Family members and defense attorneys of five people convicted of causing a massive explosion in Kansas City, Missouri in 1988 that killed six firefighters, claim they have new evidence which raises a doubt about their guilt. The explosion at a ...

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A decision handed down today in US District Court for the District of Columbia is not going make the Rubin-haters in DC very happy, but its another ruling in favor of former Fire Chief Dennis Rubin. The case involved the ...

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A retired New Hampshire firefighter is challenging a state law that limits the number of hours he can work. Mark T. Lemay, a retired Manchester firefighter who works part-time for Goffstown, Litchfield and the State Fire Academy, has filed suit ...

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A chief officer in Florida has been terminated following allegations that he accepted $100 from a grateful citizen, and did not report it until confronted. Deputy Chief Guy Wine of the Cocoa Beach Fire Department was fired yesterday. He was ...

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Length of service award program allegedly discriminated against older firefighters.

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Here is a story we missed a month ago when it broke – a firefighter in Green Country, Oklahoma has been disciplined for violating a rule even though his decision resulted in saving two homes in the path of a ...

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A volunteer firefighter from Portage, Ohio has been sentenced to 9 months in prison for causing an accident in 2010 that killed a 24 year old man and seriously injured his girlfriend. Firefighter Timothy Johnson, now 43, of the Portage ...

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Today’s burning question: I keep reading that fire departments around the country are contemplating allowing their EMS crews to carry guns.  I was wondering what your opinion is on the legality of this? Answer: This seems to be the burning ...

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Sometimes its good to look at cases from other countries so we understand that the headlines we see here in the US are not representative of a uniquely American problem. Its really a function of human nature and the nature ...

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A councilman from Pennsylvania has been accused to punching the president of the local volunteer fire department during an argument. Joseph Ferraro, President of the Cheswick Volunteer Fire Company, claims that Cheswick Borough Council President Jonathan Skedel assaulted him Wednesday ...

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A Virginia firefighter has pled guilty to reduced charges in a sexual assault case involving a minor firefighter. Matthew Thomas Jones, a firefighter with the Read Mountain Fire and Rescue, pled guilty Monday to two misdemeanor counts of contributing to ...

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Three volunteer firefighters in three different states are in the news today for misconduct, and the charges are no surprise: arson and theft from a volunteer fire department. In Idaho, an 18-year-old volunteer firefighter has been arrested for setting a ...

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An arbitrator’s ruling that essentially granted firefighters what their contract said they were entitled to, has drawn sharp criticism from elected officials in Charlotte County, Florida. The criticism was so vitriolic that one county commissioner, Robert Skidmore, accused the firefighters ...

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The arrest of a Baltimore City medic for assaulting a combative patient has the firefighter’s union angry as they stand behind the medic. Medic Shaun White, 31, was charged last Friday with second degree assault following an incident that occurred on ...

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