Published Thursday February 14 2013 7:01 am. Tags: Arlington Heighst Fire Department, CPR, CPR training
The Arlington Heights Fire Department is providing CPR instruction on Tuesday, April 16, from 7 – 10 p.m. at the Arlington Heights Fire Department Administration Headquarters/ Fire Station #2, 1150 N. Arlington Heights Road. Class will be held in the Training Room, located on the second floor. The cost is $40 per person, and includes [...]
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Published Wednesday February 13 2013 5:27 pm. Tags: Chicago Fire Department, Fire Video, NBC
Preview: NBC Chicago reporter Stefan Holt reports with new video from the 5-11 alarm warehouse fire at Ashland Avenue and 38th Street tonight on the 10:00 news and tomorrow morning. Stefan Holt recently geared up with Chicago firefighters and will be reporting tonight on the 5-11 alarm warehouse fire at Ashland Avenue and 38th Street [...]
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Published Tuesday February 12 2013 8:59 am. Tags: Canada, Fire Video, firefighter hazard, Montreal, SCBA
A firefighting video posted from St-Michel generated much criticism for lack of safety during firefighting operations at an apartment fire in January 2013. Montreal firefighters were working on a 3-alarm fire at the corner of 15th Ave and Crémazie E in St-Michel on Wednesday morning, January 23, 2013. Air temperature outside was a cold -25°C [...]
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Published Friday February 01 2013 8:23 am. Tags: bridge collapse, China, explosion, fireworks explosion, truck explosion
A truck laden with fireworks exploded on an elevated highway in central China, killing eight people and injuring 13. The force of the blast sent several vehicles plummeting off the road, destroying an 80-meter section of the highway. A fireworks explosion occurred during heavy fog on the Yihang bridge near the city of Sanmenxia in [...]
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Published Thursday January 31 2013 7:12 pm. Tags: building explosion, high-rise building explosion, Mexico, Mexico City, Pemex
An explosion at the main headquarters of Mexico’s state-owned oil company in the capital Thursday heavily damaged three floors of the building, sending hundreds into the streets and a large plume of smoke over the skyline. An explosion at Pemex main headquarters — Mexico’s state-owned oil company in the Mexico City killed 14 people and [...]
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Published Sunday January 27 2013 2:58 pm. Tags: Bangladesh, Dhaka, factory fire, garment factory fire, N-11, Next Eleven
A fire in a garment factory has killed seven female workers and injured another five in the Bangladesh capital Dhaka on Saturday. The blaze comes just months after more than 100 died in another factory fire. Fire last November … Lack of fire exits cause major death toll after fire Saturday evening, November 24, 2012. [...]
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Published Saturday January 26 2013 12:01 pm. Tags: 5-11 alarm, 5-11 alarm fire, Chicago Fire Department
VIDEO: Chicago 5-11 Alarm at 3757 South Ashland with Radio Traffic. Chicago firefighters responded Tuesday, January 22, 2013 at about 9:00 p.m. to a warehouse fire after a special operations chief “5-1-5″ discovered smoke and fire in a warehouse at Ashland Avenue between 37th Street and 38th Street. The fire was quickly spreading as the [...]
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Published Sunday January 20 2013 9:34 pm. Tags: apartment fire, apartment fire Whiting, Indiana, Whiting Fire Department
Whiting firefighters responded to an extra alarm fire in downtown Whiting, Indiana and fought a fully-involved apartment fire while temperatures were well below freezing. VIDEO: Fully-involved apartment fire and firefighting operations while the air temperature was about 23°F with a 14°F wind chill. Dozens of residents were displaced after a fire spread through a multi-residence [...]
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Published Wednesday January 16 2013 9:41 pm. Tags: blight, Detroit, Detroit Burning, Detroit Fire Department, Fire Video, firefighter helmet cam, firefighters, firefighting video, helmet cam, helmetcam, Highland Park Fire Department
WXYZ-TV DETROIT: For the past year, Scott Ziegler of the Highland Park Fire Department mounted a camera to his helmet recording amazing footage. Scott Ziegler used a helmet-cam to capture on-the-job firefighting video in Highland Park, Michigan. The video was recently featured on ABC with John Schriffen reporting on Diane Sawyer’s segment. Ziegler filmed his [...]
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Published Friday January 11 2013 9:27 pm.
A man is in custody on suspicion of intentionally starting a fatal five-alarm fire Thursday in a New York City apartment building as part of a domestic dispute with his child’s mother Wei Chu Wu, 45, is accused of setting his apartment on fire after getting into a fight with his wife. The fire spread [...]
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Published Friday January 11 2013 12:59 pm. Tags: car fire, car fire San Diego, San Diego Fire Department
SOME GRAPHIC LANGUAGE: Fully-involved Cadillac: Not a good idea to stand directly behind a vehicle. The air bag canister can detonate and become a projectile that flies through the rear window. San Diego Fire Department Engine 19 crew responded to a car fire earlier this month. The video demonstrates where not to stand during a [...]
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Published Tuesday January 08 2013 7:05 pm. Tags: Australia, Australia wildfire, Fire and Rescue NSW, New South Wales, New South Wales Rural Fire Service, South Wales, wildfire
Firefighters are battling wildfires raging across southeastern Australia as authorities evacuated national parks and warned that blistering temperatures and high winds had led to “catastrophic” conditions in some areas. Thousands of fire fighters were on standby across New South Wales, Australia’s most populous state, where fire authorities said wildfire conditions were at the most severe [...]
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