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'Stay or Go' – Australian approaches to wildfire - 04/24/2008
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 The 1983 Ash Wednesday Fires destroyed about 2,300 houses and shops and resulted in 83 deaths in the states of Victoria and South Australia. Following the fires, there were several studies that ...
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Colo. LODDs first in wildfire since 2002 - 04/17/2008
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 John Schwartz became a volunteer firefighter about five weeks ago, seeing an opportunity to go from fixing neighbors' cars and trucks to being an even bigger help.
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FireRescue1's Full Coverage of FDIC 2008 - 04/09/2008
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 With more than 340,000 square feet of exhibition space, fire service shows don't come any bigger than FDIC. But it wasn't just about the exhibits, of which there were hundreds.
Leading ...
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N.C. mourns lost firefighters - 03/11/2008
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A black cloth covered Salisbury's memorial for fallen firefighters Thursday.
Men dressed in white gloves and dark uniforms stood outside the funeral home where the bodies of firefighters ...
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Charleston Fire Department: Up from the ashes - 03/07/2008
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 At the Charleston Fire Department, crews try on state-of-the-art air packs and test heat-seeking cameras. Firefighters train on larger diameter hoses and inspect a newly arrived fire engine.
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Tapes capture chaos of Fla. Wendy's shooting - 03/05/2008
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Recordings of 911 calls made as a gunman rampaged through a fast-food restaurant capture the screams, moans and banging that ensued after he killed a firefighter-paramedic at the counter and ...
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Gas suspected in Ill. plaza explosion - 02/29/2008
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 Some shop owners smelled gas for the last couple of days at a shopping plaza rocked by an explosion that injured at least eight people and rattled nearby buildings, authorities said.
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Report: Drugs, alcohol not factors in Boston LODDs - 02/22/2008
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 One of the two firefighters who died in an August restaurant blaze in West Roxbury entered the burning kitchen with neither his face mask, which was found on a table, nor his radio, which was ...
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New report outlines rural fire danger - 02/07/2008
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 The NFPA and USFA unveiled new measures Tuesday to reduce the high number of fire deaths in rural areas in the United States.
Communities with fewer than 2,500 residents have nearly twice ...
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American LaFrance: What Does the Future Hold? - 01/29/2008
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 You don't get to be one of the oldest fire apparatus manufacturers around without having strength in the face of adversity.
But American LaFrance seems to be facing its toughest challenge ...
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Fla. rookie recovers from life-threatening injuries - 01/24/2008
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 Rookie firefighter Shawn Hall's pulse pounded with anticipation as Engine 51 rushed toward a mobile home blaze. But as the engine drove through an intersection, Hall saw another truck shooting ...
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Racial tensions shake up St. Louis Fire Department - 01/18/2008
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 Since black Fire Chief Sherman George was demoted in October, the FBI has investigated two incidents inside engine houses that were reported as possible hate crimes, one involving a stuffed monkey ...
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Safety tool rescues N.Y. firefighter - 01/02/2008
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 Nearly three years after two New York City firefighters jumped from a burning building and plunged to their deaths, a 24-year FDNY veteran yesterday became the first to use a widely hailed safety ...
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Bell tolls on final midnight Mass at ground zero - 12/26/2007
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 The first midnight Mass at ground zero was celebrated as workers were still clearing debris from the World Trade Center and recovering bodies after the September 11 terrorist attacks.
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Plan to downplay Charleston fire probe revealed - 12/10/2007
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 Gov. Mark Sanford's office and state workplace officials consulted on a plan to minimize publicity surrounding the results of an investigation into Charleston's deadly Sofa Super Store fire, ...
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Denver area firefighters burn the fat - 11/30/2007
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 Just under 10 years ago, a Denver fire department was facing the fat.
Forty-three of its 240 firefighters measured clinically obese and nine were morbidly obese. Twenty-five percent of ...
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Baltimore fire chief announces resignation - 11/15/2007
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 Baltimore Fire Chief William J. Goodwin Jr., hailed for his early leadership but increasingly under pressure after a fatal training accident this year, has resigned.
It ended months of ...
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Dozens hurt in Chicago train collision - 11/03/2007
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 Most of the 187 passengers aboard the Amtrak train walked away unhurt after the accident on the city's South Side, which catapulted people from their seats. Four people had to be pulled from ...
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S.C. firefighters remember fatal beach house blaze - 11/01/2007
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 Fire Chief Robert Yoho awoke Sunday morning to an unwelcome sound.
"I heard all of these tones and I wondered, 'What is this?'" he said Tuesday. "At first I thought it was a mistake."
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Californians mull next step after fires - 10/23/2007
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 A week after a half million people fled Southern California's wildfires, shelters began closing and residents were figuring out what to do next even as firefighters kept a wary eye on the possibility ...
