firefighters

There is a new joint initiative between South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue (SYFR) and Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust (YAS). It sees firefighters who assist First Responders when emergencies occure. They are dispatched in case of…

 On Friday evening, January 27, 2017, the Italian Fire Departments that provided aid during the series of earthquakes in central Italy in the summer of 2016, won the coveted Conrad Dietrich Magirus Award together with the title…

In these hours Chile is facing a disastrous phoenomenon which is threatening forestry in the whole country. More than 90 blazes have burnt 180,000 hectares, razing hundreds of homes and turning villages to ashes. The campaign to…

Paramedics' risk of being assaulted exceeds firefighters

MANCHESTER (UK) - On thursday night a fire start in the Maple Mill paper factory, in Cardwell street, Manchester

The Pateros Volunteer Fire & Rescue Brigade or “Pateros Volunteers” was created in 2006 and was founded by its four original members. There wasn’t any existing volunteer group in Pateros. So, they decided to establish one there, even if…

On November 9, 10 and 11, the city of Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, received the traditional SENABOM, which is the annual firefighter's seminar

During a special session in 2016, the state of Utah approved the legislation according to which, authorities are allowed to shoot down drones whether they fly too close to firefighting operations.

The HSE’s National Ambulance Service (NAS) is being forced to send local authority fire crews to medical emergencies when no ambulance is available