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ERIE, Pa. (AP) — Officials say a volunteer firefighter was the father of three of five children who died in a blaze at an all-night child care center in Pennsylvania. Lawrence Park Township Volunteer Fire Chief Joe Crotty says Luther Jones’ two daughters and a son were killed in the fire. The children haven’t been […]

Cobb County 911 got an emergency call Friday night from who they believed to be a firefighter, after he fell more than 20 feet out of a tree, reports Action News. When police arrived to help him, they didn’t find a firefighter, they found an impersonator. Cobb County Fire Chief Randy Crider told Channel 2 […]

Cobb County 911 got an emergency call Friday night from who they believed to be a firefighter, after he fell more than 20 feet out of a tree, reports Action News. When police arrived to help him, they didn’t find a firefighter, they found an impersonator. Cobb County Fire Chief Randy Crider told Channel 2 […]

National News

NEW YORK (AP) — A raging fire gutted an unoccupied residential building in Harlem being used as a film set and left a New York City firefighter dead. The blaze broke out on the set of “Motherless Brooklyn,” directed by Edward Norton, at about 11 p.m. Thursday. Flames poured out the windows as firefighters swarmed […]

Little Known Black History Facts

Leslie Outerbridge, a co-founder of the Afro American Firefighter League, now called the African American and Paramedic League, celebrates a birthday today. The retired fireman helped bring about diversity to the Chicago Fire Department and has captured a lot of Black firefighter history in his own writings and research. Outerbridge was born in 1936 and […]

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New York firefighter Jason Stokes pleaded not guilty to arson charges earlier this week after being charged with setting fire to his own home back in August.

Detroit mail carrier Darrian Crutcher (pictured) doesn’t think he’s a hero just because he put out a house fire, that started in a second floor bedroom home…