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Firefighters from Engine 38 got a surprise on Wednesday when they got paged to a structure fire in the middle of grocery shopping. They got a second surprise when upon their return to the store the manager called the police

Mayor Mort Meyers says things have gotten out of hand and the Ashburn town council agrees. On Friday, the entire town sanitation department drove their garbage trucks to an office building on West 10th Street to help co-worker Lou Austero propose to his long-time girlfriend

Yesterday, Monday May 12, 2014, marked the start of Police week 2014. The president made some comments about police during his daily press briefing. Unfortunately he had on the wrong pin.

Residents of one New Jersey City woke up today to find their beloved shopping mall burned to the ground. According to the fire chief his members could have saved the building, if they had been notified to respond

Chief Roger Securus is making some waves in this department. After suggesting some changes to department operations was met with resistance, the chief offered up response that is sure to go down as legend.

In an initiative to help make the fire service safer comments posted to fire service related blogs and Facebook pages are to be used as part of after action reports.

Police officers from Junctio PD responded last week to a car fire. Armed with fire extinguishers the police had the fire out before the arrival of firefighters. Now the local fire union is upset that Police took work away from the fire service.

Captain Willie Wines from Ironfiremen.com is famous for both his keen observations about the fire service and his epic mustache. If you were lucky to meet him at FDIC you might have gotten a sample of his new line of mustache wax

Lt. Stanley Singer, a decorated veteran of the Colfax Heights Fire District, was recently celebrated after serving his community for over 30 years in a gala, retirement ceremony for the ages. However, not everyone was rejoicing over Singer’s heroic service.

The DuBois Volunteer fire department is facing a lawsuit from a family who lost everything in a house fire. The family claims that firefighters initially arrived on scene then took too long to make an entry. As a result beloved family pets were lost