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N.H. FFs Take Trench Training

The Union Leader (Manchester, NH)

Posted: Thu, 11/19/2009 - 22:50
Updated: Fri, 11/20/2009 - 09:46

By Alec O'Meara

Union Leader Correspondent

LONDONDERRY -- With the widening of Interstate 93 poised to become a major construction project in town over the next several years, Londonderry firefighters are spending the week preparing for trench cave-in rescues, one of the more dangerous and labor-intensive emergencies related to construction.

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Neb. Dept. Buys Training Trailer

Adrian Sanchez, Columbus Telegram, Neb.Columbus Telegram (Nebraska)

Posted: Wed, 11/18/2009 - 00:24

Nov. 17--COLUMBUS -- The Columbus Fire Department will have a simulator to educate Columbus and surrounding communities about fire safety following the City Council's approval Monday of an $82,701 combination sprinkler/fire safety house.

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Fire Starts During Oregon Training

Portland planned to train its firefighters with smoke Thursday, but got a bit more -- fire.

BY ELVIA AGUILAR

Corpus Christi Caller-Times

Posted: Sat, 11/14/2009 - 00:55
Updated: Sun, 11/15/2009 - 11:40

Portland planned to train its firefighters with smoke Thursday.

But they also got fire when the smoke grenades dropped into the abandoned house set trash inside on fire.

Fire Chief Jim Leahey said the nine firefighters had the fire under control throughout the drill at the house on the corner of Fourth and Houston streets.

The drill was part of several planned by the department to sharpen firefighters' skills.

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Mass. FF Candidate: Exam Is Pricey

Story by thebostonchannel.com

Posted: Thu, 11/12/2009 - 01:15
Updated: Thu, 11/12/2009 - 03:54

BOSTON --

A Boston firefighter candidate is speaking out about about the high fees charged to take the state's civil service exam when so few towns are hiring.

Jason Murray wants to be a Boston firefighter.

He said he paid a hefty fee to take the firefighter test last year and got a near-perfect score, but didn't get a job.

So, he has to take the test again, to the tune of another $200.

The state responded by saying that taking the civil service exam is not a guarantee of employment, and if an applicant took the

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Abbottville Exercise Teaches Disaster Management

The model was erected at Firehouse Central for class attendees to work on a simulated disaster.

By Ed Ballam and

Firehouse.com News

Posted: Wed, 11/04/2009 - 22:28
Updated: Thu, 11/05/2009 - 19:16

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There's been a disaster in the fictional town of Abbottville and responders from around the nation have been summoned to help fight the fires, tend to the injured and rescue those who have been trapped by debris.

Abbottville is a scale model diorama of a community decimated by a tornado that has flattened the town's residential section, severely damaged the high school and trapping 71 students inside the gym, der

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Laid-off Mass. FFs Collect Full Pay

Civil Service hearing law drags out process for 11 weeks

Mark E. Vogler

The Eagle-Tribune, North Andover, Mass.

Posted: Sat, 10/31/2009 - 13:24

Oct. 30--LAWRENCE -- Eight city firefighters have been getting paid to stay at home for 11 weeks while waiting for a decision on whether their layoffs were justified.

"Definitely, a couple of balls were dropped on this one," Mayor Michael Sullivan said yesterday of the personnel moves that prolonged the Fire Department's budget problem instead of eliminating it.

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Cheaper Calif. FF Academy Gets OK

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The Bakersfield Californian

Posted: Wed, 10/14/2009 - 00:19
Updated: Wed, 10/14/2009 - 15:50

Oct. 13--Supervisors approved a new firefighter academy Tuesday in an effort to train new employees before an annual wave of retirements hits in March.

But the decision turns Kern County Fire Department hiring traditions head-over-heels.

And it leaves some want-to-be firefighters like Andrew Stuebbe, whose name has lingered on a job list for more than a year, completely out of the loop.

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St. Pete FFs Must Check Path Before Trucks Leave Station

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Tampa Tribune, Fla.

Posted: Thu, 10/01/2009 - 10:09

Sep. 30--ST. PETERSBURG -- The city's fire department has instituted a rule designed to prevent firefighters from accidentally running over anybody that might be lying down on the other side of a station's bay door before firefighters are dispatched to a call.

On Sept. 24, two firefighters with St. Petersburg Fire and Rescue -- emergency medical technician Jason Springer and paramedic David Bucholz -- hopped into a truck inside their station, opened the bay and proceeded to run over a homeless man lying outside.

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Safety Train Makes Stop in Ohio With Rail Hazmat Training

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The Blade, Toledo, Ohio

Posted: Fri, 09/25/2009 - 08:55

Sep. 25--Several times per week, a Norfolk Southern train carrying 80 cars or so of flammable ethanol snakes its way through Toledo on its way from refineries west of Chicago to a gasoline-blending terminal in New Jersey.

If that train derailed, as it did with fiery results on a bridge outside Pittsburgh nearly four years ago, or if any other hazardous-materials shipments through northwest Ohio sprang a leak or was in an accident, would area emergency responders know what to do?

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Facility Shows Neb. Firefighters How Flames Act

By Web I. Team
Posted: Fri, 09/25/2009 - 00:27

OMAHA, Neb.

Omaha firefighters are training in a new facility that shows them the evolution of a fire from start to finish so they know how to better fight it and get out alive.

"If we get caught in a flashover, it's an almost unsurvivable atmosphere," said Omaha fire Capt. Chris Langlois.

He said flashovers are something he and other firefighters have to worry about facing every day. They're using the training facility to learn how a fire behaves.

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Portland planned to train its firefighters with smoke Thursday, but got a bit more -- fire.

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The model was erected at Firehouse Central for class attendees to work on a simulated disaster.

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