The chief of the Forbush Volunteer Fire Department in Yadkinville, N.C., was found dead at his home Tuesday after having responded to an EMS run and fire call earlier in the day. He was 61.
The firefighters with the Frederica, Delaware, Volunteer Fire Company have taken delivery of a new pumper tanker built on a Spartan cab and tandem axle chassis. The Gladiator LFD model cab has seating for six and a 10-inch raised roof with a 24-inch...
A former Peterborough firefighter and EMT will be on trial next month for allegedly setting fire to occupied apartment buildings rented by University of New Hampshire students.
Rincon Valley firefighters say they want out of a now three-year effort to share their administration with Windsor firefighters, a joint operation they contend lacks leadership and has been a demoralizing failure for their department.
A 16-year-old girl was found dead after a house fire in southeast Albuquerque. A search and rescue operation discovered the girl's body in the room where the fire started.
An after-hours fire at the Whitehall post office damaged some of the packages at the facility. Dozens of parcels were potentially affected by smoke and water used to put the fire out.
Charlotte announced it has hired a second consultant to review the fire department at a cost of just under $90,000. The city is investigating whether the department retaliated against a former employee for acting as a whistleblower.
Luzerne County dispatchers sent an ambulance to the wrong town for a man suffering a heart attack early Thanksgiving morning who later died. The same dispatch center sent fire crews to the wrong address fore a house fire that killed a woman.
A former New Point volunteer firefighter is facing multiple felony theft charges amid allegations he stole fire department equipment, charged gas to the department's account and pilfered tools from various county residents.
Nearly a full decade after Peabody firefighter John Brophy fell asleep during a shift as a dispatcher, missing a 911 call about a 6-month-old baby who had stopped breathing, the man dubbed by some "the dozing dispatcher" was back in court Tuesday.
Deputy Chief James McGloughlin has become the sixth Hartford firefighter placed on paid administrative leave since November. His leave began Dec. 10 and officials aren't saying why.
A “mayday call” was made during a fire in Riverdale, a Chicago suburb, and four firefighters were hospitalized during the extra-alarm blaze that damaged a condominium building.
A Temple Fire Company firefighter was treated in Reading Hospital for an ankle injury sustained while fighting a fire in a seven-unit apartment building that displaced 13 people.
State Supreme Court Justice Frank Caruso has refused a request from the City of Lockport to bar state arbitration over the city's reduction in minimum staffing levels in the Fire Department.
Two suspects in the suspected arson at the Yemassee Fire Department, who were volunteer firefighters, have been charged in connection with several other area arsons.
The Round Lake Fire Department was dispatched to the Meyer Turkey Farm in Lorain Township for a blaze that's believed to have been triggered by an electrical problem. The fire killed thousands of turkeys and destroyed the barn in which they were...
A 911 caller reported the captain in a department SUV appeared to be drunk and was having sex with a woman early Thanksgiving Day on a road that lead to the callers hunting camp.
As Lebanon faces possible repossession of one of its two ambulances, Frisbie Memorial Hospital and some neighboring towns are imposing a fee on Lebanon, for times when the rescue department is unable to respond in its own town.
Firefighters with the Mill Spring, N.C., Fire Department have put in service a commercial pumper built by KME Fire Apparatus on an International cab and chassis.
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