Firefighting History
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Laura Russell’s first hurricane activation as a paramedic turned into a fight for survival as levees broke and chaos spread
To mark its 100th birthday, Mount Vernon firefighters spent about 150 hours restoring the vintage American LaFrance fire engine
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The Middle Collegiate Church in the East Village burned after a fire spread from a five-story vacant building adjacent to the church
Firefighters across Worcester will hold moment of silence Wednesday in honor of the six firefighters who died in the line of duty battling the warehouse blaze on Dec. 3, 1999
The family of Capt. Hans Meister, who died days after battling a five-alarm warehouse blaze, plans to ask a judge to compel the FDNY to add his name to its Brooklyn memorial wall
Remember, 20 years from now, future firefighters will want to know what 2020 was like
The late Clayton Fire Marshal Roy Weckherlin’s badge was lost in a restaurant in Florida years ago, and the Florida man who found it spent four years working to return it to its rightful place
The Cameron Peak Fire has burned 256 square miles (more than 163,000 acres), surpassing the previous record set earlier this year by 40 square miles (25,600 acres)
A modern fire sprinkler system now exists throughout the building that sits on the site where the historic blaze killed 92 children and three nuns
Officials had announced a plan to study the department’s safety practices following the 2019 death of Lt. Jason Menard, but say that plan was slowed by the COVID-19 pandemic
The record-shattering fire has killed at least 31 people and destroyed thousands of homes
The engine has been in the Los Angeles County Fire Museum shop since the museum was closed for COVID-19 restrictions
The amount burned this year more than doubles the previous record of 1.67 million acres
The audit found that more than half of the buildings the department is required to inspect each year have gone uninspected for three straight years
Three planes built between 1927 and 1957 will fly five first responders and healthcare professionals in a parade over Washington State landmarks and medical facilities
Reflecting on September 11, years after the tragedy that took so many first responders’ lives
The August Complex reached 471,185 acres on Thursday, surpassing the 2018 Mendocino Complex
From riding the WTC elevators as a kid to responding to Ground Zero and all the connections along the way
Paradise, which was devastated by the deadly 2018 Camp Fire, is under evacuation warning after the Bear Fire exploded to 250,000 acres
This year’s fires surpassed the 1.98-million-acre record set in 2018
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Few significant crackdowns on chemical storage came in the wake of the 2013 West explosion, which killed 12 firefighters
Firefighters must plan the tactical needs for all high-hazard environments in their response area
The settlement will go to the families of 32 of the 36 who died in the 2016 blaze as well as one severely injured survivor
Firefighters were forced to retreat from the interior of the historic building due to falling roofing and debris
Eman Mubarak Brown, 32, faces charges related to malicious injury to real property and attempts to burn
Eman Mubarak Brown, 32, was identified using private surveillance video from a business near the memorial site
The memorial ceremony will be viewable online Tuesday afternoon, on the seventh anniversary of the blaze that killed 19 wildland firefighters
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