| Suffolk Fire & Rescue Frees Pinned Driver from Single Vehicle Accident
2/13/2012 4:45:26 PM The Suffolk Police Department and Suffolk Fire & Rescue responded to an early morning accident on Rt. 58 eastbound in the area of the Virginia Department of Transportation Weigh Station scales on February 10th, 2012. |
| Unattended Food Causes Ventura Apartment Fire
2/13/2012 4:43:23 PM Ventura City Firefighters responded to an early morning fire alarm, arrived to find an apartment filled with smoke on February 11th, 2012. |
| Fontana Fire Destroys Motor Home and Takes a Life
2/9/2012 6:46:25 AM Neighbors reported a motor home on fire with several explosions and possible victims trapped inside on February 7th, 2012. |
| CAL FIRE Highlights Burn Awareness Week
2/9/2012 6:41:49 AM Across California thousands of people are burned every year in fires and countless lives are lost, including young children. During the week of February 5 – 11, 2012, CAL FIRE is teaming up with fire departments across the country to highlight the fire risks and burn injury prevention during the winter months for National Burn Awareness Week. |
| Arrest Made in Two Bomb Threats to a Chesapeake Restaurant
2/9/2012 6:38:36 AM On the evening of February 7th, 2012, Investigators for the Chesapeake Fire Marshal’s Office arrested Michael Zion Erickson, a 35 year old male from Chesapeake, on two counts of threatening to bomb a building. |
| LAFD Attends Extreme Aircrew Training at 'Graveyard of the Pacific'
2/9/2012 6:34:56 AM During January 2012, the Los Angeles Fire Department was invited to participate in a first of its kind joint-agency training at the U.S. Coast Guard's Advanced Helicopter Rescue School. It was an extreme honor for LAFD personnel to learn from the world's finest...
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| Wisconsin Blaze Caused by Unsafe Use of Cutting Torch
2/9/2012 6:32:44 AM Fire investigators announced that the fire at 4914 Pflaum Road started when gasoline vapors were ignited by a cutting torch. |
| Fire Damages Auto Detail Shop in Wisconsin
2/9/2012 6:30:36 AM Fire caused $250,000 damage to an auto detail shop located in a multi-tenant commercial building on Pflaum Road on the morning of February 7th, 2012. |
 | Erin A. Janssens Selected as Portland's Next Fire Chief
2/9/2012 6:26:08 AM Commissioner Randy Leonard announced the selection of Erin Janssens as Portland’s next Fire Chief on February 8th, 2012. |
| NFPA Board of Directors Appoints New Members to Standards Council
2/9/2012 6:23:23 AM The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) Board of Directors has appointed three new members to serve three-year terms with effective dates in January 2012: Donald P. Bliss of Hampton, New Hampshire, Randall K. Bradley of Manteca, California, and John A. Rickard of Austin, Texas to the Association’s Standards Council. |