Weird News
The weird news topic covers offbeat news about firefighting – all the quirky, unusual news that everyone in the firehouse is going to be talking about.
Utilizing special tools and the prompt assistance of a backhoe, the 24-year-old mare was successfully extricated
Passengers fled the Grand Romance riverboat replica as it burned, before the Vallejo Fire Department brought the flames under control
A 41-year-old firefighter decided to “randomly” play the lottery ahead of his shift, and it paid off – literally
Spencer Cline, 11, said he was inspired by the scene in “A Christmas Story,” in which a boy is dared to put his tongue on a frozen pole
John Harahus picked up the first aid kits from his father, Craig, and called 911 after opening them and finding picric acid inside some of the bandages
A group mainly consisting of firefighters and EMTs use their off-duty time to respond to “paramergencies”
Firefighters in China shared footage of a crew saving a man whose arm became deeply stuck inside a pasta machine as he was trying to retrieve dough
Officials said rescuers tried cooking oil to free the bear, but that didn’t work, so they drilled three holes in the can so the panting bear could breathe
Photos from the scene show a vehicle tipped on its side and the long crane splitting the roof of a home
Jessie, a parrot, had spent three days on a neighbor’s roof and greeted firefighters trying to rescue her with a tirade of four-letter words
Authorities say a man broke into a Kinloch firehouse, ate a tub of ice cream, took a shower and stalked the building with a butcher knife
Andrew Radziewicz said he has regularly seen paranormal phenomena, including strange encounters at his fire station
A rescue crew scrambled to save the man who had somehow climbed on top of the 45-foot post
The firefighters had to “gently chip” a piece of stone away after the boy tried to crawl through the statue and got his head stuck
The fire chief told the news station it was actually the second time the woman had put her head in the diesel truck’s tailpipe that day
Renee Roth was dog-sitting her son’s 180-pound pet when he jumped through the upstairs window and became stranded on the roof
“Crews used water streams near the alligator to encourage it to move out of the roadway,” the Houston County Fire Department said
The float is supposed to shoot a small burst of flames from it’s mouth, but the dragon’s head became engulfed in fire
A raccoon and her five cubs fell into a home’s living room and bit through the glove of a firefighter as they tried to remove the animals
Firefighters responded to the scene to assist the man, possibly a friend of the pet owner, who was stuck about 50 feet up the tree, and got him down safely
The woman woke firefighters up by frantically ringing the doorbell and said her pet raccoon needed help because it had been exposed to marijuana
The Bridgeport Fire Department was dispatched “to extricate an employee whose left arm became wedged in between two press rollers”
The fire crews were battling a 3,300-acre fire when they found the illegal indoor grow operation inside of a home
Responders are searching for Nashville firefighter Jesse Reed after he disappeared when his vehicle plunged into the Tennessee River
Battalion Chief Jerry Reed said they identified it as a World War II-era M6 60 Caliber Bazooka anti-tank rocket
Toronto Professional Fire Fighters’ Association president Frank Ramagnano said trying to figure out what happened to Constantinos Filippidis has been “frustrating”
Constantinos Filippidis, alone and disoriented, was still wearing his ski pants, helmet and goggles when he called his distraught wife from a Sacramento airport
Alecia Malpiede said she used a lighter to set the house on fire, and then also tried to set fire to the ambulance she was riding in
Titusville Fire and Emergency Services Department rescued the boy who climbed into the machine from the back and became trapped
Trevor Lane’s arrest report says his cat had been stuck in the tree overnight, and he figured the fire department’s “big ladders” would be of use
Officials said the hole opened up near a storm drain; the motorcyclist had minor injuries
Although it falls short of needing a permit in California, officials said “no public good can come from the sale of this tool”
Officials said the bomb’s fuse had been lit but the device didn’t detonate