FireLink

CHICO, CA - Becky Quigley, a 23-year-old Hotshot Firefighter, is in a Chico hospital where she battles a different kind of fight than the 23-year-old Weed resident is accustomed. Instead of fighting fires, Quigley now fights to recover from injuries that nearly killed her when a water-tender truck inadvertantly drove over Quigley - twice - on Sept. 21. Sue Tavalero, a ...

COMPTON, CA - A lot of reality shows featuring singers, actors and rappers are for those with a career on the way out, said actor-singer Tyrese Gibson. Not him. So, rather than go that route, Gibson is getting into reality as a producer and narrator of "First In," a 10-episode series launching Wednesday at 10 on BET that follows firefighters and ...

BOISE, Idaho — An Idaho woman who died after being pinned under a garage door at the paramedic building where she used to work first lured emergency workers away with a fake 9-1-1 call. KTVB-TV reports that 35-year-old Melissa Farris of Caldwell told dispatchers late last Thursday that a car had driven off a road. As an ambulance left the Canyon ...

ABINGTON -- A Boston EMT has been accused of shooting two of his friends after a night of drinking at a fund-raiser before grabbing his medical kit and helping to administer first aid. The EMT, Rhys Williams, 41, is accused of shooting two brothers during an argument early Sunday morning after he was thrown out of the party. Both brothers are ...

HAUPPAYGE, NY - With screams for help and visible flames shooting from the rear of a neighbor's house early Monday morning, two volunteers from the Hauppauge Fire Department rescued an unconscious neighbor from the home with an assist from a Good Samaritan, witnesses and fire officials said. All done without benefit of protective gear. Steve Webber, 28, was returning home from ...

BOSTON - Two former Boston firefighters were charged by federal prosecutors today with faking career-ending injuries to receive tax-free accidental disability pensions, while a fire department personnel clerk was charged with perjury and obstruction of justice in the federal fraud investigation. Former district chief James Famolare, 65, and firefighter Albert Arroyo, 47, are facing multiple counts of mail fraud for seeking ...

TAMPA, Fla. — A former Hillsborough County deputy accused of forcing a woman to perform oral sex on him in his patrol car has reportedly agreed to a plea deal that would require him to serve five years in prison. An attorney for 37-year-old Raymond Choy said Wednesday that his client has agreed to plead guilty to sexual battery and ...

Sometimes the best stories are the ones you can't make up. When it comes to emergency dispatch, this tends to be the case. Sit back and enjoy this list of some of the most outrageous 9-1-1 calls we've ever heard. *Note: All videos may not be real First Video >>> [page] I Need A BambulanceWarning: Strong Language Next Video >>> ...

NEWARK - An off-duty firefighter rescued a woman from a blaze in Newark’s West Ward this afternoon as the city fire department battled a pair of house fires that were later deemed suspicious, authorities said. Off-duty firefighter Joseph Cuccolo entered a burning three-story structure on Ninth Avenue around 1 p.m. and pulled an unidentified woman from the one-alarm blaze, according to ...

DULUTH, Minn. (AP) - A Minnesota man has pleaded guilty to driving his motorized La-Z-Boy chair while drunk. A criminal complaint says 62-year-old Dennis LeRoy Anderson told police he left a bar in the northern Minnesota town of Proctor on his chair after drinking eight or nine beers. [widget:news__wtop] Prosecutors say Anderson's blood alcohol content was 0.29, more than three times ...

SEATTLE - The city of Seattle must pay a former firefighter $12.75 million for debilitating injuries suffered when he fell 15 feet through a fire-station pole hole, a King County Superior Court jury decided on Thursday. Mark Jones, 45, was on temporary assignment at Station 33, the city's southernmost fire station, when he was injured trying to get to the restroom ...

NEW SOUTH WALES - Female firefighters in NSW are furious about new thin uniforms that become see-through when wet. Hundreds of female volunteers at the NSW Rural Fire Service (RFS) have started an online petition to get rid of the yellow uniforms, which they have described as "demeaning", the Daily Telegraph reports. The women complain the uniforms become see-through when they ...

A city firefighter pleaded guilty on Wednesday to running a large-scale pot factory in the basement of a "grow house" in Queens. Matthew Cody, 28, faces up to two years in prison when he's sentenced in January by Federal Judge John Gleeson. Cody's brother, Michael, 26, a city sanitation worker, also pleaded guilty Wednesday in Brooklyn Federal Court to possession of marijuana. ...

SOUTH KOREA - South Korea's Hoya Robot is developing a mini firefighter helper bot that can enter burning buildings to conduct reconnaissance and check for people. The Firefighters Assistant Robot can apparently operate for up to 30 minutes in fires, and can withstand temperatures up to 320 F. It can also survive falls of more than 6 feet. It's water-resistant, as ...

BRONX - A good Samaritan perched atop a fourth-floor fire escape helped firefighters stage a dramatic rescue of a young boy from a burning Bronx apartment on Wednesday. Firefighters from the FDNY's Ladder 47 raced to 1418 Zerega Ave. in Westchester Square shortly after 4 p.m. and found a fourth-floor apartment ablaze - with two people trapped inside. The truck's ladder ...

CHESTER, Pa. - A suburban Philadelphia firefighter who was suspended over a flag decal on his locker will be returning to work. Jim Krapf was reinstated on Monday after the Chester fire commissioner granted an exception to a ban on locker decorations. U.S. flags are now allowed. Commissioner James Johnson had instituted the ban in August after a controversy over a ...

SILICON VALLEY - Julie LaBlanc was shocked when she found a hard-core pornographic magazine under her 9-year-old son's pillow. But that wasn't nearly as surprising as where he got it: the San Jose fire station where she worked as a firefighter. That discovery eventually led to the city ferreting out dozens of sexually explicit magazines at firehouses across San Jose. It ...

NEW YORK - The smokin'-hot firefighter who sparked an FDNY scandal with a full-frontal nude video is embroiled in another scorcher -- he's named as the "other man" in the New Jersey divorce of a reality-show contestant who stabbed her husband, The Post has learned. Five-alarm hunk Michael Biserta, of Brooklyn's Ladder Co. 131, traded sexually explicit mobile Facebook messages with ...

ST. PETERSBURG - A St. Petersburg fire truck heading to a call of a bleeding man apparently ran over the man. According to St. Petersburg Fire Rescue, the department received a call about 3:45 p.m. today about a "person bleeding'' in the 400 block of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Street South. That location is about a block from the fire ...

BOSTON - Nearly 130 firefighters across the state who were laid off because of budget cuts will be rehired, Governor Deval Patrick said yesterday, as he announced the release of $8.2 million in federal stimulus funds to 13 local fire departments. The money will bring back 44 firefighters in Fall River, restore 33 in New Bedford, and return 16 in Worcester, ...