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FEMA draws own disaster plans - 10/15/2007
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 The Federal Emergency Management Agency is quietly drawing up plans for a handful of disasters: devastating earthquakes beneath San Francisco and St. Louis and catastrophic storms in South Florida ...
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Fire Prevention Week:
What you can do - 10/03/2007
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 Departments throughout the nation are reaching out to their communities to spread the fire prevention message in a variety of ways, including open houses and school visits.
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Chief responds to scandals at D.C. fire stations - 09/06/2007
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 D.C. fire officials said Tuesday that an investigation into reports of a prostitution ring operating out of some of the city's firehouses has also yielded three reports of employees being ...
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USFA releases annual report on firefighter deaths - 08/16/2007
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 An annual report released Tuesday by the United States Fire Administration says most 2006 firefighter fatalities were caused by heart attacks. According to the report, out of the total 106 deaths, ...
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Several killed in Minneapolis bridge collapse - 08/02/2007
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 The eight-lane Interstate 35W bridge, a major Minneapolis artery, was in the midst of being repaired and two lanes in each direction were closed when the bridge buckled during evening rush hour ...
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S.C. warehouse fire kills 9 firefighters - 06/19/2007
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 Fire swept through a furniture warehouse, collapsing the building's roof and claiming the lives of nine firefighters in a disaster Charleston's mayor described Tuesday as "difficult to fathom ...
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LAFD takes steps to improve patient medical care - 06/01/2007
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 Los Angeles fire officials have launched an effort to improve patient care among medics and boost compliance with state laws requiring that serious problems be reported to regulators.
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FDIC in Review - 04/20/2007
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 The FDIC 2007 in Indianapolis highlighted the latest in training and education techniques as well as the most up-to-date apparatus and gear from companies nationwide. More than 26,000 people ...
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Experts discuss Pa. fire chief's daring maneuver - 04/17/2007
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 A fire chief's daring maneuver to drive an aerial truck while firefighters were still aloft in the bucket has prompted much debate among experts. FireRescue1 columnists and Billy Goldfeder, from ...
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Safety officers denied on-duty death benefits - 03/22/2007
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 More than three years after President Bush signed a law granting federal benefits to families of firefighters, police officers and EMTs who die of heart attacks and strokes on the job, not a ...
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Volunteer firefighters die in fatal W. Va. blast - 02/01/2007
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 Four people are dead after a gas station explosion rocked Ghent, W. Va. Two of the dead were volunteer firefighters who responded when suspicions of a gas leak were called in. Several people ...
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Flames continue to pour from derailed train in Ky. - 01/18/2007
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 Thick, billowing smoke and flames continued pouring into the sky from at least one ruptured tanker car on Wednesday, long after a train derailment spilled flammable chemicals, forcing evacuations ...
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2006: A Look Back - 12/28/2006
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 In this special year-end edition of the FireRescue1 News Report, we take a look back over the year that was. As we examine the news and issues that dominated our world, we remember our fallen ...
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More than 3,000 firefighters battle Australia blaze - 12/13/2006
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 Dozens of wildfires burning Tuesday across southern Australia destroyed more than a dozen homes and a popular ski lodge, while residents in a suburb of the western city of Perth were urged to ...
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L.A. fire chief retires amid racial controversy - 12/01/2006
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 Los Angeles' fire chief announced his retirement Friday amid a racially charged furor involving a black firefighter who was served spaghetti mixed with dog food. In a letter to the mayor and ...
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Lessons Learned at 2006 FireRescue Expo - 11/09/2006
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 The 2006 FireRescue Conference & Expo kicked off officially on Thursday with a full agenda of educational sessions and the opening of the exhibit hall at the Las Vegas Convention Center. Click ...
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Family, friends mourn Baltimore firefighter - 10/17/2006
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 Members of the Baltimore Fire Dept. carry the casket of fallen firefighter Allan Roberts Oct. 16, 2006 during funeral services held in Baltimore. Roberts, 40, died last week while fighting an ...
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Day Fire defies all efforts in California - 09/29/2006
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 Firefighter Mike Stout was working another small blaze on Labor Day when the Day fire began as a few wisps of smoke in the Los Padres National Forest. He was there 11 days later when the fast-growing ...
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Nation marks 9/11 fifth anniversary - 09/11/2006
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 Five years after terrorists wrought death from clear skies, the nation began its observation of a solemn anniversary Monday, with plans for silent reflection and fresh mourning for the nearly ...
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Plot to blow up U.S.-bound planes foiled - 08/10/2006
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 British authorities said today they had thwarted a terrorist plot to simultaneously blow up several aircraft heading to the U.S. using explosives smuggled in hand luggage, averting what police ...
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Stand down focuses on vehicle safety - 06/20/2006
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 Thousands of fire departments across the United States and Canada began the 2006 International Firefighter Safety Stand Down June 21. Last year, 26 of the 106 U.S. firefighter line-of-duty deaths ...
