www.firefighterclosecalls.com sent us this great (or not so great) video of firefighters making an attack on a car fire at a Home Depot #4163, 145 Levittown Parkway, Levittown, Pennsylvania on July 26, 2008. Watch how this unfolds, and as always feel free to add to the comments what you see to be the issues.
CNN video of a Historic Peekskill, New York Fire House Collapse as it was scheduled to be moved to a new site.
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PEEKSKILL - A 108-year-old firehouse in Peekskill collapsed into a heap of rubble just before noon today.
The Centennial Firehouse was set to be moved a few hundred yards away, but a mechanical mishap caused the structure to tumble over as workers began to rotate it. The job foreman ran from the building seconds before it came down, and there were no injuries...READ MORE
Freep.com is reporting Detroit firefighters were injured when their trucked flipped while responding to a house fire. One firefighter needed stitches in his head and another has a broken arm. Two other firefighters were only slightly injured.
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She said she saw all four firefighters thrown from the truck, although the squads are equipped with seatbelts. One was nearly crushed, she said.
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NC Forest Service is mourning Fellow brother Curtis Jessen after he died this past Thursday after falling 50 feet while fighting a fire in Polk County.
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The North Carolina Forest Service has requested that flags be lowered in honor of Jessen. Funeral arrangements have not been announced.
“This is a very sad day for the entire Division of Forest Resources and all of our firefighting partners,” said Wib Owen, the director of the Division of Forest Resources. “Our thoughts and prayers are with Curtis and his family.” - COMPLETE AND VIDEO
NJ.COM - flag-draped, cross-shaped piece of structural steel from the North Tower of the World Trade Center will be carted across New Jersey on Saturday on its way to a new memorial in Shanksville, Pa...
The cross will be installed when the motorcade reaches Shanksville Saturday night, and the memorial will be unveiled at a ceremony on Sunday morning.
The cross and its escorts are scheduled to leave Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn at 7 a.m. Saturday. Their next stop will be at the TA Travel Center truck stop at exit 7 on Route 78 in Bloomsbury, Hunterdon County. Organizers expect the motorcade to reach the truck stop by 9:30 a.m... If you would like to participate in the ride -
August 22, 2008
