Tag Archives: apparatus accident

A fatal apparatus accident last June in California has led to a civil claim being filed against the fire department. It has also led some to ask once again what is wrong with our justice system. The answer is: read ...

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A Virginia jury has returned a defense verdict in favor of the estate of the driver of an engine company that collided with a civilian vehicle back in 2010, resulting in two firefighter fatalities. Rocky Mount Volunteer Fire Chief, Posey ...

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A volunteer firefighter and his fire company have been sued over a vehicle accident last summer that severely injured an 8 year old boy. Timothy and Jennifer Kolodychak filed suit last week in Westmoreland County Common Pleas Court against Rostraver ...

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The death of a volunteer firefighter who was responding to fire in Nipissing, Ontario has prompted criminal charges being filed against the fire department. Firefighter Paul Nelson, 21, was killed on December 27, 2011 when the engine he was driving ...

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Today, the City of Baltimore settled a wrongful death suit brought by the estates of three people killed in a SUV that collided with a ladder truck in 2007. The accident occurred at 3:00 am on December 9, 2007, when ...

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The estate of a Virginia volunteer firefighter killed in a LODD roll-over accident has filed a wrongful death suit against the estate of the fire chief and another driver. The suit seeks $2 million in damages. Firefighter William D. Altice ...

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The driver and the officer of a Lake County, Florida engine company that was involved in a fatal Christmas day accident in 2009, have been sued for $1.4 million. The suit was filed on behalf of Gieco Insurance Company to recoup ...

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A fire chief in Louisiana has been sued for an accident that occurred in 2010. Fire Chief Marty Thibodeaux of the Little Caillou Volunteer Fire District was responding to a call in a department-owned SUV when he rear-ended a boat ...

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Kansas City, Missouri reached a $280,000 settlement with Hope Nkani and Gift Nkani, parents of  7-year-old  boy Obarimomoya Nkani who was struck and killed by a responding city fire truck in 2009. Obarimomoya was returning home from Woodland Elementary School ...

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The Bridgeport Fire Department has been found liable for an apparatus accident that claimed the lives of two women in 2007. The accident occurred on July 31, 2007, as Ladder 5, driven by Firefighter David Otero, was responding to a ...

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Here’s today’s burning question: Can my fire department be sued if a driver smashes into a parked ambulance belonging to another fire department? Apparently so if you are in New York!!! A New York volunteer fire company and a village are ...

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The driver of a Houston ladder truck that was involved in a fatal accident in March of 2009, is speaking out about the accident, the public’s rush to judgment, and the investigation that seemed to place most of the blame ...

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On March 30, 2009, Leigh Boone was standing at a street corner with her bicycle, when a Houston Fire Department ladder truck responding to an alarm collided with an engine company, and within a split second rolled on top of ...

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