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Denver firefighters average 1.13 injuries a day - 05/17/2006
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 Denver firefighters suffered 828 on-the-job injuries the past two years — an average of more than one a day — but the vast majority of incidents were minor compared with those of the past week, ...
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Number of U.S. volunteer firefighters declining - 11/07/2005
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The volunteer fire company, an institution that dates to Ben Franklin, is slowly going the way of the horse-drawn pumper. Though emergency calls are up, the number of volunteer firefighters has ...
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Florida picks up the pieces - 10/21/2005
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Hurricane Wilma, the third major hurricane to hit the U.S. in 2005, touched down in Florida after ravaging parts of Mexico. President Bush declared Florida a major disaster area.
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Chief Dave Paulison takes over FEMA top spot - 08/30/2005
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Following the botched response to Hurricane Katrina, there has been a shake-up within FEMA. Former head Michael Brown resigned and former IAFC president R. David Paulison, above, took over as ...
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Charleston Mayor Joe Riley has reversed his decision to withhold a highly anticipated report on the deadly June 18 Sofa Super Store fire. The document will be released May 15, he said Tuesday ...
The supervisor of a firefighting crew that lost four members in a 2001 wildfire pleaded guilty to misdemeanors Tuesday under an agreement that dropped manslaughter and other felony charges against ...
A team of consultants investigating the deaths of nine Charleston firefighters at the Sofa Super Store plans to release its report in two weeks, the head of the panel said Thursday.
Old fire training tapes that have surfaced stand as a symbol of the division and distance between Charleston officials and the union that represents about half of the city's firefighters.
Steps to prevent catastrophic wildfires in the Lake Tahoe basin have been hampered for years by bureaucratic infighting according to documents reviewed by The Associated Press.
The Atlanta Fire Department had little warning of the first tornado to hit the city's downtown in recorded history — eight minutes to be exact.
The nation's drive toward alternative fuels carries a danger many communities have been to slow to recognize: Ethanol fires are harder to put out than gasoline ones and require a special type ...
At a fire that killed five in Barre, Vt., in 2005, there was something peculiar: the apartment had a working smoke detector, but it wasn't sounding its alarm. 
The Scranton fire department and an electrical utility had a breakdown in communication prior to the death of veteran firefighter Capt. James Robeson, who was electrocuted Sunday, an official ...
Hundreds of firefighters formed an honor guard as the bodies of three of their colleagues were retrieved from a burnt-out warehouse.
The nation's worsening fire seasons are, in part, a consequence of global warming and are likely to get more severe unless forest managers step up tree removal efforts and prescribed fire programs, ...
State regulators fined the Charleston Fire Department and a furniture store Thursday for violating safety standards in a blaze that killed nine firefighters.
A Mass. fire chief, who complained of inadequate staffing of his fire house, was reprimanded by his city in disciplinary city.
Six years after the Sept. 11 attacks, the number of first responders and workers who are ill and are seeking monitoring and treatment continues to rise, a trend that surprises the medical professionals ...
Fire broke out inside a Boston restaurant, killing two firefighters and injuring 11 others who became disoriented in the dense smoke, officials said Thursday
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Tuesday defended the decision to send dozens of firefighters into a blaze that killed two of them in a vacant tower next to the World Trade Center site
N.J. volunteer firefighters can consume alcoholic beverages in municipal firehouses, but only with the city manager's approval.
Some question whether or not improved dispatch capabilities may have prevented the deaths of two Calif. firefighters and the occupants of the home they were trying to save.
Fire service leaders are demanding a probe into the delivery of benefits to the families of fallen firefighters.
Mayor Sheila Dixon asked the city's inspector general yesterday to investigate allegations that members of the Fire Department cheated on recent captains' and lieutenants' promotion exams.
A fast-moving wildfire in northeast Utah has burned more than 47 square miles, but some progress had been made with more firefighters on hand and calmer winds, a fire official said Monday
Chicago is free to hire new firefighters from the list generated by the city's first firefighters entrance exam in more than a decade, thanks to the latest chapter in a marathon legal battle.
The story of five wildland firefighters who died trying to protect a home in a Southern California mountain community will be incorporated into future wildfire training materials, according to ...
Some of the first responders who were exposed to the cocktail of toxins produced at Ground Zero are developing a form of cancer often seen in much older people in what one doctor calls the "third ...
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Over the past few weeks several states - including Georgia, California, Minnesota and Florida - have erupted in wildfire. Dry winter conditions and a continued lack of precipitation for the beginning ...
A tornado tore through Kansas, destroying more than 90 percent of Greensburg. Rescue teams are still arriving to help with the recovery effort.
The federal agency that investigates firefighter deaths has pledged to increase its analyses of information on fatalities.
