Firefighters

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• Two FF’s Killed in Blast at Russian Military Base

  
  Firegeezer.com — Authority: 489
  AN EXPLOSION AND SUBSEQUENT FIRE AT A MILITARY DEPOT in Ulyanovsk, Russia, Friday has caused significant damage while killing two [...]
  4 hours ago

• Explosions rock arms depot in Russia

  
  CKA Canadian News — Authority: 507
  MOSCOW - Huge explosions and flames ripped through a Russian military arsenal for hours, killing two firefighters and sending personnel fleeing to a bomb shelter to wait out the worst of the firestorm, officials said.
  17 hours ago

• Total admits Buncefield fire failings

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 983
  Four years after largest explosion in peacetime Europe, company pleads guilty to health and safety breaches Oil company Total UK has admitted health and safety breaches in connection with the explosion at the Buncefield oil depot that left more than 40 people injured and damaged hundreds of homes and businesses. The ...
  1 day ago

• The arson trial, the guilty verdict, the execution, and the Texas Governor

  
  Sleepless in Midland — Authority: 127
  Texas Governor Rick Perry replaced the head and some members of the Texas Forensic Science Commission (TFSC) in September, and some are crying foul -- CNN, for example . Before the shake up, the TFSC had hired a consultant to investigate and report on the case against Cameron Todd Willingham who had been convicted ...
  2 days ago

• Philadelphia Firefighter Falls From Apparatus

  
  Firefighter Hourly — Authority: 137
  One of Philadelphias bravest is at the University of Pennsylvania Hospital tonight after he fell from the fire apparatus. The exact nature of his fall is unknown at this time but around 1831 medics were requested to respond to the scene where the fall took place. EMS and firefighters packaged the injured firefighter ...
  2 days ago

• At the fire station

  
  Urban Sketchers — Authority: 564
  My colleague Manolo  poses for me,  while we wait for something to happen ...
  3 days ago

• Sanger California Firefighters Fulfill Dying Boys Wish

  
  California Fire News - Structure, Wildland, EMS — Authority: 420
  The call came over the radio: A brush fire was just down the road. Inside Engine 120, a Sanger firefighter turned on the siren and honked the horn. Within a few seconds, the truck had arrived at the blaze. Out stepped the stations newest -- and smallest -- firefighter: 3-year-old Sebastien Daniel. With his hands ...
  3 days ago

• Deadline Near for CCAC Scholarships for Firefighters

  
  WDUQNews — Authority: 487
  Allegheny County and the Community College of Allegheny County (CCAC) partnered up in the spring of this year to develop the FireVEST program. The program provides full scholarships to residents of Allegheny County in exchange for an agreement to be a volunteer firefighter for the next five years. Executive Director ...
  3 days ago

• Fire fighting

  
  Blogging Bayport Alameda — Authority: 126
  There were a few tidbits of information revealed at last week’s City Council meeting that has not really been highlighted as it stands in the shadows of the Alameda Point Revitalization Initiative date that was set.    During the meeting as justification for not voting for the February date, Councilmember Lena Tam ...
  3 days ago

• Alameda Firefighters Decry February 2, 2010 Vote on Alameda Point Initiative

  
  ACTION ALAMEDA News — Authority: 134
  In a press release yesterday, the Alameda Firefighters Association decried the decision last week by City Council to schedule the vote on SunCal’s Alameda Point Development Initiative for February 2, 2010, after having earlier this year delayed a firefighters minimum staffing initiative until November 2011. On ...
  3 days ago

• Fort Hood Fallen: Victims, Not Heroes

  
  Outside The Beltway | OTB — Authority: 657
  President Obama’s speech at yesterday’s memorial service for the victims of the Fort Hood massacre was touching and struck the right chords. Marc Ambinder and Taegan Goddard both say it was his best speech, ever, and Chuck Todd gushes that it will be “remembered and quoted from for quite some time.” ...
  3 days ago

• Young Veterans Form New Groups, and Old Posts Fade Away

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 911
  Prisco De Angelis, 77, a Korean War veteran, occasionally holds meetings of Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 2652 at his home in Brooklyn. Membership is down to five or so.
  3 days ago

• Melbourne Firefighters Donate Fire Truck to Samoa; Australians Donate Earthmoving Gear & Building Supplies

  
  pacificEyeWitness.org — Authority: 441
  The AusAID relief package delivered by Tobruk also contains heavy earthmoving equipment and construction supplies to assist with the rebuilding operation, humanitarian aid and other items donated by non-government organisations in Australia. It also includes a large consignment of donated goods from the Australian ...
  3 days ago

• Firefighters find nothing roasted – but the coffee

  
  NewsWire.co.nz — Authority: 132
  By Daniel Simmons Ritchie & Lee Stace A POT of burnt coffee left 150 businessmen and women standing in the rain along Dixon St in the Wellington CBD around noon today.  Four fire engines were called to Crombie Lockwood House and firefighters spent 15 minutes sweeping the eighth floor looking for a potential ...
  4 days ago

• Review of a Classic Fire Book: Johnny the Fireman

  
  Stop, Drop and Blog — Authority: 423
  We’ve been finding great fire books over the past few weeks, both at the library and ones that we have purchased. However, we also came to own a classic children’s fire book thanks to FireDad’s Grandma, also fondly known by TheBrothers as Mamaw. The book, when researched on the Internet, is referred to as ...
  4 days ago

• Three Firefighters Injured In Large Fire

  
  Firefighter Hourly — Authority: 137
  MowTown Power Equipment employees made it out of the building just as flames took over the large structure last night. Firefighters from over a dozen towns rolled into Hooksett, New Hampshire to help control the fast moving blaze. On arrival first due companies found heavy fire venting through the roof. Multiple ...
  4 days ago

• After Fatal Fire, Many in Queens Denounce Illegal Apartments

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 911
  After three died on Saturday in illegal apartments, building inspectors found eight more illegal units next door in Woodside.
  4 days ago

• Sharon McDonough’s Home Was An Animal ‘Concentration Camp’: Son

  
  heave-ho.org — Authority: 459
  SELDEN, N.Y. — Authorities are investigating whether any of the more than 20 animal carcasses found in the backyard of a Long Island home are the remains of animals reported missing by pet owners in the area. Dozens of concerned pet owners have contacted authorities following the gruesome discovery, a scene ...
  4 days ago

• Charles P. Sifton, Judge in City Case on Term Limits, Dies at 74

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 911
  Charles P. Sifton in 1977.
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• Workers’ Fightback: Union tops sabotage posties and firefighters/Austria university occupations

  
  Anarchoblogs — Authority: 155
  The postal strike was sabotaged by the leadership of the Communication Workers Union last Thursday, when chief negotiators called off two scheduled days of all out action following eleventh hour talks, and left their dues payers in dark about the sell-out being prepared in their name.The inevitable betrayal came at ...
  5 days ago

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