Venice is most popular for its gondolas and canals, but it also has something else of interest: a water ambulance fleet (their police and fire fleet also has water-based units). This mode of transportation is most practical in an area where cars are strictly prohibited. The Ventian EMS, known as Venezia Emergenza, operates this ALS [...]

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On May 17, 2008, two Swedish women ran out onto a busy UK highway and were struck by a truck and a car, all in front of medical personnel. One of them would later wake up and resist the very police who were there to make sure she got the help she needed.
More than two [...]

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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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Jump into gear, into a car, and respond. Looks, sounds, and feels pretty normal were it not all virtual - these firefighters are part of the virtual online community of Grand Theft Auto. This particular department is the Los Santos Fire Department, part of the San Andreas Fire Department stations, in the fictional town of [...]

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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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Video source: Reuters.

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Public service employees in the Netherlands face aggression and violence on the streets more and more often. Onlookers unfortunately do not intervene often enough when they encounter a situation like this. A live interactive billboard in Amsterdam and Rotterdam is used to place people in a similar situation witch confronts them with their inactivity.

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Investigators in Michigan have released video from on board an Amtrak train earlier this month as it slammed into a fire truck.
The train was traveling from Dearborn, Michigan to Chicago on March 1st, when it came upon a ladder truck parked across the tracks.

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The Fairfax County, Virginia Urban Search and Rescue (Virginia Task Force 1) is getting prepared to go to Chile after the country sustained a devastating earthquake over the weekend.
Meanwhile, a similar elite USAR team known as the Los Angeles County Fire Department “Heavy Rescue Task Force,” based out of Los Angeles, California, was not [...]

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