Police-Fire

The fire dispatch tapes have been released in the shooting death of an off-duty Kansas City firefighter on his wedding night following a dispute over cab fare. Firefighter Anthony Bruno allegedly got into a dispute with a cab driver on ...

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A Pennsylvania police chief has filed suit against the fire department claiming his disabling lung condition was caused by a mold condition in the police station, which was rented from the fire department. Christopher P. Tolson, police chief for Dalton ...

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Two cases in the news lately have raised the controversial issue of whether firefighters have the right to use their red lights and siren to stop motorists who are driving erratically. The first case was from last July when a ...

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A volunteer firefighter in Plainville, Connecticut was charged earlier this year with larceny for using sick leave from his full time job as a police dispatcher in Southington. Stephen Chapman is accused of calling in six times during which time ...

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Today’s burning question: Two years ago while at the scene of a fire, a homeowner accused my fire department of stealing money from her bedroom. Because my crew was the only one to enter the bedroom to check for extension, ...

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A firefighter with the Lakeland Fire Department who was caught up in a sex scandal involving Lakeland police officers has chosen to resign. David Bivens resigned yesterday just before his pre-disciplinary hearing was set to begin.

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Today’s Burning Question: We were returning from an alarm and we saw a car driving erratically. We were afraid the car was going to kill someone – so we turned on our emergency lights and siren and the car pulled ...

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Five DC firefighters are in hot water over some controversial comments they posted on Facebook. The controversy began when a firefighter posted a photo of a DC police officer who had just issued the firefighter a traffic ticket. Along with ...

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  A firefighter from Ada, Oklahoma has been arrested for allegedly directing threats on Facebook at a police officer who arrested his wife. Vincent Jason Smeltz, 42, was arrested Tuesday on charges that he used a computer system to inflict ...

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The facts are not all in, but it appears we have another instance of police fire wars, this time in South Africa. Dave Statter is on this so there’s no need to repeat it all here – but what we ...

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A 63 page complaint has been filed in Federal Court in Pennsylvania alleging that three firefighters, two of whom are also police officers, had inappropriate sexual relationships with a 15 year old junior firefighter. The suit, filed under the name ...

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The incident was captured on dashboard camera of Officer Gilbertson’s cruiser.

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Not sure how we missed this case when it happened back in June, but a police officer in Trenton, New Jersey issued a ticket to the driver of a battalion chief’s vehicle for blocking traffic at the scene of an ...

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A Mississippi fire chief and a county deputy sheriff are the latest participants in the ongoing Police-Fire Wars. The incident occurred last Sunday at a motor vehicle accident in Poplarville, Mississippi. Allegedly the single vehicle involved in the crash was ...

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