As Syracuse firefighter Chris Duffy scaled down the side of the Jamesville Quarry he was calm as could be, despite hanging more than 80 feet over the base of the quarry. “I don’t think it could have gone any better,” Duffy said. Duffy and several other members of the Syracuse Fire Department were called to the quarry at 9:13 p.
- PUB DATE: 4/29/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Syracuse.com

A Hamilton firefighter was injured Thursday when he fell out of a fire truck while en route to a call in the Mercer County town on Wednesday. The firefighter was in the front passenger’s seat of the rig with its lights and sirens on just before 1:30 p.m. when the passenger door opened and he tumbled to the ground near the corner of Nottingham Way and Donald Drive, Hamilton police said.
- PUB DATE: 4/29/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: New Jersey Advance - NJ.com

VIDEO: Junior Fire cadets in New Market were getting in one last training session Thursday evening before heading off to the Warren County Junior Firefighter Competition in North Carolina this weekend. Market Junior Cadets are the reigning champions of the nationwide competition. It will be the first competition since 2019 after it was put on pause because of the pandemic.
- PUB DATE: 4/29/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WBIR-TV NBC 10 Knoxville

Throughout the early centuries, fires would rage in growing wooden-structured urban communities across the United States. Over the years, fire departments would begin with bucket brigades, pump, and eventually steam engines. But, as costly as fires are, the resources to fight them are as well. The Thibodaux Firemen’s Fair and Parade began both as revelry and a way to fund the fire department.
- PUB DATE: 4/29/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WGNO-TV ABC 26 New Orleans

Firefighters had their hands full with a difficult and dangerous fire inside a seed silo in Spokane Valley overnight. Spokane Valley firefighters were called to Spokane Seed on East Alki Avenue just after midnight on Friday for reports of a smoldering fire inside a multi-story storage silo. The fire created a major risk for firefighters with dust that was extremely flammable and had the potential to explode.
- PUB DATE: 4/29/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KREM-TV CBS 2 Spokane