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Mass. fire chief denies firefighters swine flu shots By Shawn Regan The Eagle-Tribune HAVERHILL, Mass. — Fire Chief Richard Borden ordered the city's nurse not to give the H1N1 vaccine to his firefighters yesterday, partly because his deputies didn't check with him first. The city received a round of vaccinations for the highly-contagious swine flu to give out to public safety officials. ...

FRANKTON — Emotions and tempers ran high Wednesday during a special meeting called by the Frankton fire chief to explain the desperate financial condition of the local fire department. Frankton Fire Chief Rob Amick told a crowd of more than 100 that his fire department is not receiving enough funding to effectively run the fire department. Amick has taken out ...

Firefighter Killed In Owen Co. KY Crash Sunday, September 13, 2009 - A firefighter is dead after responding to a crash site in Owen County. Officers said Terry Sharon, 60, was heading eastbound in a 1978 Ford F350 fire truck along Sawdridge Creek Road in response to a crash. Police said the first crash happened at about 12:33 a.m. just south of ...

Firefighters who responded to a "scene from hell" after a gas pipeline explosion near Carlsbad in August 2000 won the right from the New Mexico Supreme Court to sue for emotional distress. Today, their attorneys begin trying to persuade a jury that they are entitled to damages from El Paso Natural Gas Company for what they allege was a lack of ...

Calif. town sees 16th car arson in one week By Henry K. Lee The San Francisco Chronicle CONTRA COSTA, Calif. — Another car was set on fire early Tuesday in west Contra Costa County, bringing to 16 the number of arson attacks on vehicles in the area in the past week, authorities said as they searched for a possible suspect. A ...

MIAMI - A Continental Airlines flight with 26 injured people made an emergency landing at Miami International Airport this morning. Four are reported in serious condition. Continental Flight 128 had left Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with 168 people on board and was scheduled to arrive in Houston. But it experienced heavy turbulence this morning and had to be diverted to Miami, ...

A firefighter was injured battling a fire that gutted a two-story house off Dixie Highway on Thursday afternoon. The fire at 2211 W. Burnett Ave. in the Park Hill neighborhood broke out around 1:50 p.m., said Sgt. Sal Melendez, a Louisville Fire & Rescue spokesman. The firefighter who was injured stepped through a burned floor and suffered blunt trauma to his ...

PHILADELPHIA - By neighborhood estimates, the Ermilio family has owned its two-story South Philadelphia rowhouse for 80 years, at least. Yesterday, the home was blackened from smoke, its gaping windows covered in plywood, after a fire killed Robert Ermilio, 74, and his sister, Madeline Hart, 68. On a block where ownership is defined in generations, not years, the loss of two ...

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Wednesday, November 11, 2009 - A Philadelphia Firefighter was injured this evening while they responded to a run. The incident happened at 24th and Synder. The Firefighter was transported as a "Trauma Alert" with stable vital signs. The 40 year old firefighter was reported seriously injured. More details as they become availible.  

The tradition of bagpipes played at fire and police department funerals in the United States goes back over one hundred fifty years. Due to discrimination in the 1840s, the only jobs that Irish immigrants could get were the ones no one else wanted. Because they were considered dirty and dangerous, firefighting and police officer roles were the most popular. When ...

PITTSFIELD, MA - More than two dozen firefighters from seven Berkshire departments took part in a Saturday afternoon ceremony at the Crowne Plaza to celebrate completion of a rigorous, 10-month training program funded by a federal grant. The Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response (SAFER) grant -- a four-year award that primarily funds education, training and recruitment for fire-and-rescue efforts ...

WASHINGTON - Police across the region are investigating several brazen crimes involving thieves who use the Jaws of Life. The crimes have been committed in broad daylight, while frightened store employees and customers watch. All of the incidents have been at gas stations or convenience stores. Police say two to three men carrying firefighting tools walk inside wearing hoods and heavy ...

a victim that died in a Brooklyn fire was found tied up. The body was so badly burned that it could not immediately be identified. The fire was reported just after midnight at 395 Warwick Avenue. More than 100 firefighters rushed to the scene.  It took about an hour to get the flames under control. After the fire was out, they ...

PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY, MD - A Prince George' County grand jury has indicted two firefighters on charges of arson in connection with a fire set at a vacant building in Riverdale in 2008, county State's Attorney Glenn F. Ivey announced Oct. 5. The firefighters are Jerome "Jerry" Engle, 46, of Bowie, a longtime volunteer firefighter with various volunteer departments in the ...

MIAMI - The firefighters who hop every day into the lime green truck at Miami-Dade County's Station 19 were the busiest in North America last year. According to Firehouse magazine, which listed the fire stations in North America that responded to the most calls in 2008, the station at 650 NW 131st St. beat all others by a long shot. Firefighters ...

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Sunday, September 13, 2009 - A firefighter is dead after responding to a crash site in Owen County. Officers said Terry Sharon, 60, was heading eastbound in a 1978 Ford F350 fire truck along Sawdridge Creek Road in response to a crash.

Russell Crowe is in Pittsburgh shooting his upcoming film, "The Next Three Days"--but yesterday the stunts were live when a Pittsburgh fire truck hit the van he and his co-star, Elizabeth Banks, were in! Captain Clark from the Deutschtown Fire Station stated the cast and crew were filming outside the  fire station #32, when the engine tried to back up into the ...

NEW HAVEN — A police officer was reprimanded for an incident in which he handcuffed a firefighter at a medical call in Fair Haven, the police chief said. The fire chief said he planned no discipline. “I suspect if they both had a chance to step back, they both would have done something differently,” said police Chief James Lewis. “I think ...