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Firefighter struck by car after responding to accident on Interstate 5
Nov. 20, 2011 Leave a Comment
Jasper County, Texas firefighter killed in car accident
Aug. 29, 2011 1 Comment
DALLAS — A Texas firefighter was killed in a car accident Sunday. Angelina River Volunteer Firefighter Anthony Quinten Meyers, 38, was working a Jasper County wildfire when the ATV he was riding in was struck by pickup truck that was also working the fire. Meyers ran a stop sign and was hit by the truck, [...]
54 Boston firefighters suspended in wake of EMT training scam
June 25, 2011 Leave a Comment
The Boston Fire Department suspended 54 firefighters on Thursday who were part of a state-wide scheme involving more than 200 Emergency Medical Technicians who faked medical training certifications last year, according to state investigators. Although other districts planned to fire the EMTs involved in the fake training, the Boston Fire Department decided to wage a [...]
Dallas firefighter, 35, dies on duty
June 23, 2011 Leave a Comment
DALLAS — A 35-year-old city firefighter died Thursday morning after he was found unresponsive in the station. Chris Pham, 35, was found in his bunk during the shift change at Fire Station 49. Fellow firefighters found him and performed CPR. He was taken to Methodist Charlton Medical Center where he later died. No cause of [...]
Texas judge refuses to grant firefighter death benefits to transgendered widow
May 30, 2011 Leave a Comment
A Wharton county, Texas, Judge recently ruled that a transgender widow’s marriage to a Wharton Firefighter was not legal at the time of the firefighter’s death, leaving the widow ineligible to receive her husband’s death benefits. Firefighter Thomas Araguz died in the Line of Duty during a fire at an egg farm in Wharton, in [...]
LifeLine Ambulance executives indicted
May 14, 2011 4 Comments
A Suffolk County Grand Jury recently indicted a Cambridge man and four executives of LifeLine Ambulance in Woburn for their alleged involvement with falsifying EMT training records as part of a well-publicized scandal. Thomas Codair Sr., 49, of Cambridge, is alleged to be the main person responsible for the controversy. Codair previously worked as an [...]
Connecticut firefighter dies on duty
April 19, 2011 Leave a Comment
A Windsor, Conn. firefighter died in the line of duty after collapsing during a fire on Monday. Robert Watts, 50, a Marine Corps veteran and volunteer firefighter in the town of 30,000, was charging a fire hydrant when he collapsed. Other firefighters at the scene performed CPR on him and tried to resuscitate him, but [...]
Texas firefighter severely burned in wildfire
April 12, 2011 Leave a Comment
A northern Texas firefighter was critically burned fighting a wildland fire last weekend, according to FirefighterCloseCalls.com, which reports on firefighter fatalities and injuries. Elias Jacquez, a member of the Cactus, Texas Volunteer Fire Department, suffered third-degree burns over 60 percent of his body on Saturday while battling the blaze that burned 60,000 acres, or about [...]
New Hampshire firefighter dies in training
Jan. 16, 2011 Leave a Comment
A Sandown, N.H. firefighter died during a training exercise Sunday morning. Harold Frey, 46, of Sandown, was finishing an ice rescue training class on the Exeter River just before noon when he collapsed, suffering a heart attack, said Fire Chief Wilfred Tapley. Tapley said that Frey was a new member of the department, though he [...]
Maine volunteer firefighter killed responding to call Monday night
Jan. 4, 2011 Leave a Comment
A volunteer firefighter from the Shapleigh, Maine department died last night in a single vehicle accident while responding to a call. David Remington, 58, of Acton, was responding to a rescue call when he lost control of his truck and crashed, according to FireFighterCloseCalls.com. Remington was ejected and killed instantly, pronounced dead at the scene. [...]
Fire Marshal: Help dig out the hydrants too!
