Seven people were hurt in a crash between a D.C. firetruck and a van in Northeast D.C. Wednesday morning. The accident was reported around 9:40 a.m. at 11th Street and Maryland Avenue NE. A D.C. Fire & EMS spokesperson said D.C. Fire Engine 10 was responding on a call for a gas leak when the collision occurred.
- PUB DATE: 3/9/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: nbc washington

At some point the words lactic acid or acidosis has been put forth in a firefighter class on cardiac arrest, fitness or maybe in a heat cramps lecture. You hear lactic acid and lactate used interchangeably by fire and EMS educators or those talking about acidosis as a reference to muscle breakdown. The truth is that there is a difference between lactate and lactic acid.
- PUB DATE: 3/9/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: firerescue1

Don’t play with fire – that’s the message a bill before the S.C. Legislature aims to send to would-be arsonists. House Bill 3545 will restructure degrees of arson if the bill becomes law. Right now, state law doesn’t differentiate between type of buildings burned, and only levels a first-degree arson charge – the most serious kind – when there is a death, according to Jason Pope, deputy director of the South Carolina Firefighters Association.
- PUB DATE: 3/9/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: the state

When an explosion ripped into three buildings Wednesday morning in Seattle’s Greenwood neighborhood, a firefighter on duty put in an urgent call for backup. “Battalion Six, I need a full response … I have firefighters missing!”
- PUB DATE: 3/9/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Seattle Times

When an explosion ripped into three buildings Wednesday morning in Seattle’s Greenwood neighborhood, a firefighter on duty put in an urgent call for backup. “Battalion Six, I need a full response … I have firefighters missing!”
- PUB DATE: 3/9/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Seattle Times