Dramatic highway extrication saves 3
In a dramatic rescue operation on stretch of Highway 101 near Buellton, California, a mother and her two daughters were successfully extricated from their BMW when it was struck from behind by a truck and ended up dangling high over Nojoqui Creek on Highway 101. A team of Navy Seabees happened to be passing by [...]
Top fire and EMS photos of 2011
Rep. Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona was shot in the head January 8 when an assailant opened fire outside a grocery store during a meeting with constituents, killing six people and wounding 13 others. In the above still captured from TV, she is wheeled to awaiting ambulances.
Digging out survivors: Rescue workers sift through the debris of [...]
Merry Christmas and stay safe
Photo by micu_paramedic. Selected with permission from the Firefighter-EMT.com photo contributor group.
As the holiday and the end of the year draws close, we at Firefighter-EMT.com want to thank you for your continued readership and want to wish you all a safe, warm Christmas and New Years with family and friends, wherever in the world you [...]
10 years on
Firefighter-EMT.com salutes the firefighters, the EMTs, the first responders, and all those who laid their lives down 10 years ago in an effort to save others lives.
Photo of the Day, September 7, 2011
Hundreds of families have been left homeless after a wind-fueled wildfire swept through Central Texas. More than 1,000 homes were destroyed, and 5,000 residents evacuated, as the flames spread yesterday to cover more than 25,000 acres. Firefighters were last night hoping for a drop in the winds, the remnants of Tropical Storm Lee, so they [...]
Photo of the Day, August 24, 2011
A San Jose firefighter emerges from the steam.
Photo used by permission from smokeshowing
Firefighting planes have perhaps been too long on job
Smoke plumes from the Wallow fire fill the sky in Luna, New Mexico, on Monday. Photo courtesy of AP.
With wildfire season starting early and fires already raging across Arizona, the U.S. Forest Service is confronting a longtime problem that many inside and outside the agency think needs an immediate fix: The large tanker planes leased [...]
Update: Deadly tornado kills at least 116 in Joplin, Missouri
Photo credit: Mark Schiefelbein/Associated Press
A series of turbulent and deadly storms swept through the Midwest on Sunday as a powerful tornado slammed into Joplin, Mo., ripping the top off a hospital, shearing parts of the roof off a high school and turning major retail stores into heaps of rubble and twisted metal.
A coroner’s official reported [...]
Photo of the Day, March 14, 2011
Photograph by Aly Song / Reuters
Photo from the Boston Globe: A resident is rescued from debris in Natori, Miyagi, northern Japan March 12 after one of the country’s strongest earthquakes ever recorded hit its eastern coast March 11. (Asahi Shimbun, Noboru Tomura/Associated Press)
8.9 Earthquake Hits in Japan - Tsunami Warnings in Effect
An 8.9-magnitude earthquake struck off the northeast coast of Japan on Friday, shaking office buildings in Tokyo and setting off a devastating tsunami that swept away cars and boats.
The quake — the world’s fifth largest since 1900, according to the U.S. Geological Survey — struck at 2.46 p.m. local time.
There were reports of injuries in [...]
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