island firefighter with a grudge against his old department and local cops faces federal charges for a seven-year online campaign threatening violence against scores of officials. On Wednesday, Feb. 2, US District Court Magistrate ...
A fire captain was gunned down in California. An apparent heart attack killed an assistant chief while he battled a suspected arson fire in New York. They join 11 other firefighters killed in the line of duty so far in 2022, according to the US ...
Washington DC's firefighters will cover the shifts of Baltimore personnel mourning the deaths of three colleagues. The District of Columbia Fire and Emergency Medical Services Department told Coffee or Die Magazine that 50 firefighters, ...
POOLER, Ga. — For at least 10 minutes on Jan. 26, screams drifted along Holly Avenue here. Finally, a neighbor heard them, turned down the TV, and went out to see what all the commotion was about. A construction worker after a long day thought he ...
