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  • Off-Duty Tree Trimming Kills Pa. Chief

    MILESBURG, Pa. -- Emergency responders in Centre County are confirming reports that the man killed in a tree trimming accident this morning is the chief of the Howard Fire Company. Authorities said 42-year-old Bob Mann was killed shortly...

    News • September 7th, 2010

  • Mass. Boy Survives Fall Down Well

    A 6-year-old boy was recovering Saturday after falling 20 feet into a stone well in Shrewsbury. Fire officials received a call from a Barrows Road home at about 2:36 p.m. When crews arrived in the backyard, the boys father was...

    News • September 7th, 2010

  • Ariz. FFs Spend Hours at Fatal Scene

    PHOENIX -- Department of Public Safety officials said two infants died after a three-vehicle crash in the eastbound lanes of Interstate 10 just before 1 a.m. Sunday morning. The accident involved two passenger cars and a fully-loaded fuel...

    News • September 7th, 2010

  • Plane Hits Home Near Ore. Airport

    AURORA, Ore. -- A pilot practicing takeoffs and landings at the Aurora Airport smashed into the roof of a nearby home in a crash that seriously injured him but left the homeowner unharmed. Marion County deputies and the Aurora firefighters...

    News • September 3rd, 2010

  • Wash. Woman Rescued by Neighbor

    VANCOUVER, Wash. -- Two neighbors helped a woman escape from an early morning fire that caused $500,000 in damage to a Vancouver apartment building, firefighters said. Police dispatchers said they received a 911 call at about 1 a.m. Friday from...

    News • September 3rd, 2010

  • Plane Crash Lands on Fla. Interstate

    JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- A twin-engine aircraft made an emergency landing Tuesday morning along Interstate 10, avoiding vehicles on the crowded highway, but snarling traffic for hours. The pilot and a passenger were...

    News • September 1st, 2010

  • Tenn. FFs Save Man Trapped in Silo

    COLUMBIA, Tenn. -- Rescue teams pulled off a tricky and dangerous rescue. But after they saved a man from a grain silo, he disappeared. Emergency workers spent more than an hour Monday at the silo on Hayes Denton Road...

    News • September 1st, 2010

  • Smoke Empties Arizona High-Rise

    PHOENIX -- A small electrical fire forced the evacuation of a Phoenix high-rise building that houses the Arizona Department of Revenue on Monday morning. Phoenix fire officials said about 600 people were in the building at 1600 W. Monroe...

    News • August 31st, 2010

  • Off-Duty N.H. FFs Rescue Carpenter

    WEARE, N.H. -- A man was pinned underneath wooden trusses after a wall gave way at a home under construction in Weare on Monday. Fire officials said Roger Hardy and his son were working on an addition to a home on South Sugar Hill Road when...

    News • August 31st, 2010

  • Pa. Firefighters Battle Junkyard Fire

    ALIQUIPPA, Pa. -- A hazmat team is responding to a large junkyard fire Monday morning in Aliquippa, Beaver County. At least a dozen fire companies were called to the scene on Steel Street, where large piles of scrap metal and junk cars were...

    News • August 31st, 2010

  • Fla. Squad Handles Homemade Bombs

    SATELLITE BEACH, Fla. -- On Monday night, the bomb squad removed several homemade bombs from a home on Satellite Beach, after the Brevard County Sheriff's Office waited several hours to get a search warrant after emergency crews found four...

    News • August 31st, 2010

  • Wash. FFs Cut Victims From RV Wreck

    Near SNOQUALMIE PASS, Wash. -- A spectacular crash sent a man and his wife to the hospital after their RV left Interstate 90 and flew more than 100 feet through the air Sunday. Authorities said the couple was heading eastbound near the...

    News • August 30th, 2010

  • Odor Forces Evacuation of Ky. Building

    -- LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- A building in downtown Louisville has been evacuated after reports of a chemical odor. An unknown number of people at the Chestnut building told emergency crews the smell made...

    News • August 28th, 2010

  • Man Crushed at Ore. Recycling Plant

    CANBY, Ore. -- A worker was flown to a Portland hospital after being crushed by equipment at a Canby recycling plant, fire officials said. Canby Fire District spokesman Todd Gary said firefighters were called to KB Recycling on Southeast...

    News • August 25th, 2010

  • Two Rescued From Pa. House Fire

    JEANNETTE, Pa. -- Two overnight fires in Jeanette were under investigation Wednesday morning. Fire crews said the first fire started at 11:28 p.m. Tuesday at an abandoned house in the 300 block of North Fifth Street. The fire was put out a...

    News • August 25th, 2010

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