FireFightingNews

Italian Train Derailment Death Toll Rises To 21

ROME - The death toll from a train explosion in Tuscany rose to 21 on Friday after a woman and a man died in hospital, Italian officials said. The Civil Protection said about a dozen of the injured remained in serious co...

Fire Near River Destroys Million-Dollar Fresno Home

California - An intense fire scorched the bank of the San Joaquin River in northwest Fresno on Thursday, destroying a million-dollar home and forcing residents of eight other h...

Firefighters Rescue Driver Trapped In Burning Car

New York - A Wyandanch ex-chief's trip home for an early lunch Thursday proved fortuitous for two Deer Park brothers when the car they were in hit a tree, bursting into flame...

Wife Who Shot NY Fire Marshal In Bed Gets 25 Years

New York - A woman who shot her New York City fire marshal husband to death while he slept in their bed has been sentenced to 25 years to life in prison. Forty-year-old high...

Lightning Strike Destroys Mass. Church Steeple

Massachusetts - Lightning has struck a historic eastern Massachusetts church, damaging its roof and destroying its steeple. The Medway Community Church was hit by a lightning bolt...

Mayoral Hopefuls Pounce As Three Firehouses Closed

Massachusetts - The controversial brownout of three Boston firehouses yesterday turned into an election-year firestorm, with one mayoral hopeful accusing Mayor Thomas M. Menino of...

Tulsa Firefighter Injured Thursday

Oklahoma - A firefighter suffered burns to his neck while battling a house fire Thursday morning. The cause of the fire in the 2800 block of East 42nd Place North is under in...

Theft Charge Levied Against Deputy Chief

Maine - The deputy chief of the Island Falls Fire Department has been charged with felony theft after allegedly misappropriating about $10,000 in town funds. Maine State P...

Firefighters To Vote On Plan That Would Save 68 Jobs

California - After months of bitter negotiations, the city of Sacramento and its fire union have agreed to salary concessions that they say will save the jobs of dozens of fire...

Fire Engulfs Gym At Douglas Byrd Middle

North Carolina - Fayetteville firefighters battled a fire Wednesday that engulfed Douglas Byrd Middle School's gymansium, collapsing the roof. Firefighters responded to a 911 call...

Few Survive Cardiac Arrest, Even With Hospital CPR

You don't have to be Michael Jackson to have this problem: The odds of surviving cardiac arrest after getting CPR in a hospital are slim and have not improved in m...

40 Rush To Beat Pension Reform

Massachusetts - A total of 33 Boston jakes and seven cops raced to get in claims for disability pensions before a new state law limiting the lucrative retirements takes effect tod...

Fire Union, Mayor Spar Over Brownouts

Massachusetts - Declaring that lives must come first, the head of the Boston firefighters union pledged yesterday that his members would voluntarily staff fire companies that are...