Tag: Firefighters: Page 6

Training

N.M. Cop Helps Save Baby for Burning Building

An Albuquerque (N.M.) Police officer on his way home from completing a graveyard shift helped rescue a baby from a burning apartment building early Thursday.

June 13, 2013

Patrol

Responders Search Texas Fertilizer Plant Blast Area

Emergency responders began combing through the blast zone on Thursday from a massive fertilizer-plant explosion in West, Texas that left up to 15 people dead or missing.

April 17, 2013

Patrol

Wis. Cop Suffers Heart Attack Responding To Burglary

A Town of Brookfield (Wis.) Police officer apparently died of a heart attack while responding to a burglary call Friday night. Officer Donald Bishop, 32, was alone in his patrol car, when he drove off the roadway.

April 12, 2013

Special Units

Gunman Holding Ga. Firefighters Killed

A Gwinnett County (Ga.) Police SWAT team shot and killed a man who had taken five firefighters hostage earlier Wednesday. The hostages were released with only minor injuries.

April 9, 2013

Patrol

FEMA: Hash Oil Extraction Causing Explosions

Last week FEMA issued an alert stating that some explosions in residences and hotels have possibly been caused by a process using butane to extract and concentrate compounds from marijuana.

February 26, 2013

Patrol

Ex-con Ambushed, Killed 2 Firefighters

An ex-con killed two firefighters with the same caliber and make military-style rifle used in the Connecticut school massacre after typing a note pledging to burn down his neighborhood and "do what I like doing best, killing people," police said Tuesday as another body, believed to be the gunman's missing sister, was found.

December 24, 2012

Patrol

Wis. Cop Pulls Gun on Speeding Firefighter

Two adjacent public-safety departments in Dane County are at odds after a firefighter says he was subjected to excessive force by a police officer from a nearby village while trying to respond to a fire call.

November 4, 2012

Patrol

Video: SD Cop Pulls Woman Away from Fire by Hair

The San Diego Police Department launched an internal investigation after one of the agency's officers was captured on video dragging a distraught woman by her hair away from her house as it became engulfed in flames.

October 21, 2012

Patrol

Tenn. Sgt. Killed Saving Firefighters

Kenny Fox, a sergeant for the Decatur County (Tenn.) Sheriff's Office and the fire chief of District 3 in Decaturville, died Saturday morning after saving the lives of two other volunteer firefighters by pushing them out of the way before a roof collapsed in a fire.

April 8, 2012

Patrol

Wis. Deputy Dies Fighting Theater Fire

A Marathon County (Wis.) Sheriff's deputy died Sunday, after he became trapped in an engulfed theater with two other firefighters. Deputy Jamison Kampmeyer was also a volunteer for the Colby Fire Department.

March 5, 2012

Patrol

Police: Va. Cop Stabbed 2 Firefighters After Crash

A Virginia Beach police officer reportedly stabbed two firefighters after he wrecked his car. Officer Bradley Colas crashed in Hallwood about 6:42 a.m. Sunday.

March 4, 2012

Patrol

Shots Fired: Portland, Oregon 12/14/1996

After a mentally ill woman fired on a paramedic responding to her call that she ingested poison, Portland Police Officer Scott Westerman was tragically forced to counter her attack.

December 20, 2010