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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 ...

LAWENCE, NY - Days before Caleb Lacey became a suspect in the Lawrence fire that killed four people in February, it was Lacey's father who first put his son in touch with police, a detective testified Monday. Lacey's father, the Rev. Richard Lacey, was worried about his son, a volunteer firefighter, because the 19-year-old said he was still shaken after stepping ...

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 ...

NEW YORK - The Battle of the Badges returns to Madison Square Garden on Friday night, and some major bragging rights are on the line for the Fire and Police departments' boxing teams. This is the 27th year FDNY and NYPD boxing teams have faced off - and there is a special tie-breaking twist. Each team has 13 wins under its ...

ALCOA, Tenn. (AP) — Police in Alcoa say a firefighter stepped outside for a smoke and came back to find his turnout gear had been stolen. [widget:flywheel_links] The Daily Times of Maryville quoted the investigating officer's report, which stated the firefighter opened a firehouse bay door Saturday morning and went outside. When he came back, his personal equipment, valued at about ...

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 ...

OXNARD, Calif. — A California firefighter pulled a trapped driver from his disabled pickup just seconds before a commuter train slammed into the truck Thursday morning. The pickup wound up on the tracks after colliding with a sport utility vehicle. At about 5:30 a.m. Thursday, a firefighter was inside the pickup trying to free the driver, and another firefighter was outside ...

SPRINGFIELD - With an inferno blazing next door, 14-year-old Tyler Grayson ran through his stepsister's adjacent condominium building early yesterday, beating on doors to wake people up and make sure they got out. By midmorning, the next-door Building J at the Hidden Cedars Condominium complex in Springfield Township was reduced to mostly a smoldering pile of rubble, leaving 34 people homeless. ...

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. ...

TAMPA - Six Hillsborough County fire medics were reprimanded and a captain faces discipline after a prank left a co-worker's home trashed. All seven have been transferred from Station 14 to other stations. On Aug. 15, current and former firefighters from Station 14 were attending a baby shower at Capt. E.J. Fernandez's home, documents show. Fire medic Miguel Ruiz was expected ...

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 ...

WILMINGTON -- On the night that he allegedly ran over and fatally injured firefighter Michelle Smith, paraplegic Joseph Taye had been at a strip club, likely drinking, according to opening statements by prosecutors. Taye, 29, of Bear who is now facing first-degree murder charges along with a host of lesser crimes, may not have even tapped his brakes before he slammed ...

HOUSTON - While local civil rights groups complained Tuesday about what they call ongoing tactics of intimidation against two female firefighters who formally complained in July of racist and sexist graffiti at the station where they worked, the lawyer for the two women said he doubts the official investigation into the matter is being taken seriously or any real progress made. ...

LAWRENCE, Kan., Oct. 12 (UPI) -- Police in Kansas said they arrested an intoxicated 21-year-old man who attempted to drive home in an ambulance left parked by paramedics on a call. [widget:news__brand_new_store] Lawrence Police Sgt. Susan Hadl said the man entered the Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical ambulance that had been left parked downtown by a crew responding to a medical call ...

PHILADELPHIA — A tall construction lift toppled over and struck a downtown Philadelphia apartment building Monday, killing a construction worker who fell 125 feet. Investigators want to know whether James Wilson, 40, of Glassboro, N.J., was strapped into the bucket of the boom lift as he worked on a church roof. He may have free-fallen to the ground, they said. "It ...

JERICHO, N.Y. — A volunteer firefighter who died helping to rescue people from the World Trade Center after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks has been awarded the 9/11 Heroes Medal of Valor. Lawmakers presented Glenn Winuk's relatives with the medal Monday in his Long Island hometown. [widget:news__sept_11th_forum] Winuk was a 40-year-old lawyer and longtime volunteer Jericho firefighter who raced from his ...

DALLAS — A fire investigation that led to the execution of a man in the deaths of his three young children was so seriously flawed that its conclusion of arson can't be supported, a fire expert hired by the state said in a new report. In a report to the Texas Forensic Science Commission released Tuesday, Craig Beyler said the fire ...

LAWRENCE, Ind. -- Police officers in Lawrence have been told they should wait for firefighters to arrive at the scene of a burning building, even if they know someone is trapped inside. The policy change was prompted by a concern for officer safety, police officials told 6News' Jack Rinehart. "Whenever possible, we'll let those professionals deal with the fire who have ...