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Posted: May 11, 2017

More than a dozen FDNY firefighters, court officers injured in fire at Brooklyn Criminal Court

A fire in Brooklyn Criminal Court injured eight state court officers and five firefighters and forced an early recess Wednesday afternoon. The 4:04 p.m. blaze on the sixth floor generated heavy smoke that led to the evacuation of the 10-story building in downtown Brooklyn. "There was a lot of smoke in the hallway," said one court staffer who declined to give his name.
- PUB DATE: 5/11/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: New York Daily News
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Posted: May 11, 2017

Iowa fire truck crashes into slough

VIDEO - A Fort Madison fire engine rolled into a slough along the Mississippi River on Wednesday night while responding to an accident. Thursday morning Fort Madison Fire Chief Joey Herren said that he was planning to get a crane to move the truck and the road will be closed until further notice. Chief Herren says the truck was headed down 35th Street when it slid off the edge of the gravel road.
- PUB DATE: 5/11/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WGEM-TV Quincy
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Posted: May 11, 2017

South Carolina Fire Captain Turns 80 And Celebrates 65 Years On The Job

Burton Fire District Capt. Ralph Neiderhiser celebrated his 80th birthday Tuesday. Sixty five of those years have been spent in fire service. “If you do what you enjoy, it ain’t (like) going to work,” he said Wednesday. Neiderhiser began his career as a volunteer with his father in Pennsylvania when he was 16, he said.
- PUB DATE: 5/11/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Island Packet
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Posted: May 11, 2017

Fire Truck Photo of the Day-Sutphen Pumper

Sylvania Township Fire Department pumper. Monarch cab and chassis; Hale Qmax 1,500-gpm pump; UPF Poly 750-gallon tank; 30-gallon foam cell.
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Posted: May 10, 2017

Oxford (MA) Fire Equipment Issue Nearly Had Fatal Consequences

Two Massachusetts firefighters were nearly killed at the start of this year when faulty equipment left their calls for help unanswered. The Auburn firefighters, Scott Davis and Lt. Justin Brigham, were called in to fight a fire at 604 Main St. in Oxford on Jan. 2. They made a mayday call, but no mayday was heard.

No one heard the mayday calls because Brigham's radio had been knocked to another frequency and couldn't talk to the radios owned by Oxford. An Oxford firefighter also could not communicate with dispatch.

"The use of 16-year-old radios for life safety purposes is unacceptable," the report read.

Oxford Fire Chief Sheri Bemis has repeatedly asked for money in the budget for new radios to replace the antiquated ones used that night.


"Since the mayday, that has been addressed," she confirmed.

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