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Firefighter Survival School Honors Charleston 9

Those who completed the South Carolina Firefighter Survival School graduated Monday -- the fifth anniversary of the Sofa Super Store Fire.

News • June 19th, 2012

Fire/EMS Safety and Health Week in Full Swing

The NVFC and the IAFC have joined forces to promote and encourage safe practices for responders to ensure that everyone goes home.

News • June 18th, 2012

Fire/EMS Safety & Health Week Begins June 17

This year, the National Volunteer Fire Council is joining forces with the International Association of Fire Chiefs to promote "Rules You Can Live By."

News • June 6th, 2012

Study: Obesity Rate for Firefighters Higher Than Public

According to the NVFC study, the number of firefighters who are overweight, obese, and unfit has risen to alarming levels in fire departments, both volunteer and career.

News • January 17th, 2012

Presumption Law Helps Family of Iowa Firefighter

DES MOINES, Iowa -- Battling flames and smoke is part of the danger of being a firefighter, but there are other dangers, one of which cost a Des Moines firefighter his life.Kirk Pederson spent 15 years as a member of the Des Moines Fire Department. He...

News • October 19th, 2011

Texas Volunteers Recall Fighting Big Wildland Fire

The Heart of the Pines Volunteer FD was right in the middle of the Bastrop County fire.

News • October 12th, 2011

Pa. Fire Lt. Collapses and Dies at Fire School

Keith Rankin was a big man. A real "teddy bear of a guy" who constantly did for others. For his fellow firefighters, that's the tough part. "He would do absolutely anything for anyone, and in the end, when it was our turn to do something...

News • September 26th, 2011

Phoenix FD Launches Crisis Line to Help Prevent Suicides

The department and the Crisis Response Network created a help line for firefighters.

News • August 8th, 2011

N.M. Recycling Plant Fire Causes Health Concerns

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- A fire at a South Valley recycling plant in Bernalillo County has some residents worried about potentially dangerous fumes wafting from the plant. Fire crews said the fire at the Albuquerque Metals Recycling...

News • July 26th, 2011

Pa. Firefighters, EMS, Treated for CO Exposure

SPRINGDALE, Pa. -- County officials said two residents of a house in Springdale Borough reported feeling light-headed and dizzy. An elderly man and his mother live in the 400 block of Chestnut Street. The son visited...

News • July 20th, 2011

Oregon Firefighter's Kin Sues City Over Suicide

The family of a Salem firefighter who killed himself two years ago is suing the city, claiming wrongful death and negligence.

News • July 18th, 2011

Colo. Firefighters Exposed to Asbestos at Fire

LONGMONT, Colo. -- A fire broke out early Sunday morning in a Longmont home undergoing asbestos abatement. At about 2:45 a.m., the Longmont Fire Department was called to a home at 50 East Fifth Avenue, Assistant Chief...

News • July 11th, 2011

Gas Explosion Levels Baltimore House, 1 Hurt

BALTIMORE -- A man was being treated for second- and third-degree burns Thursday after a house explosion rocked a northwest Baltimore neighborhood. The blast occurred about 1:45 a.m. in the 5800 block of Key Avenue off...

News • June 3rd, 2011

Iowa Station Battles Bedbug Infestation

DES MOINES, Iowa -- A fire station in Des Moines has been dealing with bedbugs. They are usually called on to put out a blaze in a burning building, but at station number 4, firefighters had to call in for help to...

News • May 26th, 2011

Fla. Firefighter Suffers Chest Pains Battling Fire

BOCA RATON, Fla. -- A firefighter suffered chest pains while battling a fire above a Boca Raton deli early Tuesday morning and had to be taken to a hospital. A firefighter was hospitalized for chest pains while...

News • May 24th, 2011

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