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UPDATE: DEERFIELD BEACH, FL - Five Florida teens have been charged with dousing a 15-year-old classmate with rubbing alcohol and setting him afire, burning the boy over 80% of his body, Broward County authorities say. Read the Original Story The attack occurred Monday afternoon at an apartment complex in Deerfield Beach. Michael Brewer reportedly had not repaid another boy $40 he ...

AKRON, OH - Madison Carter, 4, took to her father's lap with a child's bliss. Around her were men no longer able to go to work. Her father, Akron firefighter Chad Carter, just finished his last day on the job. His layoff takes effect today, barely a year after he joined the department. While every one of the city's 38 laid-off ...

PHILADELPHIA - When Chester firefighter Jim Krapf returns to work Thursday, the small American flag decal that earned him a suspension and brought a crowd of flag-waving supporters to his side will remain on his locker. Krapf, 31, who defied an order to clear the face of his locker, was reinstated yesterday after the fire commissioner granted an exception for the ...

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. [widget:news_state_new_york] The truck's ladder was ...

RIVERSIDE, Calif.—Riverside officials say 25 dogs have died in two fires in a house packed to the ceiling with clutter. Fire Capt. Scott Wilson says an electrical problem sparked the first blaze around 6:30 p.m. Tuesday night when the homeowner was away. Battalion Chief Bill Stamper says 14 Lhasa Apso dogs that were in cages in a room of the home ...

TAMPA - Firefighters from across Florida are learning how to fight fires aboard large vessels by practicing today on the SS American Victory. Twenty firefighters from Tampa, Safety Harbor, Clearwater and Sarasota and Putnam counties are fighting a simulated fire in the ship's engine room. Their greatest challenge is navigating through tight areas of the vessel with all their equipment to ...

A standing-room-only crowd inside the Windom City Council chambers Tuesday night broke into cheers and applause as Windom Fire Chief Dan Fossing and 27 members of the city's fire department walked single file into the room. They were among nearly 150 people gathered for the meeting to show their support for the volunteer fire chief, whose position was threatened a week ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — More than 5,000 firefighters lined several city blocks in Buffalo and saluted with white-gloved hands as the flag-draped casket of a fellow firefighter arrived at a downtown cathedral. The sad scene played out twice Friday on a day of mourning. First, family, friends and colleagues followed the casket of Lt. Charles "Chip" McCarthy for his funeral, and later, ...

BOSTON - An off-duty firefighter and a crowd of witnesses helped pull a couple out of their car after it plunged into the water near the Essex town dock on Saturday afternoon. The firefighter, who is a member of the Peabody fire department, was standing near Periwinkles restaurant when the car drove over a wall in the parking lot and fell ...

ORLANDO - Firefighters weighted down by 100 pounds of equipment and wearing sealed face masks broiled in unseasonably hot weather in the 90s on Saturday during the Firefighter Challenge at the Institute of Public Safety in Tavares. [widget:flywheel_links] Dane Wilson of Lake County Fire Rescue takes part in the competition, which included a five-story tower climb with 1 3/4 -inch hose ...

TOPEKA | The Fire Department is looking for relatives of a firefighter who died while responding to a 1926 blaze. The city says Silas Brown’s name will be added Oct. 11 to the Kansas State Fallen Firefighters Memorial in Wichita. [widget:news__lodd_forum] The color guard for Topeka Local No. 83 of the International Association of Fire Fighters will be there. And relatives ...

http://www.echo-news.co.uk/news/4567521.Shop_fire_closes_London_Road_in_Southend/   this is roughly 15 minits from where i live!

UK - Parts of the tenders at Dounreay were to be stripped and sold off and the rest scrapped. However, one of the machines has been donated to Caithness and Sutherland Vintage Vehicle Club. Chairman Edward Sutherland said the club planned to restore the engine and present it in "show condition". He added: "The club has about 70 members who between ...

LOS ANGELES — As the roaring wall of flame raged through the Angeles National Forest, firefighters Ted Hall and Arnie Quinones worked feverishly to protect their fire-crew camp, made up mostly of prison inmates. But all too suddenly, the fire invaded the campsite. Hall and Quinones shepherded 55 inmates and several corrections and fire personnel into a cinderblock dining hall to ...

CADDO PARISH, LA (AP) - The Caddo Parish Sheriff's Office says a 38-year-old firefighter from Shreveport has been arrested for stealing more than $500 his department collected for charity. Spokeswoman Cindy Chadwick says Lt. Kevin Talmadge of Fire District No. 6 was booked Wednesday with felony theft. Bond has not yet been set. It was not immediately known whether he had ...

LOS ANGELES — Four firefighters escaped injury Tuesday after their fire engine sunk into a large hole caused by a burst water main in the San Fernando Valley. The firefighters were responding to a call about flooding on a residential street in the Valley Village neighborhood when they saw excessive water on the road, Fire department Capt. Steve Ruda said. [widget:news__firelinks_best] ...

As the city of Miami's first black fire chief, Maurice Kemp knows that people look up to him. Then again, most everyone looked up to him long before he became chief. At 6-foot-9 1/2 , the 24-year veteran is the tallest firefighter in the department's history. Everything from his bunker pants -- with 44-inch inseams -- to his bed, had to ...

SANTA FE SPRINGS, CA - Homicide detectives combed a parking lot for clues Tuesday after firefighters discovered a body in a burning Dumpster. A driver on the 5 Freeway reported the fire about 12:30 a.m. in a business parking lot in the 13000 block of Firestone Boulevard, officials said. A single engine from the Santa Fe Springs Department of Fire-Rescue responded, ...

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CASHION, Okla. — The Cashion fire chief and his wife are living what a fellow firefighter said is an emergency responder's worst nightmare. Fire Chief Danny Clark and his wife, Stephanie, an emergency medical technician, were the first to arrive at the scene of a traffic accident Sunday four miles south of Cashion. But when they got the call from the ...