Remember the fallen with lessons learned NIOSH Fire Fighter Fatality Investigation and Prevention Program On May 14, 2003, a career federal fire fighter (the victim) was severely burned while working at a prescribed burn operation. The prescribed burn ...
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NFFF IC to IC Discussion: Yarnell Hill Fire with Chief Eric Kriwer
Insight into what happens when an incident commander suffers a LODD National Fallen Firefighters Foundation The National Fallen Firefighters Foundation launched its Incident Commander-to-Incident Commander (IC to IC) Network in 2020 to support incident commanders involved in ...
Read More »Dry Conditions, Wind, Contributed to Fatal China Wildfire
18 firefighters and guide killed in blaze BEIJING (AP) — Chinese officials say dry conditions, high temperatures and a sudden change in wind direction all contributed to the deaths of 19 people in a forest fire in mountainous ...
Read More »Firefighters Among 19 Killed in Forest Fire in China
Wildfire in same area of previous fatal fire BEIJING (AP) — Nineteen people have died while fighting a raging forest fire in southwestern China and hundreds of reinforcements were sent to fight the blaze and evacuate nearby residents, ...
Read More »Preliminary Report Released on C-130 Tanker Crash in Australia
American crew killed in crash on January 23, 2020 Australian Transport Safety Bureau The Australian Transport Safety Bureau has released the preliminary report from its ongoing investigation into the collision with terrain of a Lockheed C-130 large air ...
Read More »USFA: Nebraska On-Duty Death
Firefighter collapsed after grass fire United States Fire Administration The U.S. Fire Administration has announced the official on-duty death of Firefighter/EMT Donald “Donny” Lepper, 46, of the Indianola Volunteer Fire and Rescue Squad on February 23, 2020. On ...
Read More »Report: Washington Assistant Chief Killed in Burnover
Johnson was caught without his coat and was overtaken by flames Spring Coulee Fire Facilitated Learning Analysis Sunday, September 1, 2019 dawned a beautiful day in the Okanogan Valley. Many of the area’s volunteer firefighters, including those from ...
Read More »California Firefighters Return from Australia
Bodies of two in tanker crash sent home By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — As the wildland firefighters, fresh off a long flight from Australia, strode into a Los Angeles fire station Wednesday morning, Marvin ...
Read More »Bodies of American Tanker Crew Recovered from Australia Wildfire Crash
Bodies and voice recorder retrieved By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — The bodies of three U.S. flying firefighters and the cockpit voice recorder from the water bomber in which they died battling Australia’s unprecedented wildfire ...
Read More »Australia Works to Recover Bodies of American Tanker Crew
Canadian-based company identifies C-130 crew SYDNEY (AP) — The American tanker plane that crashed while fighting Australian wildfires had just dropped a load of retardant on a fire before it went down in New South Wales state, investigators ...
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