Safety
The FireRescue1 safety resource section features fire incident news; tips for how to stay safe on scene and on the roadways; lessons learned from major incidents; videos and podcasts that highlight safety-related topics, such as fireground hazards, mayday incidents, patient interactions and hazmat exposure; the impact of leadership on safety; behavioral health issues; plus analysis from major events.
Firefighter Joseph Johns served with the Eagan and Eden Prairie fire departments
DEA proposal would make marijuana a Schedule III drug but not make it legal for recreational use
Drivers honking horns, neighbors banging on doors get the attention of firefighters as Huntington Park firehouse burns
The retired locksmith selling the keys agreed to stop selling
The department said it would help residents with being more aware of emergency procedures
The Tyne and Wear Fire and Rescue Service was one of the first on the scene at the plane crash that killed 19
Lt. John Grabowski was found collapsed in the parking lot of his second job
Firefighter Alan Soard was at a fire service water rescue training course when he fell ill
A firefighter died when he fell through a structurally weak roof while not wearing his facepiece
A contestant in a skateboarding race says a deer just started running towards him
The Russian truck was presumably on its way to a call when it collides with a car that pulls in front of it
Now city officials are vowing to close a dangerous law loophole that allowed a locksmith to sell those keys legally
The N.Y. woman faces manslaughter charges for setting the blaze that also injured a 4-year-old child
The weekend ceremony added the names of the 18 fallen firefighters to the Ontario Firefighters Memorial
Investigators believe the firefighter who died was burned to death as he was connecting a water supply when the explosion occured
The firefighters were responding to a fire in her apartment when she threw the grease at them
Two medics and a pilot were critically injured while traveling to pick up a patient
Visiting Belgian firefighters were observing the Detroit crews when a roof collapsed
35 other EMS personnel are believed to have also been injured in the blast
They learned how to suppress a fire, turn off a gas line and set up a triage
The Temprano Fire broke out Sunday and has damaged or destroyed up to five homes
An off-duty firefighter noticed a 9-year-old boy trying wave down help after his sister and friend were sucked into the drainage system
The child was playing with a lighter, by the time firefighters arrived half the home was burned
Mom said she was transferred, put on hold and told ‘they couldn’t find the EMS for my son’
Jonathan Cory Brown was the driver of the ambulance that pulled in front of a tractor-trailer causing an accident that killed EMT Belinda River
Officials say the death of Firefighter Ewan Williamson “raises fundamental issues as to the approach to firefighting”
A man charged with drunk driving allegedly drove in his neighbors home, trapping the women
Firefighter Justin E. Townsend was riding in the passenger seat of a pickup truck that lost control
IAFC finds short-term funding solution, but warns site may experience problems
The suspect allegedly started a fire in the school’s boy’s bathroom forcing an evacuation
After unsuccessful attempts to reach the boy from the interior, the teen used a later from the outside to save the boy
Firefighter Trevor Whittaker hit a deer while riding his ATV without a helmet