ORLANDO, Fla.
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An Orange County firefighter and four pedestrians were injured Sunday morning after a car veered into the scene of an earlier crash.
Public information officer Genevieve Latham said that about 8:18 a.m., firefighters from Station 37 were dispatched to a crash in the area involving a motorcycle and another vehicle.
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The Telegraph, Alton, Ill.
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Feb. 12--ROSEWOOD HEIGHTS -- Justin Wilkinson never let his development of a new rescue device drag him down and is confident that it will carry firefighters to safety.
The 25-year-old firefighter with the Rosewood Heights Fire Protection District designed a harness that can be used to remove downed firefighters. The design has a patent pending.
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PALM BAY, Fla.
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Fire investigators told Eyewitness News that there is a dangerous arsonist in Palm Bay. Since the beginning of 2010, someone has set 34 brush fires across the city and another one was set Thursday.
The city of Palm Bay was badly burned by a series of fires started by arsonists two years ago. Dozens of homes were lost and it seemed the entire city was engulfed in a cloud of smoke.
Fire investigators were dealing something similar Thursday. They believe someone is driving around purposely setting fires.
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An explosion in a transformer underneath a Manhattan sidewalk sent flames up the front of a landmark building Thursday, shattering windows and blackening the front of several stories. No injuries were reported.
Consolidated Edison spokesman Christopher Olert said the transformer was in a vault below the front of the seven-story building.
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A Milwaukee firefighter was hit by a car Thursday afternoon at the intersection of Holton Street and Keefe Avenue.
Engine 18 was responding to a two-car accident.
"I was sitting at the stop light waiting to turn and I got hit from behind," said Linda Brazil, who was in the accident.
The fire department's spokeswoman said Engine 18 was called to the scene of a car crash at 4:12 p.m. While at the scene another car struck the firefighter and fled the scene.
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FRANKLIN, N.H.
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HARPER WOODS, Mich.
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A firefighter on a cruise vacation jumped into action when he saw a toddler choking and is being credited for saving the little boy's life.
"If he hadn't done what he did, I wouldn't be holding him right now. I know that," said Alisha Marchand, whose 14-month-old son Ian, started choking while the family ate dinner at a restaurant in the Bahamas last month.
The Monroe family was on a Disney Cruise, the same one Harper Woods Fire Captain Charles Randles and his family happened to be on.
Feedname: IBSRSSIt has been my privilege to be in the forefront of a number of different educational efforts within the fire service which have long held up the goal of professionalizing our field of endeavor as its primary goal. Many have been the battles with folks who never could see the need for fire service people to have a college education. However, that did not stop those among us who felt the need for advancing our chose career field.
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The eyes of the world are on Vancouver as the 2010 Winter Olympic Games begin with the opening ceremony.
Providing emergency medical services for the estimated 5,500 athletes and the hundreds of thousands of spectators flooding the two main venues will be a daunting task, but Bob Alexander has a plan and he's ready.
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A Savannah firefighter was injured after becoming pinned between a ladder truck and his engine that rolled away at the scene of a fire early this morning, according to the Savannah Morning News.
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A Dexter Area Fire Authority firefighter suffered minor injures in crash after he hit and out of control car yesterday afternoon, according to AnnArbor.com.
The crash occurred at approximately 2:20 p.m. on Dexter-Pinckney Road when a 64-year-old motorist lost control of his vehicle while yielding to the oncoming fire truck, which had its lights and siren activated.
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A Pennsylvania Department of Transportation snowplow driver found a house engulfed in flames in Centre County late Tuesday.
Officials said the truck driver spotted and orange glow through the wood and called for help.
Little was left of the home on Black Moshannon Road in Rush Township.
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Federal and New York authorities said they "got lucky" when they found two men making crystal methamphetamine in a room at the Stone Helm Motel in Beekmantown.
One of the agents investigating the case, Drug Enforcement Administration Agent David Leu, told NewsChannel 5 that officials just happened to stumble across the alleged operation Wednesday.
"Today, we just got lucky -- right place, right time," Leu said. "Any meth lab in northern New York is significant, no matter the size it is."
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DECATUR, Ga.
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Two fired DeKalb firefighters spoke out for the first time about a deadly fire in Dunwoody last month.
Fire Apparatus Officer Jeff Greene and former Capt. Tony Motes defended their actions at the home of Ann Bartlett. The 74-year-old called 911 to report a fire at 1:03 a.m. Firefighters responded, but left the scene after seeing no signs of smoke or flames. They never went up to the house. Bartlett died when her home burned to the ground hours later.
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LINN VALLEY, Kan. -- The fire chief of Linn Valley was killed in an accident at the Linn Valley Lakes Fire Department on Wednesday afternoon.
According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, the fire truck driver was attempting to back up the truck but accidentally pinned Chief Stanley Giles, 69, in between the truck and another vehicle, killing him.
The incident is under investigation.
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Web exclusive: 0Web exlusive Memberzone only: 0 Feedname: IBSRSSLet me begin this missive to my fire service buddies by suggesting that the cold winter weather here in New Jersey is wreaking havoc with my front porch-sitting, cigar-puffing, thinking-chair sessions. Ladies and gentlemen, I have been forced to conduct a strategic, retrograde retreat to the safety of my super-sized Lazy-Boy recliner. Let me also share the fact that Mrs. Carter don't allow no seegar smokin' in her home. I can chew on them, but there is no interior firing up of a heater in our home.
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Recently we were on our way to the local civic arena to test the latest crop of rookie in their job skills abilities. Our department uses this test to measure the skill level that a new person has achieved in the first year of joining our department.
I arrive on the ambulance that day to see the 105-foot ladder truck sitting up proud and beautiful against the sixth floor wall of the parking garage. The guys are finishing up the final preparations to administer the test. While we are waiting I noticed a captain climbing the ladder.
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The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio
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Feb. 7--A Columbus firefighter remained hospitalized today after suffering a heart attack at a house fire last night.
Lt. Mike Polaski, 61, was in critical condition in the intensive-care unit at Riverside Methodist Hospital, Battalion Chief David Whiting said.
"He's going to be there a couple days," Whiting said.
Polaski, a 37-year Fire Division veteran who works out of Station 16 at Weber and McGuffey roads in North Linden, was the first officer on the scene at 1831 Roberts St.
Feedname: TRIBUNEFire department officers should also be aware of the "minor" changes in a community, changes that occur so gradually that most people are barely aware of them. For example, vacant lots are filled in, industrial interests are relocated, a small farm is sold to a real estate developer, and zoning ordinances are changed to attract more business and people.
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I've washed all my work out clothes….cleaned out my car….stored all my classroom notes and textbooks on the shelf….read the newspaper reports of the graduation and the now fulfilled dreams of my classmates….and slept a full 8 hours last night for the first time in months.
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