Apparatus

A South Carolina firefighter has been charged with driving under the influence following an apparatus accident last week. John Russel Hendrix Jr. of the Starr Fire Department was operating an engine that went off the road, and rolled over.

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A Massachusetts firefighter and his fire department will have to travel to Connecticut to defend themselves in a civil suit arising out of an accident which occurred in Hartford in 2019. Ileana Torres filed suit against firefighter Zachary Lemieux, the Brimfield Fire Department and Town of Brimfield, Massachusetts.

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A lawsuit has been filed by an insurer over a fire that destroyed a West Virginia fire truck in 2019. The Arch Insurance Co. filed suit this month against Shaffer Ford and Ford Motor Company for the destruction of a 2004 Ford F-Super Duty 550 owned by the Aurora Volunteer Fire Department.

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A Detroit firefighter who was driving a squad truck when it collided with a parked car as it arrived on the scene of a medical emergency, has been suspended as the department investigates whether he was under the influence. The incident occurred Sunday, February 21, 2021 involving an unidentified 26-year-old member driving Squad 6.

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The estate of a Virginia woman who died after being run over by a fire department pickup truck while lying on a North Carolina beach has filed suit against the fire department and the vehicle’s driver. Martha Mackey DeMontpellier died on September 14, 2019 after being struck by a Chevrolet Silverado belonging to the Chicamacomico Banks Fire Department.

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A Hong Kong firefighter has been arrested following a collision between an aerial device and a bicyclist. The unidentified firefighter was driving the truck last Sunday, December 6, when it veered off the road and into a guard rail.

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A Nevada fire department and a battalion chief are facing a wrongful death suit over a 2018 accident that killed two people. The Central Lyon County Fire Protection District and BC Brett Larkin are being sued by the family of Joseph House Jr., who died in a motor vehicle accident on August 21, 2018.

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The parents of a University of Connecticut student who was run over by a campus fire department vehicle in 2016 have agreed to settle a wrongful death lawsuit for $1 Million. Jeffny Pally, 19, died on October 16, 2016 after being struck by a UConn Fire Department SUV.

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A fire district in New York has filed suit against Ferrara Fire Apparatus, Inc. claiming a 2015 aerial platform ladder truck was defective. The East Fishkill Fire District filed suit last week in US District Court for the Southern District of New York seeking just over $1 million.

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The family of a man killed in a collision with a responding fire chief in Mississippi last year, has filed suit against the county fire council and the chief. Kenneth Fitzgerald was killed when the vehicle he was riding in collided with a Ford F-350 owned by the Jones County Volunteer Fire Department Council and operated by Fire Chief Anthony Pitts of the Soso Volunteer Fire Department.

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A New Jersey firefighter who was injured last year in a mishap with an engine following an out of town celebration, is suing the department and several firefighters. Brian Smith was part of a three-person crew from the South Hackensack Fire Department that took an engine to attend a “wet down” party at the Fair Lawn Fire Department on June 23, 2018.

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A New York Supreme Court judge has found that a driver who struck a firefighter directing traffic at the scene of a vehicle accident, is liable to the firefighter and his wife for his injuries. Kyle J. Pierce, a volunteer firefighter with the Sherburne Fire Department, was directing traffic at an accident scene on November 15, 2016 when he was struck by a vehicle operated by Thomas O. Bigelow.

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The Supreme Court of Ohio has refused to overturn a court of appeals decision granting immunity to a fire department in a suit over the death of a woman who was backed over by a fire truck. Lorri Riehm was killed in 2016 when she was run over by a Green Springs Rural VFD vehicle that was repositioning at the scene of a water rescue incident.

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The Louisiana Court of Appeals has upheld a verdict finding a firefighter 75% at fault for an accident because the emergency lighting on the vehicle that the firefighter was driving was insufficient to warn other drivers. The accident occurred as firefighter Troy Guitreau was responding to a medical emergency in Livingston Parish Fire Protection District 2...

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