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• Maximize apparatus storage with a rotating extrication tool holder

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  New ‘Lazy Susan’ design helps fire crews store more tools in tight spaces without sacrificing quick access

• Training day: Breaching the door

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  Use the tools, props and scenario described here to train your firefighters in effective forcible entry

• 3 Dallas firefighters injured while battling 4-alarm blaze

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  Three Dallas Fire-Rescue firefighters were extricated from a condo apartment building after the second floor collapsed while they were inside

• Mich. firefighters extract woman from crash outside fire station

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  Three Superior Township firefighters were in their station when they heard a crash outside

• How a new hydraulic tool is a game changer for rescue problems

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  Tackle complex calls with confidence using a multipurpose tool that can be used in a variety of scenarios

• Dozens hurt after bus carrying high school students crashes into overpass

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  Six people were seriously injured and 37 suffered minor injuries after a bus carrying students home from a spring break trip to Europe crashed into an overpass

• Firefighters rescue man stuck in printing press

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  The Bridgeport Fire Department was dispatched “to extricate an employee whose left arm became wedged in between two press rollers"

• EMS provider pulls neighbor from burning truck on way home

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  Gretna Rescue Squad 1st Lt. Pernice White jumped into action after seeing her neighbor’s truck on fire while driving home

• Photos: Firefighters rescue boy from arcade claw machine

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  Titusville Fire and Emergency Services Department rescued the boy who climbed into the machine from the back and became trapped

• Woman rescued after colliding with Detroit fire truck

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  The firefighters jumped out of the truck after the crash and extricated the woman from her vehicle

• 'Cracking the egg:' Road crash rescue involving an overturned vehicle

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  This involved technique, while rarely used, can enable rescuers to create enough space to extricate a victim safely

• 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

• 5 times "Jaws of Life" saved a life

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  These stories about Jaws of Life are truly remarkable

• Exclusive: Field amputation difference between life and death

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  EMS, fire and hospital personnel describe interstate collision, patient entrapment and field amputation to save a man pinned inside his truck cab by 80,000 pounds of logs

• Calif. firefighters respond to car crash near fire station

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  Crews ran out to find a mangled car with an injured driver trapped inside

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