Maryland -
On April 15, 2009, a 41-year-old male volunteer fire chief (the victim) was fatally injured when the vehicle he was driving skidded off the highway an...
March 11, 2010 | Topix - NIOSH | Written By NIOSH
Colorado -
On February 23, 2008, a 33-year-old male volunteer captain (the victim) was fatally injured when the engine he was driving to a medical emergency left...
March 11, 2010 | Topix - NIOSH | Written By NIOSH
Georgia -
On December 31, 2008, a 24-year-old male career fire fighter (the victim) was fatally injured and another fire fighter (officer) was seriously injured...
December 2, 2009 | Topix - NIOSH | Written By CDC
Massachusetts - Suffolk prosecutors and Boston Fire Department brass yesterday strongly refuted findings in a federal report, saying they never blocked requests from...
November 13, 2009 | Topix - NIOSH | Written By Boston Herald
Massachusetts - A report released Monday by the federal National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health on the 2007 Tai Ho Restaurant fire that killed two jakes...
November 11, 2009 | Topix - NIOSH | Written By Boston Herald
Ohio -
On April 04, 2008, a 37-year-old female career captain and a 29-year-old male part-time fire fighter were fatally injured when a section of floor coll...
September 2, 2009 | Topix - NIOSH | Written By NIOSH
Texas -
On January 25, 2009, two male career fire fighters, age 28 (Victim 1) and age 45 (Victim 2), died after falling from an elevated aerial platform durin...
July 22, 2009 | Topix - NIOSH | Written By NIOSH
Texas - Several factors led to the deaths of two Kilgore fire fighters killed in a training accident earlier this year, according to a report by a federal gov...
July 18, 2009 | Topix - NIOSH | Written By Kilgore News Herald
Pennsylvania - A federal report on the 2008 accident that killed fire Capt. James Robeson says the Scranton Fire Department's lack of standard operating guidelines f...
March 18, 2009 | Topix - NIOSH | Written By The Times-Tribune
Pennsylvania -
NIOSH recommends that all fire departments utilizing aerial ladder trucks with locking (pin-anchored, lever actuated, cl...
May 9, 2008 | Topix - NIOSH | Written By NIOSH
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