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An Illinois firefighter who was catastrophically injured in 2016 during a live fire training exercise, has lost his appeal to get health insurance benefits that are available to firefighters injured when responding to actual emergencies. Sean T. Heneghan was a firefighter for the City of Evanston.

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The City of Baltimore has reached settlement in the wrongful death case of a trainee killed during a live-fire training exercise in a vacant building in 2007. Racheal M. Wilson, age 29 and the mother of two, died on February ...

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The investigation into a live fire training accident in Pennsylvania last month continues with the state Department of Labor and Industry sending a warning letter to the Jackson Township Fire Department. A 16 year old junior firefighter was seriously injured ...

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Does the headline really say that? Yes it does. The Fairmount Volunteer Fire Department and two men, Ryan Miller and James Taylor, pled guilty to criminal charges of unlawful burning after they burned Miller’s demolished house in Westover, Maryland, without ...

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