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•April 19, 2024

MAN SHOOTS WIFE, CHASES DOWN AMBULANCE IN FLORIDA

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (WFLA) — A man was charged...
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•April 19, 2024

MUST WATCH!!! FDIC BOSS DAVID RHODES, FDNY LT. MIKE CIAMPO SHARE THEIR STORIES ABOUT CANCER

David Rhodes and Mike Ciampo recount their encounters with...
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•April 19, 2024

FIREFIGHTER HISTORY 4/19

On 4/19/1995 The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in...
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•April 18, 2024

LADDER TRUCK CATCHES FIRE INSIDE FIREHOUSE – NORTH CAROLINA

CONCORD, N.C. (WBTV) – A firetruck was damaged Thursday...
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•April 18, 2024

CANCER SCREENING PARTNERSHIP LEADS TO LIFE-SAVING DIAGNOSIS – NEW YORK

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) — As Captain Mark Egloff approaches...
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•April 18, 2024

AMBULANCE STOLEN WITH PERSONNEL ON BOARD, CRASHED – GEORGIA

ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) – A hospital patient...
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The Secret List

•April 15, 2024

FIREFIGHTER RECRUIT STRUCK/KILLED ON HIGHWAY (The Secret List)

All, A Los Angeles City recruit Firefighter, who was just sworn in last week, was...
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•April 14, 2024

FF SERIOUSLY BURNED: ATTEMPTED RESCUE, FF ATTACKED, ROOKIE DEATH, FDNY VIDEO, PTSD911 (The Secret List)

All, A Milwaukee firefighter suffered severe burns and is in the hospital after he was...
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•April 14, 2024

FDIC: THE Week (The Secret List)

All, Firstly, if you are traveling to FDIC from the east, literally just a few...
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•April 14, 2024

NE POLICE OFFICER STRUCK/KILLED-WAS ALSO A FIREFIGHTER (The Secret List)

All, We regret to pass on that Ceresco (SW of Omaha) Police Officer Ross Bartlett...
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•April 13, 2024

FL FIREFIGHTER, 44, LODD-In Quarters

All, We regret to pass on that a. Jacksonville Fire Rescue Department Engineer died in the...
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•April 11, 2024

“Occupant Trapped!” A Fallen NJ Firefighter And The Scholarship

All, April 11, 2006: a single-family dwelling fire with confirmed indications of a victim trapped....
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EMS Close Calls

•April 19, 2024

MAN SHOOTS WIFE, CHASES DOWN AMBULANCE IN FLORIDA

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (WFLA) — A man was charged with first-degree murder after police said...
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•April 18, 2024

AMBULANCE STOLEN WITH PERSONNEL ON BOARD, CRASHED – GEORGIA

ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) – A hospital patient in Henry County stole an ambulance...
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•April 17, 2024

AMBULANCE STOLEN WHILE ON CALL, LEADS POLICE ON CHASE BEFORE CRASHING – NEVADA

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A Las Vegas Fire and Rescue vehicle that had been stolen was...
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•April 17, 2024

AMBULANCE INVOLVED IN CRASH WITH SEMI-TANKER – TEXAS

WEBB COUNTY, TX (KGNS) – Two paramedics are injured following a car crash just north...
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•April 15, 2024

MICHIGAN AMBULANCE STRUCK BY PICKUP

ROME TWP. — An Addison Fire Department ambulance transporting a patient Saturday was struck by...
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•April 14, 2024

Police Respond to Brawl Between EMS Officials at Kerhonkson-Accord EMS First Aid Squad

A fight reportedly between officers of the Kerhonkson-Accord First Aid Squad on Sunday drew a...
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Firefighter History

•April 19, 2024

FIREFIGHTER HISTORY 4/19

On 4/19/1995 The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma bombing killed 168...
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•April 18, 2024

FIREFIGHTER HISTORY 4/18

On 4/18/1906 near San Francisco, California a magnitude (Mw) 7.8 earthquake occurred when the San...
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•April 18, 2024

FIREFIGHTER HISTORY 4/17

On 4/17/2013 a West, Texas one-story, 12,000 square-foot unprotected wood-frame fertilizer plant (storage and distribution)...
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•April 18, 2024

FIREFIGHTER HISTORY 4/16

On 4/16/1947 the Texas City, Texas disaster killed 581 people including twenty-seven firefighters, and 3,500...
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•April 18, 2024

FIREFIGHTER HISTORY 4/15

On 4/15/2013 during the Boston (Massachusetts) Marathon, two pressure-cooker bombs exploded at 2:49 p.m. killing...
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•April 14, 2024

FIREFIGHTER HISTORY 4/14

On 4/14/1857 “A fire, starting in a row of five-story brick warehouses, in Baltimore, Maryland,...
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