“It really took a lot out of the firefighters working in the heat conditions, so we had to rotate people in and out of the building,” Somerville Fire Chief Charles Breen said in a phone interview.
Robert Hild, the veteran captain of the Little Rock Fire Department who died Sunday, was killed by injuries sustained after jumping from a moving vehicle, according to an Arkansas State Police incident report.
Firefighters rescued an 80-year-old man and his 15-year-old dog from the smoke-filled home after the blaze broke out in the bedroom of a semi-detached property
A man has appeared in court accused of taking photos of a dead man at the scene of a crash while working as a firefighter and sending those photos to others.
S&P Global Ratings revised the outlook on the city's AA rating to negative from stable, citing increased debt and costs from a settlement with firefighters.
David Matthew Neet, an Alpine volunteer firefighter, was arrested Friday and charged with arson after authorities say he purposefully started a string of recent roadside brush fires in the region.
Fifteen firefighters were injured fighting a large blaze at a fertilizer warehouse in South Hill, Virginia early Saturday morning. The firefighters were hospitalized due to chemical exposure, heat exhaustion and minors scrapes and burns.…