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Active and retired firefighters from North Attleboro and Foxborough sprang into action to help a man suffering a medical emergency mid-flight [...]
Columbia-Richland Chaplain Billie Lee Bright died from COVID, and Battalion Chief Joseph Casey Desso died following a brief illness [...]
Using social media to research potential firefighter candidates could cause problems for your department [...]
An Eagle Pass Fire Department FF-EMT was killed, and an EMT sitting in the passenger seat of the rig was flown to a local hospital with serious injuries [...]
Liberty Fire Co. Chief Steven Miller faces felony charges related to embezzlement, yet new questions, concerns emerge about FD finances [...]
The family of a man who died in 2019 has filed suit against Miami-Dade Fire Rescue and three firefighter-paramedics accusing them of negligence and deliberate-indifference arising out of their slow response and failure to initiate medical treatment. Diana Cluff and Jacqueline Beaz filed suit accusing the medics of delaying their response, falsifying reports, and failing to attempt to resuscitate their father, Gustavo Beaz. [...]
A paramedic for the St. Louis Fire Department has prevailed in her appeal of a 15-day disciplinary suspension. Elizabeth Smith received the suspension in 2018 over problems with documentation associated with her request for leave under the Family Medical Leave Act. [...]
A US District Court judge in Ohio has brought an end to a three-year battle between the mother of a man who died in a 2017 car accident, a township police department, and several area fire departments. LeLonne Tucker filed a $20 million lawsuit alleging that a police chase caused the wreck, and negligence by the fire department resulted in her son’s body going unnoticed in the vehicle for eight hours. [...]
A California fire chief who was fired last year over public statements he made, has filed suit alleging wrongful termination, whistleblower retaliation, and violation of his civil rights. Manhattan Beach Fire Chief Daryn Drum was fired by city manager Bruce Moe following two sets of public comments that Moe said “do not reflect our core values as a City.” [...]
A Kentucky medic has filed suit claiming she was forced to resign after she complained about sexual harassment, and that the fire department violated the Americans With Disabilities Act and the Family Medical Leave Act. Jamie Keith filed suit against Pleasure Ridge Park Fire Department. [...]
The National Institutes of Health announced Wednesday that it was awarding nearly $470 million to New York University Langone Health for research into the long-term effects of COVID-19 to ramp up an unprecedented national effort to study so-called "long COVID." The federal money will be divvied up by NYU to fund more than 100 researchers at institutions around the country, accelerating work to build a sweeping "meta-cohort" encompassing thousands COVID-19 survivors of various ages and backgrounds who are still experiencing symptoms more than a month after their initial infection. - PUB DATE: 9/16/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: CBS News [...]
A Los Angeles Fire Department captain severely burned in a May 2020 explosion inside a downtown L.A. warehouse has sued the owners of the building and a vaping supply shop housed there, accusing them of hazardous activity, premise liability and negligence. Victor Aguirre and his wife, Claudia Aguirre, filed suit Wednesday in Los Angeles County Superior Court against property owner Steve Sungho Lee and his various companies along with the operators of Green Buddha and Smoke Tokes, a smoke and vape shop inside the East 3rd Street warehouse where the explosion occurred. - PUB DATE: 9/16/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE:… [...]
General Motors is advising some Chevrolet Bolt owners to not park their electric cars within 50 feet of other vehicles to reduce the risk of a potential fire spreading to nearby cars and trucks. The warning follows the Detroit automaker recalling more than 140,000 of the EVs produced since 2016 due to the risk of batteries spontaneously catching fire from “two rare manufacturing defects. - PUB DATE: 9/16/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: CNBC [...]
VIDEO: For the first time since their heroic act was caught on camera, Wichita firefighters spoke with KSN News about their Labor Day fire rescue at an area apartment complex. Fireman Brian Doffing says apartment fires like this don’t always end with the best results for victims, but being able to rescue everyone made this one of the types of calls is exactly what makes their job worth it. - PUB DATE: 9/16/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KSNW-TV NBC 3 Wichita [...]
VIDEO: Nearly two dozen families were forced from their homes early Thursday after a fire spread through a Northeast Dallas apartment building, firefighters say. Dallas Fire-Rescue spokesman Jason Evans said firefighters were first called at 12:50 a.m. to the Oak Meadows Apartments located at 11050 Woodmeadow Parkway. - PUB DATE: 9/16/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KXAS-TV NBC 5 Fort Worth [...]
Madison station 2 was funded and built in the mid 1950's by a citizen group called the "Fire Protective League, Inc.". This group wanted fire protective services on the North end of the community, and after a levy failed[...]