Ten sailors aboard a U.S. Navy vessel were injured Wednesday after a jet on the ship caught fire, officials said.
The incident occurred on USS John C. Stennis Wednesday afternoon in waters near southern California, the Navy said.
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Four of the sailors were flown to the Naval Medical Center in San Diego and were in stable condition.
As the four-year anniversary of the Sofa Super Store disaster approaches, the city is working to turn the site into a more fitting memorial for the nine Charleston firefighters who died there.Read more HERE.
Long-term plans for a permanent memorial and Fire Department building where the Sofa Super Store once stood are unfunded and years away, but in the meantime Charleston will create a grass-covered, landscaped site with unique memorial markers for the nine, replacing what is now a parking lot and field where nine simple markers hold small flags.
The $45,000 cost for improving the memorial site will be a mix of city money and donated funds. Site work began this week.
Lightning is believed to have ignited a fire at a remote residential property Wednesday afternoon in East Arlington that badly damaged a building and sent one firefighter to the hospital.
The fire started about 3 p.m. at a pool house adjacent to a home on a dirt road about a mile from the 13000 block of Mount Pleasant Road, Jacksonville fire department spokesman Tom Francis said.
An off-duty Newton firefighter was hailed a hero today after he rushed into a burning house, with no protective gear, raced up to the second floor and rescued a family of three.
Firefighter Nick McGrath entered the multi-family house at 16 Auburndale Ave. and broke down the family's door after a woman running out of the first floor told him that people were still inside, Newton Fire Chief Bruce Proia said tonight.
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The husband, wife, and their young child were unaware that a fire was quickly beginning to rage, he said. McGrath made sure the three were safe, before he ran back inside to check the third floor of the three-decker for anyone else who might be inside.
One Chillicothe firefighter has new job duties on each shift - walking around the firehouse to make sure the place isn't on fire.
Chillicothe Fire Station No.1, the only one staffed in the city following budget cuts, is officially considered a potential fire hazard.
The fire-detection and alarm system at the main station downtown on Water Street hasn't worked for at least a year, perhaps longer. And, the sprinkler system had not been inspected.
To avoid being ordered to vacate its only station, the department now must assign firefighters - who can perform no other duties - to a 24/7 "fire watch."
Boston firefighters this morning rescued a Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority worker who had fallen into a narrow shaft inside the concrete structures that support the Charles Street/MGH Red Line Station in Boston.
“He kept saying, ‘I want out of here,’ ‘’ said one of the Boston firefighters from the department’s technical rescue team who helped the injured man from the bottom of the concrete shaft some 30 feet below the tracks.
A suspicious fire tore through a Brooklyn brownstone yesterday -- killing a father and two of his young daughters -- and sent at least one person jumping from a window to escape the flames.
The blaze broke out shortly before 5:30 p.m. on a stairwell between the second and third floors of the home on Putnam Avenue in Bushwick, and engulfed the rest of the structure.
A law-enforcement source said the fire was sparked by a child playing with matches.
Firefighters searching the top floor found the bodies of a 62-year-old man and his 14-year-old daughter.
His 3-year-old daughter was still alive, but later died at Woodhull Hospital.
American Airlines spokesman Ed Martelle said the airline doesn’t yet know how long it will take for the flight schedule to return to normal.Gov. Christie endorsed a proposal to regionalize Camden County police and fire services Wednesday, assuring local officials at a closed-door meeting that he would help in what would likely be a trying process to dissolve existing departments.
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Regionalization studies are under way around the state, but Camden County is pushing for a transition that could bring the beginnings of a countywide force in four to six weeks, Freeholder Director Louis Cappelli Jr. said.
A major fuel fire broke out at Miami International Airport late Wednesday night, with fire crews summoned from around the area to fight the flames.
The fire, on the east side of the airport, was graded a second alarm blaze, with smoke and flames visible from nearby roads.
Miami-Dade Fire Rescue spokesman Capt. Eric Baum says the fire was reported around 11 p.m. Wednesday and was brought under control around 1 a.m. Thursday. He says there were no injuries and investigators are now working to determine the fire's cause.
A fire broke out overnight at Preferred Filter Recycling in Detroit.
The call went out early Saturday morning. Firefighters said they heard several explosions coming from the building. Fire crews had their hands full as heavy flames and smoke could be seen for miles.
The business recycles and processes metals. Firefighters have not been able to go inside the building because of concerns of exactly what chemicals are inside.
Two firefighters were injured after a house fire causes an explosion Friday afternoon around 2:30 p.m. in Tempe.
According to a fire official. as firefighters were in front of the house getting their gear on a large explosion occurred on the east side of the home located near Baseline Road and Mill Avenue.
One firefighter suffered serious burns to his head, ear and hand and was rushed to a hospital burn unit.
A second firefighter suffered some kind of knee injury when the explosion occurred and was taken to the hospital.
The Ontario Fire Marshal is investigating a fire at a dollar store in Listowel, in southwestern Ontario, that claimed the lives of two volunteer firefighters.
The blaze broke out around 3:30 p.m. at the Dollar Stop in the town's centre. Listowel Volunteer Fire Department members Raymond Walter, 30, and Kenneth Rea, 56, were killed when they entered the fire-engulfed store to search for any shoppers left inside.
One firefighter suffered a minor injury while fighting an recreational vehicle fire near the intersection of Eubank Boulevard and Constitution Avenue.The first-alarm fire sparked around 6:45 a.m.
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All four occupants were safety evacuated by the Albuquerque Fire Department with no injuries. Fire crews extinguished the fire within six minutes and prevented the blaze from spreading to a nearby home and a small apartment.
One firefighter was dragged to safety by two others early Wednesday morning after he fell through the floor of a burning townhouse.
