Joshua Haynes Firefighter Linn County Rural Fire District #1 Pleasanton, KS On Monday night, June 20, 2022, Firefighter Joshua Haynes,35, responded to a building fire at Carpenter Chiropractic. While fighting the fire, he experienced a medical emergency and collapsed at the scene. He was airlifted to the University of Kansas Medical Center where he passed […]
Philadelphia PA June 18 2022 A Philadelphia firefighter was killed and five others injured in an early-morning building collapse that has devastated the Fire Department and left a neighborhood shaken. A city building inspector was also injured in the collapse in the city’s Fairhill section, which followed a fire at a popular pizza shop. The firefighter […]
New York June 12 2022 Police officers and firefighters are more likely to die by suicide than in the line of duty, a troubling trend that researchers say didn’t improve in 2020 despite national suicide rates decreasing. A new study provided exclusively to USA TODAY from the Ruderman Family Foundation, a private philanthropic organization that […]
Greenville MS March 4, 2022 A group of Mississippi firefighters caught fire during their desperate attempt to save a 3-year-old from a burning apartment on March 1, according to the Greenville Fire Department. The boy died in the fire. But the valiant attempt to rescue him at all costs is being hailed as heroic in […]
Festus MO January 31 2022 The Festus Fire Department announced the passing of Fire Chief Kevin Cremer due to complications from COVID-19. Chief Cremer died in ICU on Jan. 24, after a weeks-long battle with the virus. The Festus Fire Department said Cremer was a 29-year veteran of the fire service. He spent 13 years […]
MINERAL POINT WS. January 7 2022 Two firefighters were killed in an early-morning crash on US 151 near Mile Marker 38 near Mineral Point, according to the Iowa County Sheriff’s Office. According to the release from officials, a Mineral Point Fire truck was driving to a scene on US 151 early Thursday morning. The truck […]
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. Nov 23 2021— The pilot killed in a plane crash near Estes Park while battling the Kruger Rock fire has been identified as Marc Thor Olson, according to Colorado Fire Aviation, the company that owned the aircraft. The plane Olson was piloting went down near the south end of Hermit Park […]
DeKalb County GA Sept 5 2021 A Georgia EMT has died after being struck by a vehicle. Early Saturday morning, Logan Wade and his partner were traveling in a non-emergency vehicle and stopped to render aid at a car crash, according to American Medical Response (AMR). The two were providing aid until other emergency officials […]
Niagara County AL Aug 28 2021 A public safety officer and fire company volunteer in western New York died after being run over by an apparatus backing up at a mutual aid fire scene. According to a release by the Niagara County Sheriff’s Office, the incident happened Tuesday evening during a fire in the town […]
Los Angeles CA June 2 2021 A shooter opened fire Tuesday morning at a fire station north of Los Angeles, touching off a rapidly unfolding series of events in the Santa Clarita Valley. One firefighter was killed in the shooting, according to a county supervisor. The shooting happened just before 11 a.m. at Los Angeles […]