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McDonald Green Volunteer Fire Department Chief Francis Ghent’s post suggested police should stop responding to Black neighborhoods
The bill would allow nurses and physician assistants to serve as volunteers and perform the same work as EMTs
Assistant Fire Chief Donald Suggs, 55, was member of Summerville Fire and Rescue Department
55 volunteer firefighters put out a fire set when a flare was dropped in a groundhog hole to eradicate the creature
Fire chief says there has been no wrong doing and the audit will bear that out
Police found 37 ounces of marijuana at chief’s house
The teenager, killed by an intoxicated motorist in 2010, served on the South Claiborne Volunteer Fire Department
The former volunteer firefighter was accused of setting dozens of fires but plead to eight counts
Fire chief says he does not have enough bunker gear for all 200 firefighters
Uproar began with firefighter’s complaint that local Sonic restaurant refused him discount
The battery-powered toy was too severely burned to identified its maker, boy had burns on 70 percent of his body
Nearly all of the money to buy a new brush truck came from private and business donors
Volunteers make up 85 percent of the class
The firefighter is alert and speaking to friends and family
The hiring will allow the fire department to reopen one of its fire stations
The volunteer fire chief said he joined the fire service 34 years ago ‘to make a difference’
1882 Silsby Steamer among the historical pieces on display
Two firefighters sustained minor injuries in a four-alarm blaze with several gunpowder explosions
The report offers different cost-savings proposals including consolidation and automatic mutual aid
Lighting was blamed for the rash of fires Thursday night
644 volunteer fire departments received the annual grants that help buy firefighting equipment
County commissioners decide to allocate funds; town’s residents would have had to pay higher insurance rates
Extraordinary human effort and planning protected London from relentless fire bombings
Dickeyville board approved funding a new apparatus to replace a 24-year-old unit
The firefighter allegedly shot a man in the head in a hotel bar
Rescuers found a firefighter, his wife and daughter after their Cessna crashed in Idaho
Charges include mismanagement of the organization and its funds
Rising fuel and operating costs require fire fee to increase by $25
A small Tenn. town fighting just to exist may have funding stripped from its fire department
Its the families of firefighters around the globe who bear the brunt of their sacrifice
Union has been court-ordered to stop ‘encouraging, sanctioning and supporting a secondary boycott of volunteer fire services’
Firefighter, who joined in his 60s, told his wife how much firefighting meant to him