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SANTA FE, N.M. — Video footage shows a drunk driver flooring the gas pedal to evade police — but going nowhere, thanks to firefighters. Firefighters in New Mexico ...
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By Erin Hicks FireRescue1 StaffPelican Products showed off two of their newest products at Fire-Rescue International in Chicago. Introduced to the market four months ago, the 9410 ...
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By Bill Bird The Naperville Sun via The Chicago Sun TimesNAPERVILLE, Ill. — Everybody's heard of the firefighters who rescued the cat from the tree.This is the story of the ...
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By Greg FrieseFirefighters use portable generators for extrication equipment, scene lighting, ventilation, communications, and even rehab functions. To learn more about portable ...
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By Darrell R. Santschi The Press EnterpriseSAN BERNARDINO COUNTY, Calif. — Two years ago this month, Wrightwood firefighter Earl Meredith joined in the grim search for one of ...
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By Scott M. Bruner FireRescue1 Product Editor Extrication may be a very dynamic field, with the latest techniques for getting into the most recent models of automobiles constantly ...
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By Scott M. Bruner FireRescue1 Product EditorChoosing the right tool for the right firefighting job isn’t always the easiest task, but Channellock’s #88 and #89 Rescue ...
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By Trent Spiner The Concord Monitor BOW, N.H. — A smoldering fire at PSNH's main power plant in Bow yesterday morning drew dozens of firefighters from six surrounding ...
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Detached and attached garages have very similar hazards with the exception that in most cases you do not have that exposure problem with a detached garage as you do with the ...
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My crew was sent out last week to a third alarm fire in a single family, two story wood frame dwelling. We were second due on a self-vented fire on the second floor of an L-shaped ...
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By Firefighter Nicholas Martin As most firefighting operations — suppression, rescue, etc. — cannot begin until we gain entry to the structure, forcible entry is an ...
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The Associated PressCHICAGO — Service along the Chicago Transit Authority's Blue Line was disrupted for three hours Thursday morning after a car jumped a retaining wall, ...
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By Matt Hanley Beacon News via The Chicago Sun TimesAURORA, Ill. — A Comcast cable employee suffered leg injuries Monday when he fell from a ladder and was ...
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By Fran Spielman The Chicago Sun-TimesCHICAGO — Two years ago, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security released a blistering report suggesting that first responders in ...
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SOLON, Ohio — Solon Fire Battalion Chief Steve Nash and his business partner John Moore have developed a new compass for firefighters that is the first product to go thru the ...
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The Ann Arbor NewsANN ARBOR, Mich. — Dennis Carmichael had just spoken in Detroit about his inventory-tracking technology for auto suppliers a few years ago when a fire ...
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By Dave Davies The Philadelphia Daily NewsPHILADELPHIA — Infuriated by the New Year's Day death of a woman who waited more than an hour for a Fire Department ambulance, City ...
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ScienceDaily LAS VEGAS — A Las Vegas business and Oak Ridge National Laboratory are improving the odds for people medically at risk from dehydration or congestive heart failure. ...
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Firefighters are wrapping up seven weeks of training to perform rescues at crash scenes that involve trucks and heavy construction equipment, inspired, in part, by the ...
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A school bus taking N.Y high school students and three school staff members to a field trip smashed into the back of a dump truck in the Town of Batavia, leaving three people in ...
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