By incredible odds, off-duty Providence Fire Lt. Robert McCollough happened to be driving along Hawkins Street around noon Thursday when he saw smoke emanating from a two-story house at 342 Hawkins St.
McCollough pulled over and parked the AAA tow truck he drives as a second job. "Two men were on the sidewalk, screaming to someone inside. - PUB DATE: 12/30/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Providence Journal
The family of a woman who died after going without oxygen for 17 minutes filed a lawsuit against a call center and first responders.
Laurelyn Wagner-Pitts, 60, went into cardiac arrest July 30; she died in August after her family decided to take her off a ventilator. Her husband, Randy Pitts, called 911 after Wagner-Pitts began to make “funny noises and had a look on her face,” reported the Joliet Patch. - PUB DATE: 12/30/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: EMS1
A City of Miami firefighter thanked his colleagues at Miami-Dade Fire Rescue, Thursday, for saving his son’s life, just before Christmas.
Miami-Dade Fire Rescue responded to a house fire on Southwest 112th Avenue, last Friday, and found Anthony Villa lying on the ground unconscious.
“He happened to be in cardiac arrest,” Miami Fire Rescue Chief Maurice Kemp said, “which, as you know, it doesn’t get any worse than that. - PUB DATE: 12/30/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WSVN.com
An FDNY EMS ambulance struck and killed an elderly man walking in the passing lane of the Cross Island Parkway in Queens Tuesday night, police and fire sources said.
The pedestrian, an 89-year-old man, was walking on the southbound side of the parkway near 109th Ave in Queens Village at about 8:20 p. - PUB DATE: 12/29/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: New York Daily News
Denver Fire Capt. Steven Holtz stretched across a treatment table at the Rocky Mountain Fire Academy as a physical therapist wrapped a thick red rubber band around his arm and began pulling Holtz’s arm over his head and back down.
The physical therapist, Casey Stoneberger, worked to extend Holtz’s range of motion as he recovers from surgery to repair a torn rotator cuff and biceps tendon. - PUB DATE: 12/29/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Denver Post
The pending murder trial and investigations after the death of Hamilton firefighter Patrick Wolterman one year ago today have taken their toll on the Hamilton Fire Department.
“We still see guys having troubles,” Tony Harris, president of Hamilton IAFF Local 20, told the Journal-News last week after a court hearing for the man accused in Wolterman’s death. - PUB DATE: 12/29/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Journal-News
Once upon a shift, there was a newly promoted captain. Hearing the tones for a bicycle accident, he moved to the rig, confident in himself and his crew.
On arrival, the scene moved like ballet — firefighters on the victim dislodging legs and arms from twisted tubing with medics patching an apparent wound to the head. - PUB DATE: 12/29/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: FireRescue1
A teenager is recovering after being pinned under a 1,500-pound boulder in her grandma’s backyard.
Brianne Griffith, 15, was playing on a formation of boulders in the backyard of the home on Vineyard Way in White, Georgia, when one broke loose.
“It’s a natural rock formation that’s been there for no telling how long,” Bartow County EMS spokesman Brad Cothran said. - PUB DATE: 12/29/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: wsbtv.com
A Henrico firefighter has been suspended without pay from work over comments he allegedly made on Facebook.
NBC12 is choosing not to identify the firefighter because he has not been charged with a crime.
In part, the comments posted read that a woman was "trying to find her black baby daddy...so she can get an EBT card and a check. - PUB DATE: 12/28/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: NBC12.com
A town firefighter who was also the freshman boys basketball coach at St. Joseph High School in Trumbull died suddenly at home on Monday, as firefighters and medics worked to save him.
Jason “Jay’’ Carrafiello, 38, “was an outstanding firefighter and was held in high regard by all of the officers and firefighters,’’ town Fire Chief Robert McGrath said. - PUB DATE: 12/28/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: CTPOST.com
VIDEO: Minneapolis fire crews rescued a man in his 30s after his car went careening down a 200-yard embankment along the Mississippi River.
Responders say the crash happened around 5:15 a.m. Tuesday. It wasn't until about 8:15 a.m. when two Minneapolis Public Works employees spotted the car near the water. - PUB DATE: 12/28/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: kare11.com
Some Allegany County legislators are seeking to have federal officials make it a federal capital offense to murder local police and first responders.
The Allegany County Board of Legislators will consider a resolution today asking the area’s federal representatives in Congress to introduce and support a law setting a mandatory death penalty for anyone convicted of targeting and murdering state and local law enforcement or first responders. - PUB DATE: 12/28/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Olean Times Herald
Three years ago, the Gardiner Ambulance Service was struggling to pay its bills.
“We were facing a financial situation where we just weren’t taking in enough cash each year,” Scott Morelli, Gardiner city manager, said. The Gardiner Ambulance Service, staffed by the Gardiner Fire Department, provides emergency medical transportation services to Gardiner and its surrounding towns, and the towns pay to support the service. - PUB DATE: 12/28/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: centralmaine.com
The Honolulu Fire Department has received two separate citations in connection with a training incident that led to the death of a firefighter in June.
HFD says it’s taking corrective action after the death of 63-year-old Clifford Riggsbee, who died from injuries sustained during a training exercise at an area called Suicides near Diamond Head. - PUB DATE: 12/27/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: khon2.com
Six diesel ambulances with systemic exhaust problems have sickened Sacramento firefighters enough to send them to local emergency rooms as patients, the firefighters union and city said Friday.
The city of Sacramento has removed those ambulances from the firefighting fleet and is planning to replace another eight units that may develop a similar problem. - PUB DATE: 12/27/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Sacramento Bee
If you want to understand how badly Democrats lost the white working class in the 2016 election, your local fire station is not a bad place to start.
Nearly 85 percent of professional firefighters are white, and more than 95 percent are men, making them look a lot like the other blue-collar voters who surged to Donald Trump this year. - PUB DATE: 12/27/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: NBC News
An Austin-Travis County Emergency Medical Services ambulance was hijacked Sunday afternoon at approximately 4 p.m. with a medic crew and patient inside.
According to an ATCEMS spokesperson, the medic crew was on scene for a different call at 500 E. 7th St., the Austin Resource Center for the Homeless (ARCH) when an individual hijacked the ambulance while the medic team was tending to a patient. - PUB DATE: 12/27/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: kxan.com
The mayday came minutes after firefighters arrived at a 3-alarm blaze that’s believed to have started about 9 p.m. Thursday with an overloaded extension cord in the bedroom of a second-floor apartment at 11 Ashton Place in Methuen. One of them was trapped — and running out of air.
A rapid intervention team trained specifically to rescue firefighters was en route from Salem, N. - PUB DATE: 12/27/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Boston Herald
Women firefighters in Vancouver faced greater scrutiny because of their gender and were criticized when they raised concerns about adult magazines left in the workplace and a lack of privacy in the restrooms, according to an investigation obtained by The Columbian.
The report highlighted the difficulty the women faced when trying to speak freely about their work environment. - PUB DATE: 12/22/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Columbian
Steven Wilson escaped a serious crash on Sunday morning involving a tractor-trailer and a fire truck with only a few cuts and scrapes, but he could have been hurt much worse.
The Smiths Grove Volunteer Fire Department responded to three collisions on Interstate 65 that morning, which had occurred due to icy road conditions. - PUB DATE: 12/22/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Glasgow Daily Times
