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Richlandtown Fire Co. #1 was at it again today.  Station 36 assited on a working mutliple family dwelling with possible entrapment.  After 2 1/2 hrs, the fire was brought under control.  Video and pics to follow.

The global flu pandemic expected to return to the USA this fall may infect as much as half the U.S. population, flooding hospitals with nearly 2 million patients and causing 30,000 to 90,000 deaths, according to the first official forecast of the scope of the flu season now getting underway. The report, released Monday by the White House, was prepared by ...

A Sunday morning fire at a Maryland equestrian center has killed seven horses that were being boarded there, authorities said. One firefighter suffered minor injuries. He was treated and released from a local hospital. Joseph Zurolo, a spokesman for the state fire marshal's office, says one family owned five of the horses being boarded at Royal Equestrian Center in Chesapeake City. ...

PUTNEY, Vt. — It was a heartwarming story: A 200-year-old general store suffers a fire, the owner can't afford to rebuild it and the town's historical society steps in to buy the building, hoping to make it the commercial and social hub of town once again. It really happened. Repairs to the Putney General Store were nearly complete when fire struck ...

OMAHA, NE - A pair of rookie Omaha firefighters, Loren H. Desler, 28, and Samuel M. Douchey, 24, were exiting a smoky fire at the Swanson Building, 8401 West Dodge Road, on June 4, 1965. Their chief told them to return to the building to search for a woman still inside. They followed the chief's orders, and Desler and Douchey didn't ...

When is a beer not a beer? When it's gluten-free. And as of Monday, it's also when the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau, which regulates the labeling of beer, wine and spirits, handed off regulation of said cold, sudsy brews to the Food and Drug Administration.   YOUR HEALTH: Gluten-free diets gaining in popularity   That's good news for ...

A fire truck that was swinging around a corner with its lights and siren on slammed into a 24-story building Monday, scraping off the building’s marble paneling and destroying several windows but injuring no one. At around 5:30 p.m., the fire crew, responding to a building alarm, turned right from Montgomery Street onto narrow Commercial Street, said Deputy Fire Chief Pat ...

SPARTA, GA - A Georgia firefighter died at the scene of an emergency medical call Saturday. Gary D. Stree spent that last five years as a member of the East Lake Sinclair Volunteer Fire Department. Street, 60, collapsed on the street from an apparent heart attack after moving a fire department squad so that a responding ambulance could access and transport ...

ALLENTOWN, Pa. - An eastern Pennsylvania man has pleaded guilty to accidentally starting a fire that killed his bedridden mother while he tried to get a cat to come out of hiding. Twenty-six-year-old Chad Matthew Lever pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter on Monday and was sentenced to two years' probation. Lever told police he flicked a lighter under his mother's bed ...

Picture Rocks and Northwest fire districts are beginning the second phase of deciding whether the two departments should join, Picture Rocks Fire Chief Kathy Duff-Stewart told more than 60 people packed into the Picture Rocks Community Center last week. Duff-Stewart was part of a panel discussion that included Northwest Fire Chief Jeff Piechura, Picture Rocks firefighter Alan Douglas and retired Picture ...

It became a makeshift memorial to the victims of the Sept. 11 attacks. Now a massive steel column has been returned to ground zero as a symbol of rebirth. After more than seven years in storage at a hangar at Kennedy International Airport, the 58-ton, 36-foot-tall beam was delivered before dawn Monday to the World Trade Center site. Column No. 1,0001 ...

CAROLINA BEACH - The Carolina Beach Fire Department is beginning training on its newest apparatus, and hopes are that the unit will help the town’s insurance rating. The Rosenbauer aerial cost $656,411.00 and was exhibited in Raleigh at the South Atlantic Fire Rescue Expo. The department is using the unit to replace an aging 75-foot aerial. The older unit will likely ...

Three members of the Whitwell Volunteer Fire Department (WVFD) were hospitalized Wednesday afternoon following a wreck involving one of the city’s fire trucks. According to Trooper Steven Bourque of the Tennessee Highway Patrol, the single vehicle accident occurred at approximately 2:35 p.m. after the westbound truck left the road and crashed into a ditch. Witnesses said they saw the truck forced ...

  DOT 166-09 Monday, October 19, 2009 Contact:  Patricia Klinger                  Joe Delcambre Tel:  (202) 366-4831 Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood Announces $20.9 Million for First Responders Funds Will Be Used to Improve Hazardous Materials Planning and Training Washington, D.C. – The U.S. Department of Transportation today announced that it is awarding $20.9 million to states, territories and Native American tribes ...

BRISBANE, AU - A PARAMEDIC and a rescue helicopter crewman have plunged 16m to the deck of a merchant ship while attempting to reach a sick sailor in the Torres Strait. An Australian Search and Rescue spokeswoman said the Horn Island rescue helicopter was tasked to the ship about 180 nautical miles west of Thursday Island on Monday afternoon following reports ...

YORK, PA - Lorraine Turman and her husband returned home from the grocery store Wednesday to hear that her niece had rushed one of her great-grandsons to the hospital for a broken leg. Then another great-grandson rushed out of her niece's home next door, yelling for help and saying "it's a fire." "Everything happened at the same time," Turman said while ...

HAINES JUNCTION, Yukon Territory — A veil of smoke settled over the forest in the shadow of the St. Elias Mountains, in a wilderness whose spruce trees stood tall and gray, a deathly gray even in the greenest heart of a Yukon summer. "As far as the eye can see, it's all infested," forester Rob Legare said, looking out over the ...

Submitted by: Charlotte Fire Department   Mecklenburg County   See more photos from Mike Porowski on this incident on the FireNews.net Flickr site. CHARLOTTE - On Tuesday September 8th, seventeen units from the Charlotte Fire Department including seven Engines, two Ladders, one Heavy Rescue, three Battalion Chiefs, one Deputy Chief, and three Fire Investigators responded to a reported structure fire ...

A man caught on camera celebrating his lottery ticket win at a grocery store is wanted on charges he stole from firefighters while they trained at a local park, police said Monday.Oregon City police said the thief hopped aboard a fire engine and stole a firefighter's wallet and three packs filled with emergency equipment. The theft happened Sept. 18 at High ...

LOS ANGELES — A homeless man was arrested and charged with arson for starting a tiny blaze in August near the spot where a gigantic wildfire erupted several days later, killing two firefighters, homicide detectives said Monday. [widget:featured_career_wildland_firefighter] Babatunsin Olukunle, 25, is the strongest lead to date in the arson investigation stemming from a fire that destroyed 89 homes, burned 250 ...