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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 ...

JERICHO, AR - A small Arkansas town is without their fire chief. He's recovering at The MED after he was shot in court by a police officer. The courtroom chaos happened Thursday, August 27, 2009 in Jericho, a tiny town of 200 just north of Marion. Crime scene tape still surrounds Jericho City Hall where Chief Don Payne was shot in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

SYRACUSE - Syracuse firefighter Ray Duncanson was searching for victims in the smoky darkness of a burning attic Thursday morning when his air supply stopped. He panicked for an instant. Then his training took over. He ripped off the oxygen mask and breathed in the toxic smoke. Growing woozy, he walked blindly toward a small window he’d passed earlier. It would ...

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 ...

YONKERS — A firefighter searching for victims at a house fire here was killed early Friday, the authorities said. The firefighter, Patrick Joyce, died about 2 a.m., Mayor Philip A. Amicone said. Witnesses had told firefighters that there were people on the top floor, and Mr. Amicone said that Firefighter Joyce and another firefighter were searching when the intense heat ...

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, ...

UK - Firefighters were tackling a serious blaze at Gallahers cigarette factory in Ballymena into the early hours of this morning. The blaze broke out in an outbuilding on the site in Lisnfillan outside the town around 8pm. As it took hold, eyewitnesses reported being able to see flames from a mile and a half away. However, production in the main ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

CHICAGO - An Aurora man who was accused Wednesday of spraying lighter fluid on his 3-year-old niece and then setting her on fire because he felt she was bothering him has had mental health problems since a car hit him three years ago, a relative said. Raymundo Herrera, 17, of the 1200 block of South Grove Street, was being held in ...

UPPER MARLBORO, Md. - Two members of a volunteer fire department are charged with setting fire to a vacant house in Prince George's County so that they could put it out. Jerome Engle, 46, of Bowie and James R. Martinez, 24, of Damascus were indicted Thursday in the March 17, 2008 fire in Riverdale. The charges include second-degree arson, burglary and ...

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 ...

DEERFIELD BEACH, Fla. -- Broward County authorities say three juveniles are in custody in connection with an attack on a 15-year-old boy that left him hospitalized with severe burns. [widget:news__how_to_become_vol_ff] The sheriff's office says the unidentified boy was sitting by a swimming pool Monday afternoon when the attack occurred. Officials say he was doused with a flammable liquid and intentionally set ...