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CRITICAL From IAFF & UL: Fire Response to Residential Battery Energy Storage System Runs
As the installation of residential energy storage systems (ESS) increases, the frequency of fire incidents involving these products will increase. To date, at least 60 residential ESS fire events hav...
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Houston Fire Department Announces Free Medical Physicals & Cancer Screenings to HFD Firefighters
HOUSTON - The Houston Fire Department (HFD) began offering National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) 1582 compliant health and cancer screenings in October 2023 free of charge, to all uniformed mem...
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N.H. FIREFIGHTER DIES FOLLOWING SHIFT
We regret to pass on that Lt. Charles "Chuck" Gallant, a 20-year-veteran of Rye Fire Rescue in New Hampshire (near Portsmouth) died yesterday following an overtime shift. Lt. Gallant was pr...
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FLA. FIREFIGHTER SERIOUSLY BURNED
A Marion County Fire Captain was injured while fighting a structure fire on Wednesday (yesterday) afternoon. Companies responded to Southeast 20th Place in Silver Springs for a fire in a mobile home...
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Captain Adam Wayne Hart - Hurlburt Field, Fire & Emergency Services - LODD
Captain Adam Wayne Hart Hurlburt Field, Fire & Emergency Services Hurlburt Field, FL On Thursday, Oct. 5, 2023, during his 48-hour shift, Captain Adam Wayne Hart was found unresponsive on the flo...
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Firefighter Regina Huffman - Coon Creek Fire & Rescue - LODD
Firefighter Regina Huffman Coon Creek Fire & Rescue Wooten, Kentucky On Saturday, Oct. 28, 2023, firefighters responded to an ATV accident with two people seriously injured. Helicopters were summ...
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LIEUTENANT DILLON J. RINALDO - BALTIMORE CITY FIRE DEPARTMENT - LODD
Lieutenant Dillon J. Rinaldo Baltimore City Fire Department Baltimore, Maryland On Thursday, Oct. 19, 2023, Baltimore City Fire Department firefighters responded to a fire that broke out in a block ...
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Baltimore Fire Lieutenant Dillon Rinaldo
The funeral for fallen Baltimore Fire Lieutenant Dillon Rinaldo will be Friday morning, the Baltimore Firefighters Union announced today. Lieutenant Rinaldo was critically injured in that row home fi...
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FIREFIGHTER KILLED RETURNING FROM FD EVENT
A regionally well-known and very popular volunteer Firefighter Paramedic who was walking to his house after a Halloween event at the firehouse was struck and killed by a vehicle in Salem (north of Ne...
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Lieutenant Dillon J. Rinaldo - Baltimore City Fire Department - LODD
A second firefighter who fought a blaze inside a group of rowhouses in northwest Baltimore died Wednesday, according to Kevin Cartwright, a spokesman for the Baltimore City Fire Department. Cartwrigh...
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