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Fire Fighters, Fire Safety, and Hazard Preventions are the main topic on Emergency Live. Read our case reports, stories and opinions regarding the professionals involved in unsafe and hazardous environment with fire and chemical exposures.
Patrick Hardison, the story of a transplanted face on a firefighter with burns
A volunteer firefighter from Mississippi whose face was burned off during a fire in September 2001 has received a full face transplant, with the medical community describing the successful operation as an historic event.
No fire attack or building is worth the life of a firefighter
Extend LIMITED Risk to Protect SAVABLE Property. Rules of Engagement for Structural Firefighting.
To cause the incident commander to limit risk exposure to a reasonable, cautious and conservative level when trying to save a building that…
World Rescue Challenge 2015, all the Teams who will participate at the event
Three weeks to go until the 17th World Rescue Challenge in Lisboa Portugal. The WRO and ANSD are aiming to have all 68 team slots filled. Yes, 68 teams will be competing in what will be the largest World Rescue Challenge so far.
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A Day in the Life of A Firefighter (Santa Monica Edition)
Fire Fighter: two words that contain a more that they means. Fire fighters are an extraordinary people that are always at our side to help us and to give us security, even we do not always need to.
Every day their fight with and against…
Lisbon hosts the World Rescue Challenge 2015
The Associação Nacional de Salvamento e Desencarceramento (ANSD), exclusive representative of the World Rescue Organisation (WRO) in Portugal, hosts of the next 15th and 18th October at the Park of Nations in Lisbon, the World Rescue…
9/11 responders: Congress must renew health programs
NEW YORK (AP) — Dozens of 9/11 rescue and recovery workers gathered at the World Trade Center site on Thursday to demand that Congress extend programs offering money and free health care to people exposed to toxic dust after the terror…
How to prevent wildfires? The Australian Guidelines for burning vegetation
These guidelines provide fire users with information to plan, prepare and conduct: fuel reduction burns, stubble burns, burning of piles heaps and windows, prescribed fires.
Former Buckeye and NFL Player Graduates Fire Academy
A former Ohio State Buckeye and NFL football player is "on fire" over his new career path. Antonio Pittman is using what he learned as a running back to graduate from the Ohio Fire Academy on Friday. Pittman was in a class of 18 men and…
VIKING Guardian: Innovative dedication to help reduce the firefighter cancer threat
The 2015 Interschutz exhibition in Hannover, Germany, was the stage for a powerful demonstration that leading fire suit manufacturer VIKING Life-Saving Equipment (VIKING) is able to listen closely and respond quickly to key firefighter…
Wildfire in Washington Report: Winds Shifted Minutes Before Firefighters Killed
Seven minutes after a deputy radioed that the wind from a growing wildfire had shifted direction, dispatchers got a second call: A burn victim needed an ambulance. Five minutes later, another caller said several firefighters were trapped.