"After recieving a rescue call to a victim of a fall Mecklenburg County Sheriff's Deputy 41 found the 76 YO female victim's home in flames. The deputy sent out an alert of "fire showing" and forced his way into the home to rescue the handicapped victim moments before flames consumed the room she had fallen in. Company 3 (Chase City),Company 1 (Boydton) and Chase City Rescue responded as well as additional units from the Sheriff's Office. Quick action by Deputy 41, and a quick "knock down" by fire crews resulted in a life saved and confinement of the fire to two rooms.
To ALL responders I commend you on a Job Well Done!!!"
Just as fire crews were about to exit a burning home where conditions had become dangerous, a chunk of falling debris knocked one of them unconscious -- forcing his colleagues into quick-thinking action.
Calgary firefighter Allan Tillotson, one of the crew members at the blaze in Chestermere on Thursday, said mere minutes before Kevin Boyd was struck, he was arranging for everyone to leave the home. "I know this sounds hokey but my spider senses were going off and I've learned to trust that on the job," he said yesterday. "You start to get an uneasy feeling and you're not sure why ... but I definitely knew we had to get out."
The crews were looking for a possible missing person, although it was later learned no one was inside, when 39-year-old Boyd was struck by what is thought to be a large chunk of soggy drywall plummeting from a vaulted ceiling area in the second level of the home...READ Article at Calsun.canoe.ca
NORRISTOWN - A Conshohocken man is behind bars at the county prison for a hit-and-run accident involving a Wissahickon volunteer firefighter helping to battle the devastating apartment blaze on Wednesday in Conshohocken.
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FDNY firefighters went to work on a fire in a Laundromat on 20 Marcy Avenue and Metropolitan Avenue in the Williamsburg Section of Brooklyn, NY on July 13, 2008. Early reports place the fire in a one story laundromat.
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Firefighters from Conshohocken went to work on a massive 8 Alarm Blaze in a luxury apartment house that later spread to four other buildings. Despite the massive fire philly.com is reporting only one firefighter and one civilian were injured. The fire took place at the RiverWalk at the Millennium complex in Schuykill.
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"We saw some smoke from the new building that was under construction, and then we saw flames coming out of the windows and then all of a sudden the whole thing went up before we could even call 911," McKenna said...READ MORE
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CHARLOTTE -- Five people including four firefighters are recovering after a car accident involving a fire truck and an SUV on Monday morning.
The incident happened at the intersection of South Boulevard and Woodlawn Road. Firefighters were on the way to another accident on Interstate 77 at the time.
The driver of the SUV had serious but non-life-threatening injuries. The four firefighters on the fire truck were taken to the hospital for a medical evaluation...READ MORE NEWS14
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