The train was carrying several empty tank cars as well as wood, paper products and vehicles when it derailed between the Saint-Basile and the town of Green River.
Legislation to eliminate the current age limit of 45 for new volunteer firefighters was approved this week by the Oklahoma Senate by a vote of 32-13. All it needs is Gov. Mary Fallin's signature to become law.
Brookville Fire Company Fire Department and the Firemen's Club are locked in a court battle and a judge is encouraging them to settle it without further litigation.
Lacey firefighters were called to a scene to rescue a construction worker trapped in a hole when two other workers refused to stop trying to free their trapped colleague and let firefighters do the work.
Firefighters spent hours battling an intense two-alarm blaze that destroyed a business, threatened an adjoining storage building and nearly knocked down power lines Friday afternoon east of downtown Stockton.
A large explosion sent flames more than a hundred feet into the air Friday afternoon at an oil facility north of Karnes City, but no injuries were reported.
A natural gas pipeline explosion at a California sheriff's gun range shot flames well over 100 feet into the air, left 11 people injured and brought traffic on a busy highway to a halt
Five firefighters were hurt and others were injured in fire truck that overturned and hit a tree. An ambulance also reportedly crashed on the way to the fire truck crash.
When the calls first came into the Bloomington Fire Department shortly before 1 a.m. April 7 that a plane was missing, everyone hoped for the best as they headed out to look for aircraft.
After an 85-year-old man behind the wheel of an SUV slammed through the glass storefront of a Fort Lauderdale dry cleaners on Friday morning, eight people were taken to the hospital.
The Wyoming Highway Patrol reports that 40 to 50 commercial vehicles and 20 passenger vehicles were involved in three separate pileups that happened in the eastbound and westbound lanes of Interstate 80 near Cheyenne.
Tears, tradition, applause and standing ovations – the 27th annual Congressional Fire Service Institute’s Fire and Emergency Services Dinner had them all.
A chemical explosion in the Henry B. Eyring building on the University of Utah campus in Salt Lake City caused a small fire, forced the evacuation of two buildings and cancelled classes.
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