1+ week, 3+ day ago   (387+ words) The $55 million donation from Highmark Health and University of Pittsburgh Medical Center will provide the Pittsburgh Bureau of Fire with 13 new fire apparatus. Sep. 3—Pittsburgh is ordering 13 new fire trucks, using funds donated by Highmark Health. Mayor Corey O'Connor on…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (234+ words) Witmer Public Safety Group, Inc., operating under the name TheFireStore, announced the introduction of Stop Battery Fires (StopBatteryFires.us), a new brand and website aimed at assisting businesses and individuals in being ready for the increasing dangers of lithium-ion battery…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (600+ words) Barry Williams and Leonard Greene NEW YORK — She has been dead for many years now, not from anything related to 9/11, because they saved her that day. But to hear the firefighters who pulled Josephine Harris from the World Trade Center…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (261+ words) Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, Calif. A mama bear and her two cubs were rescued late Saturday, Aug. 29, from a large cistern in La Verne, where they had climbed in through a vent hole and became trapped. Los Angeles County and…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (501+ words) Nicholas Williams and Thomas Tracy An 18-year-old boy died as a fire sparked by a lithium-ion battery tore through a Brooklyn apartment, FDNY officials said Saturday. The blaze marked the second fatal fire in the city this year caused by…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (437+ words) A fire at the Kentucky State Fair damaged multiple booths of Lexington vendors on Friday, one vendor says. The fire started around 3:45 a.m. in South Wing C of the Kentucky Exposition Center, according to WDRB. The Louisville news station further reported…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (166+ words) A trial date has been set for the man whom the 9/11 Commission called “the principal architect” of 9/11, according to an ABC News report. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s trial will begin on June 5, 2028, more than a quarter century after his capture on…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (348+ words) CLEVELAND, Ohio - A 19-year-old Lakewood man has been arrested and accused of setting fire to a historic Cleveland church, a blaze that caused hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage. John McManamon was issued a $10,000 bond Wednesday in Cleveland Municipal…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (194+ words) While exercising to be fit for duty is promoted in the fire and EMS service, the effort by Jacksonville firefighters didn't go over well. That's because they decided to drive a ladder truck to a fitness center 20 miles away to…...

3+ week, 18+ hour ago   (167+ words) The Louisiana State Patrol said an Meaux-Nunez firefighter was killed while responding to an emergency call in his personal vehicle Friday. They said he was not wearing a seatbelt. The crash happened in Kaplan, in Vermilion Parish on LA 14 around…...