Photo of the Day, November 13, 2009
An ambulance rushes to the scene of a suicide car bomb attack on Pakistan’s main intelligence agency in the city of Peshawar, where officials say at least 12 people have been killed and 40 injured.
Arson suspected in Osaka slot parlor fire that kills 4
Around 4:15pm Japan time (3:15am EST) a fire broke out in a slot machine (pachinko) parlor in a first floor building in the Konohana Ward of Osaka. 4 people were killed, and 19 others seriously injured.
Location
Cross-Niko Niko slot machine parlor, first floor of the six-story Kojima Kensetsu building, in the Konohana Ward of [...]
London Fire Brigade rescues 30 in fire that kills 6
Image courtesy of BBC.
A rapidly moving fire in a London high-rise apartment complex has killed six people, including three children. The London Fire brigade are credited for having rescued 30 people from the burning building, with fifteen being taken to area hospitals.
Location
Lakanal Flats, high-rise building with 12 total floors, in Camberwell, south-east London.
Fire progress
The fire [...]
Court Rules Firefighters Unjustly Biased Based on Race
The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that white firefighters in New Haven were subjected to race discrimination when the city threw out a promotional examination on which they had done well and black firefighters poorly.
“The city rejected the test results solely because the higher scoring candidates were white,” Justice Anthony M. Kennedy wrote for the [...]
Nine killed and scores injured in Washington Metro collision
Listen to the radio recording (mp3, 64.5MB) of the incident here. Recording courtesy of DCFireFeed.com.
As of this hour nine individuals have been killed and more than 70 injured in a collision between two Washington Metro trains during the afternoon rush hour. This is likely to be the worst disaster in WMATA history. The crash occurred [...]
Fire in Polish Homeless Shelter Kills 21
Photo by Agence France-Presse — Getty Images.
A fire has ripped through a hostel for the poor and the homeless in Poland, killing at least 21 people and injuring 20 more.
The blaze broke out around 1am on Monday in Kamien Pomorski, near the Baltic Sea coast, 500 kilometers northwest of Warsaw.
Polish television showed the charred, gutted [...]
2 Houston Firefighters Found Dead After Fire
Officials comb the scene of the fire where two firefighters died on Easter Sunday. Photo by Brett Coomer, Houston Chronicle.
Two firefighters from Engine 26 were found dead after failing to show up for a roll call while battling a house fire in southeast Houston.
The Houston Fire Department says it was called to the home [...]
First Interstate Bank Fire, May 4, 1988
On the 4th of May, 1988, Los Angeles Fire Department crews responded to what became the most devastating high-rise fire in LA history. The 62-story First Interstate Bank, then the tallest structure in the United States west of Chicago, had a fire on the 12th floor and it was rapidly spreading upwards.
As it so happens, [...]
EMS Today Day 2
The exhibits opened at 9:30 this morning, so I had a somewhat late breakfast in time to make it to the opening of the exhibits hall. Following the rush of people towards several booths, I got a hold of a sturdy duffel bag from the folks at Physio, the guys behind LifePak. Above, demonstrating a [...]
Most EMS Recruits are Overweight, Obese
Photo courtesy of ABC News.
More than 75 percent of candidates for fire and ambulance services in Massachusetts are either overweight or obese, a situation that has major consequences for public health and safety, researchers say.
A team from BUSM, Boston Medical Center, Harvard University and the Cambridge Health Alliance reviewed the pre-placement medical examinations of 370 [...]
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