... two local firefighters fatally shot in the span of just under four months: as painful and frightening as that is, merrell says a firefighter's sense of duty will not diminish. the national fire protection association reports that 13 firefighters were shot and killed while responding to a fire, accident or other call from 1977 to 2005, a period of 28 years. ...    (Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch (MO) 314000 )

... photo: he said engine no. 4, which was en route to a fire with lights and siren activated, collided with a vehicle at the intersection, then slammed into a building, injuring all five firefighters on board, he said... related: 7 hurt in near north side car-fire engine collision    (Source: Chicago Sun-Times (IL) 383000 )

... they stood on the scarred earth, stared at the nine flags and listened to the words of two fire captains who battled the blaze that night. chris villarreal led the first crew in; mark davis, the last crew out alive. carr described the captains' talks as a "moving, powerful experience" and an invaluable tool for teaching the importance of firefighter safety. ...    (Source: Charleston Post & Courier (SC) 95700 )

... sacramento fire officials are gauging public support of a ballot measure that would forbid the city from reducing the number of fire engines in use everyday. chris harvey, a fire union representative, said thursday the measure has not been written, but that it would "prevent the city council from balancing the budget on the backs of public safety."   ...    (Source: Fire Engineering (NAT) 53100 )

... a st. louis firefighter who thought he was helping a motorist after a wreck wednesday evening instead found himself confronted by an armed carjacker who shot the firefighter and left him dying in the street ...    (Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch (MO) 314000 )

... in an open letter to the iafc, harold a. schaitberger, general president of the iaff, responded tuesday by saying "this is not an issue that welcomes or warrants an opinion from the iafc." he went on to call the statement an attempt to "meddle" in the iaff's internal affairs. ...    (Source: Fire Rescue (NAT) N/A )

... buffalo firefighters stunned many insiders when they rejected a contract tuesday that would have raised their pay 20 percent by 2011. firefighters blamed the contract's defeat on various factors, including a rush to approve the pact, concessions that many found distasteful and an intense "distrust" of buffalo's control board ...    (Source: The Buffalo News (NY) 303832 )

... despite devastating wildfires that ravaged san diego county twice in the last five years, voters there rejected a landowner's tax ballot measure that would have helped establish a county firefighting authority ...    (Source: CNBC (NAT) N/A )

... harris was upset with the police response time, and poked the officer in the chest.  pierce says harris was cuffed and taken downtown, where he was made to put on a striped jail suit ...    (Source: KRLD News Radio 1080 Dallas - Fort Worth (TX) N/A )

... photo/video: two workers are in critical condition after scaffolding collapsed today on the side of a river north building seven stories above the ground, leading to a dramatic mid-day rescue ...    (Source: Chicago Tribune (IL) 586000 )

... of felony murder and one count of first-degree arson. crying on the witness stand, misty ann weaver apologized to the families of the three ...    (Source: Fire Engineering (NAT) 53100 )

... it's a deal that has clark county fire officials not only heaving a sigh of relief, but smiling. a new fire house is under construction. an engine and two squads are on order, and it's not costing them a penny. mgm is picking up the tab. ...    (Source: Firehouse Magazine (NAT) 81500 )

... hacker and drake grabbed the line " hacker manned the nozzle and drake carried the hose. right behind them were harris with the thermal imaging camera and shaeffer behind him. as hacker and drake blasted the fire with water, harris began looking through his thermal imaging camera. ... related: man rescued in nick of time      (Source: Laconia Citizen (NH) N/A )

... although a group that sets international building codes has passed a requirement for sprinklers in new residential homes, fire officials in the carolinas fear adoption of the code won't be that simple....    (Source: The Sun News (SC) 49800 )

... a newburgh firefighter became an ad hoc surgeon friday, called upon to use a pneumatic saw to cut a piece of steel pipe off a 73-year-old man's ...    (Source: Middletown Times Herald-Record (NY) 80600 )

... off-duty chicago firefighters and paramedics have been ordered to take all of their gear home with them to speed deployment in the event of an emergency at barack obama's giant election night rally in grant park. ...    (Source: WBBM-TV CBS 2 Chicago (IL) N/A )

... video: two firefighters were in the hooversville volunteer fire co. 1994 mack tanker on falling timber road at 3:32 p.m. when the truck landed on its side while rounding a curve. fire chief james a. karashowsky said he had not talked to the firefighters and was not sure how the crash happened ...    (Source: Somerset Co. Daily American (PA) 13800 )

... a lightning-detection system is helping edmond firefighters determine the causes of some fires more quickly and with less expense. ...    (Source: KOCO-TV ABC 5 Oklahoma City (OK) N/A )

... the reporter this week cites several near misses that occur in course of a minor fire. there is one key phrase the reporter uses in his observations of the incident. this fire was the first the department had run in "quite some time." there is a suggestion that infrequency leads to incident scene performance that in isolated cases may not be show stopping, but left uncorrected could be a precursor to a more devastating outcome...    (Source: Fire Engineering (NAT) 53100 )

... a wildfire burned through grass and brush thursday, shutting a major freeway for several hours and forcing the nearby getty center to close for the day as a precaution. ...    (Source: Fox News (NAT) N/A )