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Glenn Usdin's FireTruckBlog.com reports on California officials who want the EPA to exempt fire apparatus from diesel-powered engine filter requirements.
One department's apparatus have been out of service over 300 times this year alone — blamed on the filters.
Read more at FireTruckBlog.com.
A week after Glenn Usdin's FireTruckBlog.com told the story of the man who couldn't seem to give away his fire truck to the Detroit Fire Department, there's an update.
The department's mechanic and Detroit's fire commissioner inspected Joe Rippolone's 1983, tower ladder. Commissioner Donald Austin has said it is a donation worth accepting.
Click here to see more from the fire commissioner.
Read FireTruckBlog.com's story on Detroit's apparatus problems at house fire
Glenn Usdin's FireTruckBlog.com posted this story last night about a delay in rescuing a three-year-old girl at a house fire in Detroit Tuesday morning. FireTruckBlog.com has the WJBK-TV interview with union president Dan McNamara saying that the first unit on the scene was a TAC unit, a small pumper with a disabled pump. McNamara says TAC units and pickup trucks are being used to replace broken front line equipment because of the lack of reserve units.
WJBK-TV went to Detroit Fire Department Headquarters in search of Commissioner Donald Austin. The word came back that Austin was in a meeting and no one responded to the serious allegations made by the union president. This time it wasn't reporter Charlie LeDuff on the search of the commissioner. No word on where Charlie is either.
Until now, Commissioner Austin has seemed ready, willing and able to handle the tough questions and, from the stories we have seen, he has not been hiding from LeDuff or other reporters. But, with a little girl who is critically injured and some serious charges about the fire department's response to the house fire, you would think Commissioner Austin would want to make sure someone was available to answer questions, even if he couldn't be.
Why is Worcester Fire Department's new truck named "The McKeon Road?"
Find out how one station dedicated the rig and at the same time honored 3 brothers who never came home from war on Glenn Usdin's FireTruckBlog.com.
What's for sale at SellFireTrucks.com? Check out FireTruckBlog.com for the latest — a Ford 1990 Mini-Pumper/Rescue 250/250 and a 1991 International 1250/750 Pumper.
Selling a used fire truck? Click here.
Last week, firefighters attending FDIC in Indianapolis made the climb (Previous STATter911.com coverage of the 9-11 Memorial Stair Climb at FDIC is here). Wednesday, firefighters stepped it up at Hilton Washington to honor the 343 honor firefighters who lost their lives on 9-11. The event was co-hosted by the Congressional Fire Services Institute and the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation.
Among these doing the climb were Prince George's County Fire/.EMS Department Chief Marc Bashoor and a class of PGFD recruits.
Scenes from Wednesday's climb:
Residents in Lyndhurst, Chagrin Falls and Shaker Heights will need to change their ionization type smoke detectors to photoelectric ones.
Shaker Heights (Ohio) Fire Chief Kevin Jacobs told WKYC-TV, "We've found photoelectric smoke detectors tend to respond tens of minutes faster in a smoldering fire which are more common today than the fast burning fires."
The fire department plans to provide new photoelectric smoke detectors to residents who can't afford to make the switch.
Read WKYC's full story here.
A tour bus overturned early Saturday morning on the New England Thruway in the Bronx, killing 13 people. Six others have been transported with critical injuries.
More than 60 firefighters were on the scene. A spokesperson for FDNY told WCBS, “The bus flipped over on its side. The roof of the bus was sheered off by that light pole. This is very bad.”
There were 31 passengers and a driver aboard, headed to New York City from Mohegan Sun, a casino in Connecticut.
Screen grab from WABC‘s video:
More from WABC here. WCBS’ coverage is here. The New York Post report is here.
Evangelyn Code told ABC2 that Lutherville VFC Firefighter Mark Falkenhan rescued her from her third floor apartment during Wednesday night’s fire.
“I was getting ready to jump and he asked me please don’t jump, I’m coming to you with a ladder and he came over with a ladder,” said Code.
She returned to the apartment complex Thursday and told reporter Brian Kuebler:
“He was my hero but I feel bad about what happened, I really do. Knowing he was a volunteer firefighter and leaves his two children, his wife….I feel bad.”
Watch the video above to see Brian’s interview with Evangelyn Code and read the story on ABC2news.com here.
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