Baltimore Firefighter Dies While Exercising

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OHIO FIRE CHIEF LODD: It is with deep regret that we advise you that the Chief of the Ohio City FD in Ohio City, Ohio (30 miles to the east of Ft. Wayne, IN) has died in the Line of Duty. Veteran Fire Chief, Paul Swander, age 74, went to the fire station around 1400 hours on Thursday January 31 to fuel the station generator due to an impending winter storm. To fuel the generator, it required him to ascend a ladder into a loft area where the generator is located. At some point he fell from…

Mark Puente

Plain Dealer (Cleveland)

Cleveland paramedics will soon be dodging bullets with the police SWAT…

Had to work last night. The Monroeville Fire Department was dispatched to my own neighborhood for a elderly gentlemen who had wandered away from home. Temperatures were in the the single digits, as is most of the east coast right now.

Fire and EMS personnel from the 5 local departments, plus some mutual aid units (not sure who all was called in), searched the neighborhoods and woods for nearly 3 1/2 hours. I have to admit that, given the temps, I did not think an elderly…

So....at the risk of over-simplifying the FIREFIGHTER SURVIVAL issue...

...here are 12 thoughts that might just work:



1-If we recruit, hire and promote the best possible people with strict and tough hiring standards and very tough and…

I use upoc, first alert network, and incident paging system to monitor emergnecy incidents in Western PA.

Feel free to notify me of any working incidents that you are aware of. If I am avaialble and can get there quickly enough, I will respond and take some photos of the incident. Understand that many FD's now carry camera's on their rigs. However, when the beast is raging, your crews have work to do. Let me and my cameras document your work.