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The fire happened last month on St. Albans Street and firefighters had no idea what they were about to encounter. Flames burned a whole through the first floor and immediately collapsed when firefighters made their way through the front door. One firefighter fell through the floor but managed to spread his arms across the hole which kept him from falling into the basement below which was fully engulfed in flames.
- PUB DATE: 2/3/2012 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: kstp.com

What are the odds of a Vacaville firefighter on a medical call, almost literally, stumbling onto property stolen from his garage a week before? "It was really hard to believe," 20-year veteran firefighter Louis Jones said. Jones was answering a routine medical call at a mobile home park on Sunset Dr
- PUB DATE: 2/3/2012 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: .news10.net

Fire spokesperson Mark Brady says that a Prince George's County Firefighter is hospitalized in "good" condition after receiving an electrical shock at a Fire/EMS Station on Wednesday. According to Brady, the firefighter was unplugging a shoreline, a heavy-duty electrical cord connected from an outlet to a fire engine, at the Beltsville Fire/EMS Station 831.
- PUB DATE: 2/3/2012 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: wusa9.com

Out of town trips with family members, lavish dinners, and expensive bar tabs, all on the taxpayer dime. A series of 4 Investigates reports revealed top officials in the Harvey Volunteer Fire Department #2 were making questionable purchases with public funds. Now one of those officials has been arrested.
- PUB DATE: 2/3/2012 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: wwltv.com

The Redondo Beach Fire Department wants your vote—and the normally camera-shy group of firefighters have even put together a video to prove it. On Thursday afternoon, the firefighters posted their music video, "We Cook Our Food in a Hopeless Place," sung to Rihanna's "We Found Love," on YouTube in hopes that it would go viral.
- PUB DATE: 2/3/2012 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: redondobeach.patch.com

Funeral services are pending for a St. Charles firefighter who was found dead in his bed this morning at a firehouse. Douglas "Doug" Haase, 60, of Troy, Mo., apparently died of natural causes.Haase went to bed late last night after running a call, and his shift was supposed to end at 7:30 this morning, said fire department spokesman Dan Casey.
- PUB DATE: 2/2/2012 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: stltoday.com

Kyle Ienn was remembered Tuesday by friends and colleagues as a dedicated firefighter, a national expert on fireworks safety and the fire chief who brought growth and national recognition to the Ralston Volunteer Fire Department. "Kyle sees the big picture, way beyond Ralston," said Mike Bolte, a retired firefighter who served with Ienn.
- PUB DATE: 2/2/2012 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: omaha.com

As students return for the start of the spring semester across the country, some colleges and universities have been put on alert following a spate of six significant campus-related fires that took place in mid- to late-January. Ed Comeau, publisher of Campus Firewatch and a former chief fire investigator for the NFPA, said that while the number of fires has raised some alarm, it's not uncommon for them to occur as a new semester approaches.
- PUB DATE: 2/2/2012 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: firehouse.com

As a firefighter with the Orange County Fire Rescue, Lucas Sloan is trained to jump into action during an emergency. That's exactly what he did on Sunday morning when he just happened to be driving in to work on Interstate 75 from his home in Gainesville when he came upon the massive pileup. "Upon stopping my car, I heard accidents happening around me, I heard cars screeching and crashes occurring, it wasn't until we started walking that we were able to see the actual accident, cause besides that there was no visibility," Sloan said.
- PUB DATE: 2/2/2012 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: myfoxorlando.com

The high-profile head of Albuquerque's firefighters union has been suspended without pay for violating the city's personnel rules. The city suspended union president Diego Arencon for falsifying time-keeping records, being involved in politics while on duty and improperly using city email.
- PUB DATE: 2/2/2012 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: www.koat.com

PHOTOS: Authorities were trying to figure out why a car that was initially stopped near an intersecton started moving again and was struck by a fire engine hustling through an intersection to get to a fire alarm call this evening in the West Pullman neighborhood. Five of the six people in the car were seriously hurt, including three children, authorities said.
- PUB DATE: 2/1/2012 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: chicagotribune.com

The Los Angeles Fire Department must pay almost $500,000 to settle a case filed on behalf of a male firefighter who was harassed by coworkers over a sexual abuse suit linked to the Catholic Church. Anthony Almeida, a firefighter and engineer with the department, filed a discrimination charge with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in 2007, alleging that he was continually harassed by fellow firefighters at his station.
- PUB DATE: 2/1/2012 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: los angele times

An administrative law judge has upheld discipline imposed on two firefighters in connection with a prank at a Bibb County fire station involving a masked man threatening firefighters. Firefighter Christopher Hughes was fired following the Sept. 18 prank that targeted rookie firefighters. Sgt. Joshua Brewer was demoted to the rank of private and suspended 10 days without pay.
- PUB DATE: 2/1/2012 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: .macon.com

Research in recent decades has challenged long-held assumptions about how flames spread and the tell-tale signs they leave. “Our scientific understandings have improved in recent years, and the effect of that has to be to say, `We’ve got some innocent people who’ve been declared guilty based on misunderstandings,“’ said John Hall, director of analysis and research for the National Fire Protection Association.
- PUB DATE: 2/1/2012 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: dispatch.com

Dave Bremer was on his way home from Bible study Saturday night when he ran into the rear of the minivan in front of him. What Orlando police say happened next shocked Bremer — and, he said, left him with injuries so severe that he'll need time to recover before he can go back to work as a contractor.
- PUB DATE: 2/1/2012 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: orlandosentinel.com

VIDEO: Traffic is moving again after a deadly crash involving a fire truck shut down part of I-40 in Fayette County. One man died in the crash and two firefighters were airlifted to the Med. The pumper truck protected the men who were found lying on the ground next to it after a Ford truck pulling a trailer left the east bound lane and ran into the median crashing into the Braden fire truck.
- PUB DATE: 1/31/2012 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: wmctv.com

Chambersburg Fire Department Captain Patrick Martin has been suspended without pay for 240 working hours for "conduct unbecoming of an officer." During a special meeting Monday, Chambersburg Borough Council unanimously voted to suspend Martin after he sent an Oct. 26 letter to International Association of Fire Fighters members asking they support IAFF by "refraining from providing volunteer firefighting services to the Borough of Chambersburg.
- PUB DATE: 1/31/2012 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: fire engineering

A federal jury on Monday awarded $189,000 to two Pasco firefighters after determining the local firefighters union and the county retaliated against the two men for filing discrimination claims. Most of the verdict – $166,000 – was assessed against the International Association of Firefighters Local 4420 for publishing a legal memo in April 2008 that named the two firefighters and called their claims "frivolous.
- PUB DATE: 1/31/2012 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: tampabay.com

Jackson Fire Chief Raymond McNulty has put his firefighters on notice not to post inaccurate information or comments harmful to the department on their social network sites. They also cannot post photos of themselves in uniform or posing with city equipment. ... McNulty issued the memo this week providing department guidelines on social media in the wake of a Facebook posting from a former fire official that only two of 28 city fire recruits had passed a minimum standards test.
- PUB DATE: 1/31/2012 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: clarionledger.com

Coliseum Health System CEO Allen Golson was alive and talking to his wife Friday in the moments after the twin-engine airplane he was piloting crash-landed in Florida. "We could see him, but we couldn’t get him out,” off-duty firefighter Caleb Munden said by phone Monday. “You couldn’t see a whole lot with the fire extinguishers and the smoke from the fire.
- PUB DATE: 1/31/2012 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: macon.com