Posted: Nov 17, 2016
BOSTON - A Boston emergency vehicle was involved in a crash Tuesday. Boston EMS said an ambulance was involved in a crash on Melnea Cass Boulevard. The other vehicle involved had heavy front-end damage. Two people were taken to the hospital with minor injuries.
Two people were taken to the hospital with minor injuries.
One of the people taken to the hospital was an EMS crew member. The other was an occupant of the other vehicle.
Boston EMS said additional patients being transported at the time of the collision did not suffer injuries from the crash and were taken to the hospital in a separate ambulance.
It is unclear how the crash happened.
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Posted: Nov 17, 2016
The N.C. Department of Labor has cited the Pineville Volunteer Fire Department after investigating the April 30 death of firefighter Richard Sheltra.
Sheltra, who was 20 years old and the department’s Rookie of the Year at the time, died fighting a blaze at the Edwin Watts Golf Store off Pineville-Matthews Road.
- PUB DATE: 11/17/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Charlotte Observer
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Posted: Nov 17, 2016
When a fire truck leaves a Houston fire station, every firefighter on that apparatus is being paid a salary by Houston taxpayers. However, at any given time, there may be a firefighter on a truck who is making hundreds of dollars in cash, on top of his salary.
"The way it is, you're getting paid, on top of getting paid," says a veteran Houston firefighter.
- PUB DATE: 11/17/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: ABC 13
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Posted: Nov 17, 2016
PHOTOS - Dozens of first responders in Georgia helped fulfill an Atlanta firefighter's dying wish as they escorted him from the hospital to his home in Forsyth County, where he will receive hospice care. Frank Martinez, 45, has battled Stage 4 cancer for several years and doesn't have much longer to live, his co-worker, Cortez R.
- PUB DATE: 11/17/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WAGA-TV Atlanta MyFox 5 News
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Posted: Nov 17, 2016
When a fire in a nearby mobile home awakened them, several residents of the Broadview Park neighborhood off Peters Road anxiously called 911, urging dispatchers to get help there quick. They knew that 12-year-old Ana Hernandez Marrero and her 51-year-old father, Armando Hernandez Valdez, were inside the small trailer as the flames grew.
- PUB DATE: 11/17/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WPLG-TV ABC Local10.com - Miami & Fort Lauderdale
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