Firefighter’s Practiced Maneuver, Five Stories Up, Ends in Fatal Fall By ANDY NEWMANAPRIL 21, 2017 William Tolley, a New York City firefighter, died on Thursday after falling from a tower ladder. CreditUli Seit for The New York Times It was a routine operation at a routine apartment-building fire using a piece of equipment that was tailor […]
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Rusty fire escapes could get upgrade in Iowa town
Rusty fire escapes could get upgrade in one eastern Iowa town By Katie Wiedemann, KCRG-TV9 | Posted: Tue 6:59 PM, Apr 18, 2017 | Updated: Tue 7:31 PM, Apr 18, 2017 DUBUQUE, Iowa (KCRG-TV9) — Property owners in Dubuque can get some financial help upgrading aging fire escapes. The city council approved that funding Monday […]
Read more...Residents unite to take on mega-landlord
Jersey City Together held a landlord protest against River Edge / Trendy Management on Sunday, March 26, 2017. The protest met at St Paul’s Episcopal Church and protesters walked over to 205 Monticllo Ave. in Jersey City. Pictured: Rev. Jessica Lambert of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church. (Michael Dempsey | The Jersey Journal) Michael Dempsey | […]
Read more...2 People Escape
2 People Escape As Fire Tears Through Seekonk Home March 28, 2017 12:58 PMFiled Under: Fire, Mike LaCrosse, Seekonk SEEKONK (CBS) — Firefighters rushed to rescue the people and pets inside a multi-family home as a blaze ripped through it Tuesday morning. The fire began around 9:40 a.m. in a three-story home on Hull Street. Several people […]
Read more...1 feared dead after fire rips through California building
Updated: 11:59 AM EDT Mar 27, 2017 Firefighters rescued at least seven people after a blaze erupted on the top floor of a three-story residential building in West Oakland, California sending towering flames and heavy smoke into the dawn sky. Advertisement Fire officials said at least one person was feared dead inside the building that […]
Read more...Three Alarm Fire Rages on Elmora Avenue
By FRAN SULLIVAN March 26, 2017 at 3:12 PM Three-alarm fire on Elmora AvenueCredits: Kathy Lloyd ELIZABETH, NJ – A fire in a six-story multiple dwelling on the 300 block of Elmora Avenue quickly progressed from a two-alarm to a three-alarm fire with one firefighter injured. At one point, fire was visible and found in […]
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Residents rescued from 2-alarm fire at housing complex Caitlin Mota | The Jersey Journal PrintEmail By Caitlin Mota | The Jersey Journal on March 22, 2017 at 7:54 AM, updated March 22, 2017 at 7:55 AM A two alarm fire ripped through an apartment building at the Marion Gardens Housing Complex on Tuesday, March 21, 2017. (Caitlin […]
Read more...Operational Safety on Fire Escapes
AUGUST 9, 2016 |Operational Safety on Fire Escapes Lessons from the Fireground: Fire Fighter Dies from Fall off Fire Escape Ladder – Illinois Make some time today to read the Lessons from the Fireground from NIOSH Report F2010-25 related to operations from fire escapes. Get your company out into the streets today or this evening and […]
Read more...Former NYU student who fell from fire escape wins $29M suit
Former NYU student who fell from fire escape wins $29M suit By Julia Marsh March 8, 2017 | 5:24pm Modal Trigger A former NYU student was was paralyzed from the waist down after falling from a fire escape. A former New York University athlete won a $29 million verdict in Manhattan court Tuesday – one that cannot be appealed […]
Read more...2 Children Dead, 4 Hurt In Chicago South Side Fire
CHICAGO (CBS) — Two girls were found dead and four others were injured in a house fire Saturday night in the Woodlawn neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side. CBS 2’s Lauren Victory Reports. There is still no official cause for the fire that killed seven-month-old Ziya Grace and two-year-old Jamaii Grace. Both children were found dead in […]
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