Firefighters

A firefighter in the Agua Dulce area of Los Angeles shot two of his colleagues, killing one and critically injuring the other, then went home to burn down his residence while barricaded inside.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Twenty firefighters from California returned to the United States on Wednesday after spending nearly a month battling wildfires in Australia. The firefighters based at Angeles National Forest arrived at Los Angeles International Airport and were scheduled to reunite with their families at a city fire station. The group had worked with […]

On Wednesday, D.C. firefighters got to meet the baby they helped deliver in the shadow of the Washington Monument on January 18. Akela Crawford and the baby’s father Ron Payton were headed to the hospital, when finally she told her doctor on the phone, “I don’t think we’re gonna make it.” The couple pulled over, […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The largest firefighters union is preparing to formally endorse Joe Biden’s expected presidential run this week, with group leaders saying they will be “investing” heavily in the former vice president’s anticipated bid. The board of the International Association of Fire Fighters will meet this week to vote on the endorsement. They plan […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Is there anything firefighters could have done to control the blaze that tore through Paris‘ historic Notre Dame Cathedral sooner? Experts say the combination of a structure that’s more than 850 years old, built with heavy timber construction and soaring open spaces, and lacking sophisticated fire-protection systems led to the quick […]

An Oakland Hills resident called the police to report an African-American firefighter doing a city-mandated inspection.

A man got his “man parts” stuck in a weight plate. We don’t know who has it worse, the firefighters who had to get him out of that or the man that had to let a bunch of men near his parts! Don’t Miss Out! Follow The Russ Parr Show on Twitter and Instagram Keep Up With The […]

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Sixteen state firefighters were placed on paid administrative leave for unrelated policy violations that grew out of an investigation into allegations of firefighters having sex on fire trucks, officials said. The investigation began in May after Orville Fleming, fire academy instructor and battalion chief for the California Department of Forestry and […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Two window washers were trapped on a dangling scaffold nearly 70 stories up the new 1 World Trade Center tower for nearly two hours on Wednesday before firefighters sawed through a thick double-layered window to reach them. The dramatic rescue, coming a little more than a week after the nation’s tallest […]

BOSTON (AP) — Boston residents mourned the deaths of two firefighters who were killed when a fire driven by strong winds whipped through a brownstone and trapped them in the basement in a neighborhood just blocks from where nine city firefighters died in a 1972 hotel collapse. Tributes poured in for Lt. Edward J. Walsh, […]

The men and women who serve on the front lines as firefighters, rescuing citizens in harm’s way, should be saluted daily for their bravery. In one of…