Noting that October is Fire Prevention Month, personnel at the Norwood Park Fire Department hosted an open house at the Harwood Heights station on Oct. 2. Attendance was steady on a sunny Sunday ...

Earlier this year, a vehicle accident along Southern California’s Highway 101 left a car dangling over a 100′ drop near Santa Barbara. Seeing this incident made me question both my physical ...

Palatine Rural Fire Protection District firefighters recently completed auto extrication training with two experts from Florida. Firefighter Aaron Gross and Captain Clint Roberts from Hillsborough ...

Today we had an excellent “guest” instructor, Firefighter Joe Blank, from Saint Paul Fire’s Rescue Squad 2. Joe delivered a very informative lecture on various types of automobiles (conventional, ...

FARGO — Recruits for the West Fargo and Fargo Fire Departments are halfway done with joint academy training. On Wednesday, the six recruits took part in auto extrication training, where responders ...

Automobiles are getting safer and necessarily more complicated and challenging for firefighters and responders who are called to rescue people after crashes. Firehouse Expo attendees learned from ...

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. – A precarious pile up of vehicles, including a bus donated by Tahoe Transport, was staged by South Lake Tahoe Fire Rescue at Welcome’s Auto Body and Towing to train fire ...

Jelissa Suarez used a reciprocating saw to cut through the steel on an old Buick. The saw shook her and bounced a few times, but she made it through and her cuts helped others tear the roof off the ...

Firefighters from across the nation gathered in Corona on Sunday, April 8, to learn how to rescue victims from trapped automobiles. Crews used the Jaws of Life and other tools to cut through more than ...

Firefighters from across the nation gathered in Corona on Sunday, April 8, to learn how to rescue victims from trapped automobiles. Crews used the Jaws of Life and other tools to cut through more than ...

Cobden — Whitewater Region (WWR) council has approved the replacement of its aging gas-powered auto extrication gear with battery-powered equipment, as recommended by the township’s fire chief, ...