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  • NIOSH Releases LODD Reports

    Arkansas Report Illinois Report NIOSH has released two firefighter fatality investigative reports. One involves a firefighter who fell off a bridge, while the other probe was conducted after a member of a crew fell through a floor into a...

    News • November 5th, 2009

  • USFA Fire Administrator Shares Leadership Advice

    ATLANTA, Ga. -- Perhaps there's no one better to teach lessons about what it takes to become a leader in the fire service than United States Fire Administrator Kelvin Cochran -- the nation's top fire official. Cochran was appointed to the position by...

    News • November 4th, 2009

  • 3 Mass. Police Officers Hurt in Fire

    BOSTON --  Three police officers and four civilians were injured Tuesday at a house fire in Lynn. A two-alarm fire broke out Tuesday night in a two-story home at 18 Clinton St. in Lynn, fire officials said. Of the three police officers...

    News • November 4th, 2009

  • One Killed in Florida 3-Alarmer

    JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- A woman was killed and three other people were injured when the roof of a burning Arlington apartment complex collapsed Tuesday afternoon. Scores of firefighters responded to a three-alarm fire at...

    News • November 4th, 2009

  • NIOSH: Alcohol a Factor in Ohio LODD

     View NIOSH Report  NIOSH investigators have determined that alcohol was again a factor in the death of a firefighter who perished in 2008.Following a probe, they found that Richard L. Kear, of Pitt Township, Ohio Fire Dept., had a blood alcohol...

    News • November 3rd, 2009

  • Plant Explosion Rocks Mich. City

      MARYSVILLE, Mich. -- Fire crews extinguished a blaze at a welding supply company in Marysville Monday after a series of explosions rocked the nearby neighborhood and injured a worker. The first...

    News • November 3rd, 2009

  • Clutter Hinders Ohio Fire Rescue

    CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, Ohio --  A 76-year-old man barely escaped a fire early Monday morning. Fire crews said he was hard to rescue because of all of the clutter in his home. Fire investigators said two neighbors called police when they saw...

    News • November 3rd, 2009

  • Pa. Firefighter Pulls 3 From Blaze

    Firefighter Michael Remper said he didn't hesitate Monday morning when he heard children screaming from the second floor of a burning house in West Tarentum. "I went through the flames to grab the two kids and the mother and drag them all...

    News • November 3rd, 2009

  • Ship Built With WTC Steel Visits NYC

    NEW YORK -- The new Navy assault ship USS New York, built with World Trade Center steel, arrived in its namesake city Monday with a rifle volley salute near the site of the 2001 terrorist attack. First responders, families of Sept. 11 victims...

    News • November 3rd, 2009

  • Fire Hits Historic Vt. Store -- Again

    PUTNEY, Vt. -- When a fire destroyed the beloved, centuries-old Putney General Store 18 months ago, some people here cried. The creaky wooden building where locals arrived for coffee, hardware and gossip, and where tourists ducked in to...

    News • November 3rd, 2009

  • Ryan White Notification Law Restored

    WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Responders have revived legislation that will permit notification of personnel exposed to HIV or other serious illnesses.On Friday, President Obama signed the Ryan White legislation that includes the provision allowing hospitals to...

    News • November 3rd, 2009

  • Report: FEMA Meeting Most Requirements for Awarding FIRE Act Grants

    A Government Accountability Office review released Oct. 30 found that FEMA is meeting most requirements for awarding FIRE Act funds, but that more can be done to improve the grant process.According to the GAO report, the agency met seven of eight...

    News • October 31st, 2009

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    Document • October 31st, 2009

  • Report: Ohio Layoffs Put Lives at Risk

    Fire houses are being shut down, jobs are going up in smoke, and lives are being put at risk. Every minute, a fire doubles in size, so seconds count. Melissa Watson only needed a few more. Fire houses are being shut down, jobs are going up in smoke...

    News • October 31st, 2009

  • New Orleans Fire Truck Hit by Gunfire in Standoff

    NEW ORLEANS -- A nine-hour police standoff ended Thursday night, and police said they've got the suspect in custody. It started at an apartment in the 700 block of Upperline Street, just blocks from the Mississippi...

    News • October 30th, 2009

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