As war has overtaken Ukraine, and Russian weapons inflict damage, social media gives the world glimpses of Ukrainian firefighters continuing to serve their mission, despite the obstacles.
See below as they use hoses and other various equipment to do their job.
Posted: Mar 2, 2022
Ferrara—Beverley (MA) Fire Department HD-107 rear-mount aerial ladder. Inferno cab and chassis; Cummins X12 500-hp engine; Harrison 8-kW generator; 107-foot aerial ladder with 750-tip load flowing 1,500 gpm; prepiped 1,500-gpm waterway. Dealer: Linus Murphy, Bulldog Fire Apparatus, Woodville, MA.
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Posted: Mar 2, 2022
A home exploded on Millers Court Tuesday afternoon in O’Fallon, Missouri. The St. Charles Ambulance District says that there are no injuries. The cause of the explosion is currently under investigation. Initial reports indicate that the fire department was called to the scene for a gas leak.
First responders have the fire under control.
- PUB DATE: 3/2/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KTVI-TV FOX 2 St. Louis
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Posted: Mar 2, 2022
The Los Angeles City Council voted Tuesday to confirm the appointment of Deputy Chief Kristin Crowley who will become the first woman to lead the Los Angeles Fire Department.
The appointment would be effective March 26, when Chief Ralph Terrazas is scheduled to retire.
"I think it's so fitting for this nomination to come to council today, on the first day of Women's History Month,'' Council President Nury Martinez said.
- PUB DATE: 3/2/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KNBC-TV NBC 4 Los Angeles
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Posted: Mar 2, 2022
PHOTOS: Fire officials this week took to social media to remember a firebombing at a local mattress factory that the FBI classified at the time as the “largest arson case” nationwide.
Tuesday marked 47 years since an enormous blaze ripped through the B.F. Goodrich Sponge Rubber mattress factory — now, the site of the city’s riverwalk — in one of the biggest industrial arson cases to hit the nation.
- PUB DATE: 3/2/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: New Haven Register
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