Tag Archives: drunk driving

In this episode of Fire Law Roundup for October 23, 2023, Brad and Curt discuss a lawsuit by an Iowa firefighter injured when the engine on which he was riding collided with a piece of farm machinery being driven by ...

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A public policy watchdog group has filed suit against City of Warren, Michigan seeking the names of firefighters who are among the city's high-wage earners. The city previously released the pay of its employees in response to a public records request, but refused to provide the associated names.

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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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A volunteer firefighter who struck and killed another volunteer firefighter at the scene of a previous accident, has been sentenced to six years in prison for drunk driving. Colby Blake was sentenced yesterday in Daviess County, Indiana.

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One volunteer firefighter was killed and a second charged following a collision at the scene of an accident both were responding to in Daviess County. Members of the Montgomery Volunteer Fire Department and Cannelburg Volunteer Fire Department were responding to the incident when...

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A Texas firefighter who reportedly was responding to an alarm, crashed into an occupied dwelling and is now facing charges of driving while intoxicated. Blake Stevens, a volunteer firefighter in La Porte, was arrested after his pickup truck slammed into a child’s bedroom last night

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The infamous case of the drunk San Francisco firefighter who struck a motorcyclist with a ladder truck and then fled the scene on foot in 2013, is moving toward a final settlement. On June 29, 2013, FF Michael Quinn was driving a ladder truck on a run when he proceeded through a red traffic light and collided with a motorcycle driven by Jack Frazier.

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In a ruling that seems to have surprised the media and many firefighters, the drunk driving case against San Francisco firefighter Michael Quinn has been dismissed. Quinn was driving a ladder truck that struck and nearly killed a motorcyclist, Jack Frazier, on June 29, 2013. A security camera captured the dramatic incident.

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A 24 year old female firefighter is accused of taking a fire truck on a joy ride last Saturday evening, something she may have even gotten away with had she not started talking on the radio. Chelsea Matthew is facing charges of driving under the influence after taking a Lincoln-Ottawa-Harrison Fire District brush unit for a ride without permission.

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A veteran Austin, Texas firefighter with 29 years on the department and an unblemished record has been terminated over a drunk driving arrest. Firefighter Mark Madison, 52, was arrested on May 10, 2014 after his vehicle struck a guard rail ...

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The North Carolina Supreme Court has issued a final ruling in the case of State v. Dorothy Verkerk that raised the issue of whether firefighters who use their red lights and sirens to stop a vehicle driving recklessly violate the ...

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Two more firefighters have been disciplined in the aftermath of the drunk driving incident in San Francisco last June that nearly cost a motorcyclist his life. Two assistant chiefs, Art Kenney and Dave Franklin, have been suspended for 10 days ...

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A New Jersey firefighter has been charged with drunk driving a ladder truck at 2 1/2 times the legal limit following an apparatus accident that sent one firefighter to the hospital. Captain Russell Fenn IV of the Elmwood Park Fire ...

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Two negligence lawsuits are in the fire law news today, one in New York involving the delayed response of an FDNY ambulance, the other in Pennsylvania where a firefighter aboard a tanker driven by an intoxicated chief is suing the ...

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