Ferguson Fire Chief Steven Rosenthal said the injured firefighter was taken by ambulance to a local hospital, where he is being treated for smoke inhalation. A second firefighter was treated for a back injury.
Newport firefighters from all three stations spent the early morning hours battling a two-alarm fire at 21 Calvert St...
The first-floor male tenant was transported to Newport Hospital with second-degree burns to his hands, arms and face. He also suffered from smoke inhalation. A Newport firefighter was also transported to Newport Hospital complaining of chest pains.
A St. Cloud firefighter is being treated for breathing difficulties and overexertion after battling an early morning house fire.
With 72 of their firefighters deployed to Japan as part of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) search and rescue team, Fairfax County Fire and Rescue has not had to cut back on service.
Monday, fire and rescue spokesman Dan Schmidt said the agency has the vacated shifts being filled by the remaining firefighters. The county is operating with a minimum number of firefighters on some apparatus.
After nine months of stalemate in labor negotiations, the city will lay off 30 firefighters, the office of Mayor Francis Slay said late Monday, one of the few Fire Department layoffs in city history.
In addition, said chief of staff Jeff Rainford, the city will cut 24 more positions through attrition, bringing the cuts to nearly 10 percent of the department's 600 firefighters.
Fire Chief Dennis Jenkerson vowed the layoffs would not impact public safety. "It's going to put a strain on us," he said. "It's my job to get through it."
Firefighters said they had heard the rumors but were surprised to hear the decision. Chris Molitor, president of the International Association of Fire Fighters, Local 73, said the news would be tough to take.
A bus accident along the New Jersey Turnpike near East Brunswick killed two people and injured 42 others Monday night, state police said.
The 50-year-old bus driver was killed when he was ejected through the front window, according to Sgt. Stephen Jones. A second person died at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in Brunswick. Five others are in the hospital's trauma unit.
Three firefighters were taken Monday morning to University Hospital with non-life threatening injuries they sustained while battling a house fire in the 600 block of Camp Street.
One suffered “serious” injuries when he was trapped after the structure collapsed, said Capt. Sal Melendez, spokesman for Louisville Fire & Rescue.
A second firefighter suffered neck injuries from falling debris and a third received face and neck burns, Melendez said.
A raging four-alarm fire tore through an Elizabeth, New Jersey apartment building early Monday morning, briefly trapping people until firefighters rescued them.
One resident suffered burns on his legs and a firefighter was burned on his back and shoulder in the blaze that erupted around 4 a.m. on Garden Street near the corner of Grier Avenue
A Lincoln firefighter was shocked while fighting a blaze at a duplex.
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Fire officials say a firefighter struck electrical cords with a tool while attempting to bring down a ceiling tile.
Accounts of the fatal bus crash in New York have changed since the news of the tragedy was originally released on Saturday morning."A crowded bus cruising back to Chinatown from Connecticut's Mohegan Sun casino early yesterday was split in half in a horrifying accident on I-95 in The Bronx..."
Further coverage of the story indicates that authorities now question the driver’s account of the incident:
"World Wide Tours driver Ophadell Williams claimed that a tractor-trailer clipped the bus while changing lanes at about 5:30 a.m. and fled the scene. But police sources, saying there was no damage evidence on the bus of any collision, were questioning Williams' account."
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Read the complete story here."The 74-member team -– along with about 74 tons of equipment, including swift-water rescue gear and six search dogs –- is expected to arrive in Japan early Sunday, said fire Capt. Ed Lozano."
SAN ANTONIO — San Antonio's fire chief has suspended three firefighters for traveling too fast and not buckling up while racing to a fire.
The firefighters were involved in a wreck last year that injured one of the four men on a ladder truck and destroyed the $600,000 vehicle.
A large early-morning fire destroyed three Surf Avenue structures today, including one that appeared to be a vacant hotel, an eyewitness said. No injuries have been reported.
The fire broke out around 5:15 a.m., and by 7:45 a.m. appeared to be largely under control with no more visible flames. The three dozen firefighters on scene were wetting down one of the houses and picking into it from the roof while steam smoldered off it.
A jury in St. Louis awarded Angela Martin and her children $27 million in a judgment against the company that manufactured her husband's defective fire safety equipment...
The Lower Merion Township Fire Department plans to ask the Board of Commissioners to adopt a new 20-year $15.8-million fire apparatus replacement policy for its six volunteer companies in the coming April cycle. The previous equipment replacement policy expired in late 2010.
The policy, outlined by township Fire Chief Charles McGarvey at the board's March 2 meeting, establishes a time-line for the purchase of three new pieces of equipment for each of the township's six companies by 2030. The final cost, adjusted for five percent annual inflation, would be paid for with monies from the township's Capital Projects Fund created through the sale of general obligation bonds.
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McGarvey added that new equipment doesn't only maximize the ability of the volunteer force to do their job, but helps recruitment and retention for the individual companies. The scarcity of firemen is a problem in municipalities across the state.
A veteran Southfield firefighter continued to battle a blaze despite falling into the basement of Lathrup Village home Thursday morning.
FOX 2's Al Allen reports that Curtis Nelson walked into the home on the 18500 block of Glenwood and fell nearly 10 feet from the first floor and into the basement. Nelson, didn't sustain any major injuries and continued to battle the blaze before being pulled up.
A fire engine involved in a fatal collision with a van ran a red light, violating state law while on an emergency run, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.
The accident happened at around noon Wednesday at the intersection of Richmond Road and Burgher Avenue in Dongan Hills.
The FDNY truck from Ladder 81 was heading to a car fire on the Staten Island Expressway, with its siren on moments before the crash.
The van then made a left from Burgher onto Richmond, witness Ali Alsaede said. The fire truck then crashed into the van’s rear driver door.
