On Monday, July 5, 2010 at 4am, units of the San Jose Fire Department responded to a major fire at Trace Elementary School located at 651 Dana Avenue in the city’s Rose Garden neighborhood. Photo by Craig Rose (smokeshowing), part of the Firefighter-EMT.com Flickr Group contributor pool.

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We’ll be having a contest to give one away during the month of September. Stay tuned!

You can choose among T-shirts, hoodies, V-necks and all different sizes from children to adults!
Visit the store to place your order. FYI, our earnings are $1 per T-shirt and all goes straight towards maintaining and improving this site.

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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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On July 16, two pipelines in the port city of Dalian, China, exploded, sending flames hundreds of feet into the air and burning for over 15 hours. The damaged pipes released thousands of gallons of oil, which flowed into the nearby harbor and the Yellow Sea. Photo by the Associated Press. You can see more [...]

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“Ventilation of roof during house fire” by Chris Chumbley, regular Firefighter-EMT.com photo contributor. Photo copyright and attribution to Chris Chumbley.

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Entitled “I Own Your Airway”, this photo by Chris Chumbley is part intimidating, part awesome. Chris is a regular contributor to the Firefighter-EMT photo pool. The image is copyrighted to him.

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Happy Cinco de Mayo from us at Firefighter-EMT.com!

Today’s POD is brought to you by Craig Rose (aka smokeshowing), a regular contributor at Firefighter-EMT.com’s Flickr pool. San Jose Firefighters assume an offensive strategy to knock down a stubborn garage fire.

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Photo credit: Aaron Favila - AP
A huge blaze has swept through a shanty town outside the Philippines capital, leaving one dead, 600 houses destroyed and more than 10,000 people homeless. The blaze was thought to have been started by faulty power lines. Two hundred fire engines were sent to fight the flames in the Quezon [...]

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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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