firefighters

19 Arizona firefighters killed in one of nation's deadliest blazes All 19 had deployed person fire shelters and most were found inside. This is the worst hotshot disaster that comes to my mind anyway - 15 were killed at Alder Creek and around the same number in the infamous Mann Gulch fire in...

We're having a debate, locally, about whether our firefighters should become a pay for service outfit. Under this deal the fire department would bill anyone they help for the cost of whatever they did. Needless to say this is not too popular but a lot of politicians promised cuts in property...

Lately I've been hearing the statement that 73% of firefighters in the U.S. are volunteers. This seems to have originated with the National Volunteer Fire Council. The statement is made in this document. Leaving off the spin this statement usually gives to anti-big-government arguments...

Since it has almost been 9 years since 9/11, there are still a lot of misconceptions floating around about fires and firefighting. So to help clarify and answer any questions people may have, I started this thread. I also ask that any other posters with firefighting experience to join in as well.

As we all know, it has proven very difficult for Truthers to come up with a plausible inside job scenario that doesn't in some way implicate the FDNY. And cunning devils they are, Truthers are usually very careful to avoid making any accusations (see: Jason Bermas and the "Jedi Mind Trick")...

In another thread Dictator Cheney, in an attempt to show that firefighters know there were bombs in the towers, wrote: So this thread is for him or any other truther to list the names of firefighters on the scene who believe it was bombs that caused the towers to collapse and killed hundreds...

Reading the book at the moment, and will post passages relevant to the CT's.

I know this has been discussed before, but I want to ATTEMPT to get a CF stance on whether or not the firefighters were in on it. If you ask a CF what they think, they will simply cry out "We never said they were in on it!". This of course is contradictory to other claims that they make. For...

http://www.sltrib.com/utah/ci_3004197 Never let a good photo-op go to waste, although one wonders if their time couldn't have been spent more productively...

Frustrated: Fire crews to hand out fliers for FEMA IMHO: I'm sorry, there was no "miscommunication" here. Does anyone seriously think that these firefighters would come all the way down to New Orleans if all they were going to do was hand out flyers, take sexual harrasment seminars, and try to...

Over the last month, President Bush has repeatedly recounted how he was inspired by "the courage of the firefighters and the police" in the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks. http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/04/20040420-4.html He recounted how, when standing atop a...