Dec. 27, 2010 Leave a Comment
As New England emerges from the Blizzard of 2010, fire officials would like to remind residents that every moment counts in a fire. So, while you’re digging out your car, your mailbox, your stoop, and sidewalk, don’t forget to free your nearest fire hydrant. “As you dig your way out of this storm, please adopt [...]
Doctor Senator Tom Coburn to block the 9/11 health-care bill
Dec. 21, 2010 6 Comments
Oklahoma Republican Senator Tom Coburn will block a bill that would cover the health-care costs for Ground Zero workers, preventing a vote before the Christmas holiday, the Wall Street Journal reported. Coburn, who is a medical doctor, joins conservatives who do not want to spend the billions necessary to provide medical care to the police [...]
3-alarm fire strikes house in Uxbridge
Dec. 11, 2010 Leave a Comment
Firefighters from around the region battled a 3-alarm fire at the home of one of their own last night in the Worcester County town of Uxbridge. The fire broke out at 7:19 p.m. at the duplex at 12a Hazel St., off North Main Street, steps from the Hannaford Supermarket, said Melanie Blodget-O’Toole, a spokeswoman for [...]
Young Israeli firefighter dies in wildfire
Dec. 5, 2010 1 Comment
A 16-year-old volunteer Israeli firefighter died in the Carmel forest fire in Israel, a wildfire that is ravaging the landscape. Elad Riven, of Haifa, was killed Thursday. He was a volunteer with a scout group of students. He was in the northern city of Afula when his mother received a call to alert him to [...]
33-year-old Rehoboth firefighter dies of heart attack while responding to emergency
Nov. 29, 2010 Leave a Comment
Southeastern Massachusetts is in mourning after the death of a third generation firefighter, who suffered a heart attack while responding to a fire call. Firefighter Kenneth Marshall Jr., just 33 years old, was officially a Rehoboth firefighter for 15 years. His father, Kenneth Sr., is a retired firefighter, and grandfather George “Rab” Wetherall, served for [...]
Mexican national charged in crash that killed S.C. firefighter
Nov. 16, 2010 Leave a Comment
A woman responsible for a traffic crash that killed a South Carolina firefighter faces several charges. Neida Ortega, 34, was allegedly speeding and only had a Mexican driver’s license when she crashed a van into a Chevrolet Impala, sending the second car careening between two parked firetrucks in the eastbound lane of I-20 while firefighters [...]
Suspect arraigned for stealing helmet off a Boston firetruck
Nov. 1, 2010 Leave a Comment
Nicholas Duncan, 23, of Jamaica Plain was arraigned today in West Roxbury District Court, charged with stealing a fireman’s helmet out of a firetruck as its crew was working at a medical call on Huntington Avenue. Duncan was released on $250 cash bail and will return to court on December 13, said Jake Wark, a [...]
Connecticut firefighter dies after shift
Oct. 27, 2010 Leave a Comment
NEW HAVEN — A Waterbury, Conn. firefighter has died after suffering a massive heart attack hours after his shift ended Tuesday. Lieutenant Bruce Bachinsky, of Waterbury’s Engine 8, fell ill a few hours after coming home from his shift. In the fire service, his passing is considered a death in the line of duty. Bachinsky [...]
Ghent firefighter killed responding to call
Oct. 20, 2010 Leave a Comment
A Ghent, N.Y. firefighter died while responding to an emergency call on Tuesday, according to FireFighterCloseCalls.com. Captain William Akin, 52, a member of the Ghent Volunteer Fire Company was responding to a car accident in his personal vehicle, a 2001 pick-up truck, when he struck a utility pole on Route 66. Power lines and part [...]
Fire truck gets stuck in a trench
Oct. 12, 2010 Leave a Comment
SAN DIEGO — A San Diego Fire-Rescue Department ladder truck got stuck in a roadway trench while returning from a medical call Monday night, according to FireFighterCloseCalls.com. KFMB-TV reported the truck, designated Engine 10, drove over a steel plate covering an open trench near the 6300 block of Alvarado Road near Alvarado Hospital at about [...]
