Industrial fires demand a different approach to tactics and equipment
Equipping for the industrial incident
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Broken system fails broken firefighters
You'd have to be a complete unfeeling clod not to be emotionally moved by stories of the generous outpouring of financial support for injured firefighters. It restores your belief that humans are basically good when you see strangers give money to help a firefighter, to say nothing of the tremendous relief it is to the firefighter and his or her family. This plays out often. It seems that each time ...
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Discovery Channel to air 9/11 special
By Melissa Hayer The Oklahoman OKLAHOMA CITY — "9/11 Firehouse," a one-hour special centering on the heroic New York "Ten House" firefighters of Sept. 11, 2001, airs at 8 p.m. (EST) Wednesday, Sept. 11, on Discovery Channel. The special is narrated by NBC's Willie Geist. Details on the program, provided by Discovery Channel, are as follows: 9/11 FIREHOUSE documents the ...
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9/11 responders far from NYC seek compensation
By David B. Caruso The Associated Press NEW YORK — They weren't exposed to anywhere near the same level of ash, grit and fumes, but emergency workers who rushed to the Pentagon and the Pennsylvania countryside on 9/11 are signing up for the same compensation and health benefits being given to New Yorkers who got sick after toiling for months in the toxic ruins of the World Trade Center. Federal ...
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Blaze at Okla. chemical plant triggers explosions
The Associated Press THOMAS, Okla. — Firefighters are battling a fire and officials are ordering nearby areas evacuated after a fire and explosions rocked a manufacturing site northwest of Oklahoma City. Oklahoma City television station News 9 reports early Thursday that police confirm explosions hit a Danlin facility near the town of Thomas. The television station says a Thomas Fire Department ...
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Man blows off both hands in Boston explosion
Officials believe the man may have been making fireworks inside his apartment
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12 things to have in your apparatus glove box
Like ER doctors and nurses, fire officers cannot remember everything, so here's a list resources to have in your first-due rigs.
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Firefighter's eyes burned at Va. steel plant fire
WTVR.com PETERSBURG, Va. — Fire crews from Petersburg, Colonial Heights, and Prince George all responded to a large structure fire in Petersburg shortly before 8:30 p.m. A call came in at 8:13 p.m. for a fire at the Industrial Galvanizers steel plant, located in the 3500 block of Halifax Road. Crews arrived on scene around 8:20 p.m. Fire officials confirm the fire started at the back of the building ...
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Texas pipeline explosion prompts evacuations
No one was hurt as a result of the explosion and firefighters intend to let the fire burn itself out.
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1 killed, 1 hurt in Mississippi refinery fire
Responding local fire departments remained on standby in case the company's firefighters could not handle the blaze.
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Hazmat fire at Detroit chemical company prompts evacuation
Homes and a nearby school were evacuated as firefighters did not know what materials in the warehouse were burning.
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Why encapsulating hazmat suits are PPE dinosaurs
Both suit design and testing need a complete overhaul to better match real-world needs.
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Most Ohio derailment evacuees allowed back home
The Associated Press WILLARD, Ohio — Most of the estimated 425 families evacuated after a train derailment and chemical spill were allowed to return home Thursday. About three dozen homes closest to the scene of Tuesday night's derailment remained off-limits and residents could be out of their homes until late Friday, the city said. Gov. John Kasich was briefed in Willard by officials and ...
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Industrial fire at Tenn. Superfund site put out
By Travis Loller The Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A large industrial fire at a federal Superfund site in central Tennessee has been put out and an evacuation order that affected about 300 people has been lifted. Kim Skelton in the Hickman County mayor's office says the blaze that started Wednesday morning was put out late Thursday. On Friday morning emergency officials determined it ...
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Pot oil extraction leads to catastrophic fires
The extraction process uses butane or other flammables to cook 'pipe bombs.'
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All-clear for ND town near oil train derail, explosion
The mile-long train sent a fireball and plumes of black smoke into the sky.
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How to prepare for your own railroad disaster
They don't happen often, but when they do, railroad disasters can quickly overwhelm the best-prepared departments.
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Train carrying oil derails, catches fire in Canada
"The biggest concern is the propane cars...if they happen to explode, we're looking at major damage," fire chief Tim Corbin said
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Diapers in dump truck trigger radioactive alarms
Firefighters found nearly two dozen adult diapers from a hospital that had become contaminated with radioactive iodine
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4 hospitalized in W.Va. after chemical spill
By John Raby The Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A handful of people have been hospitalized and several hundred thousand remain without water after a chemical leaked from a storage tank in Charleston into the public water treatment system, state authorities said Saturday. About 300,000 people in nine counties entered their third day Saturday without being able to drink, bathe in, or wash ...
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