A firefighter works to extinguish forest fires on the outskirts of the Russian city of Voronezh, July 30, 2010. (REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin) As of Tuesday, the Russian government said 529 major blazes were raging across central Russia, including what the official meteorological service described as a “fiery ring” of 90 suburban peat bog fires encircling Moscow, [...]

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With the World Cup now over and Spain the winner, we thought it may be interesting to highlight a soccer-related fire incident that occurred nearly 25 years ago.
The Bradford City Fire Disaster occurred on Saturday, May 11, 1985 when a flash fire consumed one side of the Valley Parade football stadium in Bradford, England.
The fire [...]

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Somerville firefighters rescued a trapped woman and evacuated other occupants from a three-alarm blaze in a triple-decker home near Magoun Square Sunday night.
The blaze broke out shortly before 6:30 p.m. Somerville Fire Chief Kevin Kelleher said efforts to put out the fire at 111 Glenwood Road were complicated when a live electrical wire dropped from [...]

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The aviation simulator, which was unveiled in November 2006, provides a technologically challenging and realistic training environment for Manchester Airport’s 120-strong team of fire fighters. Located at Manchester’s Category 10 International Airport, the simulator has been designed, built and installed by UK-based Simulation TER ltd.
The huge 280-ton structure is 13.0 metre high, 44 meters long [...]

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Federal authorities say Massachusetts should enact laws that require firefighters to wear selt belts and be tested on air brakes before they are allowed to drive fire trucks, according to an investigation report released today on the fatal fire truck crash in Boston last year.
The investigation conducted by the Firefighter Fatality Investigation and Prevention Program [...]

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On Sunday, April 18, 2010, at approximately 5:45 AM, units of the CIty of Santa Clara Fire Department responded to multiple reports of a fully engulfed single story residential structure at 1044 Homestead Road. Photo by Firefighter-EMT.com contributor smokeshowing.

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The 140-foot Three Forty Three fireboat is a $27 million ship is capable of 18 knots (about 20mph). It’s equipped with a 50-foot crane that can hold two people in a basket at its end, and actually has a camera attached on the underside to take a closer look at the water. It’s the longest [...]

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Firefighter-EMT is coordinating a shipment of firefighting equipment to Chile in light of the earthquake that happened on February 27, 2010.

Currently the Swarthmore Fire and Protective Association in Swarthmore, PA, as well as the Garden City Fire Department, will be donating used firefighting equipment including jackets, bunker gear, helmets, gloves, hoods and boots in an [...]

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A top fire department official minced no words in criticizing a firefighter who parked a truck on a set of train tracks while responding to an accident. The fire truck was subsequently hit by a train.

Photo by David Guralnick / The Detroit News
“I’m very upset,” said executive fire commissioner James Mack. “I’m going to make [...]

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The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has a fantastic video demonstrating the power of fire engulfing a dry pine Christmas tree. The entire room is consumed in less than a minute!
Download (5MB mpg) the video for educational purposes.

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