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• Baltimore firefighters recall minutes before being rescued from burning home

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  Josh Montague and Rebecca Budnick realize it could have been worse, but that didn't make it any less scary when Montague fell through a burning home's floor

• Mont. firefighter hurt in 40-foot fall: 'I'll be back'

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  Kyle Rauch, 19, was responding to a fatal semi-truck pileup when he fell 40 feet from a bridge

• Firefighters likely save station after quickly dousing apparatus blaze

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  After an alarm alerted the Plymouth Fire Department to a fire in their own building, the three-man crew from Station 5 sprang into action

• Calif. fire captain rescued after nearly falling through roof

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  The unnamed veteran fire captain was already halfway through the roof as his colleagues “put their own safety … to the side” and rescued him

• Ore. firefighters healing from emotional trauma after shooting

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  Springfield Fire Department Battalion Chief Mike Caven said the five firefighters who were ambushed by a gunman at a fire scene are on leave

• Critically hurt firefighter escorted home after rehab

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  Newark firefighter Paul Leber was released to continue recovery at home and was greeted by a crowd of colleagues cheering him on

• FDNY firefighter returns to work after almost losing arm

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  Sean O’Rourke returned to work 15 months after nearly having his arm amputated when an I-beam crushed the fire truck he was driving

• Car crashes into bedroom of house, hits occupied bed

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  Two women and a child were in the car and trying to flee a boyfriend, and the suspect reportedly fled the scene

• FDNY firefighters rescue woman, 3 children from underneath fallen tree

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  FDNY said the woman was pushing a stroller with two children inside and holding an infant when the Central Park tree fell on them

• Crane in danger of collapse at Oakland construction fire

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  Fire Chief Darin White said several hundred people living in nearby buildings were evacuated and some neighboring buildings had heat damage

• St. Louis firefighter injured after falling through roof

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  The fire captain sustained first and second-degree burns on his face and hands and is recovering in the hospital

• Mayday: NJ firefighter rescued after falling through floor

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  Crews were ordered out of the house due to unsafe conditions

• Video: Backdraft that injured 2 firefighters caught on camera

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  Surveillance footage captured the moment where firefighters were knocked back as they prepared to enter the home

• Off-duty FDNY fire capt. saves man from burning car

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  Captain Circo Napolitano was driving through Georgia with his wife when the crash unfolded in front of them

• FDNY firefighter makes daring rope rescue in fatal blaze

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  Firefighter Jim Lee said the rope that colleagues had used to drop him from the roof burned through just 15 seconds after he touched the ground

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