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JUST IN: The procession for the fallen @KCMOFireDept firefighter who died today after a training exercise just left North Kansas City Hospital. @kcpolice escorted the first responders colleagues & others out of the parking lot. More to come today on @KCTV5. pic.twitter.com/uwDEqmzr4o

— Alex Love (@AlexKCTV5) September 17, 2024

A veteran firefighter-paramedic from Kansas City passed away Tuesday following a medical emergency during a training exercise.

The incident occurred around 11:45 a.m. at Station 35, a high-traffic station within the city. Despite immediate medical attention and transport to the hospital, the firefighter died around 1 p.m., KMBC reports.

The firefighter, a 10-year member of the Rescue Division, was widely recognized for his dedication.

In a statement, the Kansas City Fire Department expressed deep sorrow and extended condolences to his family and colleagues, offering support and grief counseling to department members, KMBC reports.

Visit KMBC for more.

Louisburg Fire Department Captain Thomas “Ray” Patterson, 74, died Sunday after responding to a call out for a motor vehicle collision.

The US Fire Administration reported:

On September 12, 2024, Captain Thomas Patterson responded to two emergency calls. The first response was at 1:12 p.m. to a vehicle collision. The second response was at 2:30 p.m. to a fire alarm activation. After the responses, Captain Patterson returned home where, at approximately 3:25 p.m., he was found unresponsive and passed away.

His obituary is online here.

By Alan M. Petrillo

Paterson (NJ) Fire Department is experiencing a lot of congestion in the city, with tight streets loaded with parked cars on many roads, and new buildings going up with ground floor parking garages that only allow one parking space per apartment on the four upper stories, meaning more cars and trucks are spilling out onto city streets to find parking spots.

Mike Cleenput, Paterson’s deputy chief, says “With all these five story buildings, the garage overflow is going onto the streets, with vehicles parked corner to corner on every street. We’ve had a lot of hits on midship pumper compartments while making tight turns with our top-mount pumpers, and we wanted a smaller apparatus to combat those situations.” Cleenput notes the department chose Ferrara to build side-mount pumpers that would reduce the wheelbase and overall length, and provide a low hosebed to keep firefighters from having to get on top of the rig.

Paul Christiansen, apparatus manager for Firefighter One, who sold three side-mount pumpers to Paterson, says the pumpers are built on Cinder chassis and cabs with seating for five firefighters, four of them in H.O. Bostrom self-contained breathing apparatus (SCBA) seats with SecureAll™ brackets, with an emergency medical services (EMS) cabinet behind the driver’s seat. The rigs each have a wheelbase of 188 inches, an overall length of 32 feet one inch, an overall height of 9 feet, and are powered by a 450-horsepower (hp) Cummins L9 engine, and an Allison 3000 EVS automatic transmission.

Christiansen notes that each pumper has a Ferrara extruded aluminum body, ROM roll-up compartment doors, a Hale Qmax 1,750-gallon-per-minute pump, and a 750-gallon polypropylene L-shaped water tank for a low hosebed, which, left to right, holds 200 feet of preconnected 2-1/2-inch hose, 300 feet of preconnected 1-3/4-inch hose, 800 feet of 5-inch large diameter hose (LDH), 200 feet of preconnected 1-3/4-inch hose, and 500 feet of 2-1/2-inch hose split into two preconnected 250 foot lays. There’s also one 2-1/2-inch hose crosslay over the pump panel, 200 feet of 1-3/4-inch hose in a front bumper compartment, and an Akron Brass Apollo 3426 deck gun with a StreamShaper nozzle and quad tips.

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