Every year in the United States, about 100 firefighters die in the line of duty, but most aren't killed by smoke, flames or collapsing buildings.
Fire departments across California are struggling to fill open paramedic positions because of a state-wide lack of suitable candidates.
Efforts to reduce firefighter fatalities were stepped up at the weekend as fire service leaders met to refine the national safety blueprint.
Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon announced a posthumous promotion yesterday for city Fire Apprentice Racheal M. Wilson, who was killed Feb. 9 in a flawed live-fire training exercise. Mayor Dixon ...
Treatment plans will be developed for rescue workers with 9/11-related illnesses over the next two years, according to a new strategic plan released by New York Fire Department.
Incidents of firefighters dying all over the nation prompt safety officials to look into the effectiveness of gear that should be saving lives rather than leaving rescuers guessing.
Controversy surfaced in Chicago over whether $10 million of turnout gear was safe after a piece of hot metal burned a hole in the material while in use by a firefighter. Union officials — ...
After a federal agency looks into the state of preparedness for U.S. cities, officials say only six of 75 major metropolitan areas are ready for emergencies.
As investigators sifted through the rubble of a group home where a fire killed 10 people, questions were raised about why a convicted felon was hired as the operators' executive director, what ...
DEVORE, Calif. — High in the mountain pass that divides Southern California's fire-prone slopes from the Mojave Desert, the nation's firefighting community on Sunday somberly honored the five ...
POPPET FLAT, Calif. — Fire crews struggled to protect homes from a wind-whipped wildfire that trapped and killed five firefighters as it raced through Southern California mountains.
New York Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle was presumed killed along with a second person Wednesday when his small plane crashed into a 50-story skyscraper, authorities said.
As is has been across the country this month, honoring the victims and heroes of 9/11 was a prominent theme at Fire-Rescue International 2006. The IAFC’s annual expo, held this year at the Dallas ...
A rookie New York City firefighter who served with the U.S. Marines in Iraq and a veteran lieutenant were killed after a group of firefighters fell through the floor of a burning Bronx building, ...
NEW YORK — Gov. George Pataki signed legislation Monday to greatly expand benefits for workers who have died or become sick from toiling in the smoke and dust that hung over the ruins of the ...
Sen. Conrad Burns is reeling from the political damage he caused his re-election efforts after berating members of a Hotshot firefighting crew last month. Burns was already one the most vulnerable ...
A survey of 183 American cities paints a grim picture of the nation's disaster preparedness nearly five years after the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, and nearly one year after Hurricane ...
Rising temperatures throughout the West have stoked an increase in large wildfires over the past 34 years as spring comes earlier, mountain snows melt sooner and forests dry to tinder, scientists ...
As usual, the Fourth of July holiday weekend was a busy one for firefighters across the country. Some battled grass and structure fires started by fireworks while others worked to prevent fireworks-related ...
Two additional D.C. fire department employees were suspended yesterday in connection with the inadequate response to the fatal beating of New York Times journalist David E. Rosenbaum in January. ...
Suzanne Oelschlager knelt beside her daughters, Kayla and Brittany, and pressed a white piece of paper against the first memorial in lower Manhattan dedicated to the memory of 343 firefighters ...
Trapped by furniture and surrounded by thick smoke, a San Antonio firefighter dove through a first-floor window after his breathing equipment failed as he battled an East Side house fire May ...
A growing number of states are pushing to combat the top cause of fire deaths by requiring tobacco companies to sell only "fire-safe" cigarettes, which go out more quickly if left unattended
The worst fire in New York in more than a decade was burning on the Brooklyn waterfront last night. The suspicious, ten-alarm blaze destroyed seven Greenpoint warehouses and involved more than ...
San Francisco’s fire community and thousands of revelers gathered before dawn on April 18 to commemorate the 100-year anniversary of the 1906 earthquake and subsequent fire that destroyed much ...
A committee of Louisiana law-enforcement agencies charged with coordinating what has been deemed top priority in hurricane season preparations — making sure they can talk to one another — has ...
They are the steady voices on the other side of the line, but today, 911 dispatchers, as well as victims' families, may be forced to recall the day when two hijacked airliners brought down the ...
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa sounded an alarm Tuesday about a 21% increase in workers' compensation claims by Los Angeles firefighters, calling for a plan to reduce the numbers of on-duty injuries. ...
In its four decades of existence, Sacramento International Airport has yet to suffer a catastrophic plane fire. But should the day come, officials say they are better equipped than ever. One ...
Santa Ana winds reignited a controlled burn in Orange County, Calif., days after it was thought to be out. The U.S. Forest Service is now footing the multi-million dollar cost of battling the ...
Newsday is featuring broad coverage of the New York City Fire Department's 'Black Sunday' last year. On Jan. 23, 2005, three firefighters died — two jumped to their deaths to avoid ...
