FIREFIGHTER

California’s largest utility company has been blamed for half of the state’s most destructive fires since 2015. Now it has a plan to reduce the risk of sparks.

Northern Virginia Bureau Reporter Drew Wilder explains a judge’s ruling throwing out the conviction of a D.C. firefighter.

Northern Virginia Bureau Reporter Drew Wilder details how a former D.C. firefighter may be freed from jail because the officer involved in his arrest is accused of lying.

Gunfire struck a D.C. firefighter who was tending to a shooting victim in Southwest Washington Sunday night, police say. A man was shot about 4:20 p.m. in the parking lot of the 7-Eleven at the corner of MLK Avenue and South Capitol Street SW, police said. As firefighters and police responded to the shooting, gunfire erupted across the street...

A firefighter in Fairfax County, Virginia, was charged with assaulting a patient who was in his care on the way to a hospital, the fire department says. Firefighter Andrew Cruikshank and the patient got into an altercation in an ambulance on Sept. 14, the Fairfax County Fire Department said in a news release on Monday. Cruikshank was charged with one…

Crews have recovered the body of a Detroit firefighter who vanished in the Detroit River while helping save some girls from drowning

A D.C. murder suspect evading a warrant was arrested Thursday for assaulting a D.C. firefighter in an unrelated incident. Court documents obtained by News4 show that Seth Andrews, 33, allegedly punched a firefighter at the scene of a small fire on 18th St. NE Thursday night. When he was arrested for the alleged assault, officer discovered Andrews had an...

An off-duty firefighter and his wife pulled a child with autism out of a lake in Germantown Thursday night after spotting the child struggling in the water. The couple saw the child in the Lake Clopper going further away from shore and the firefighter entered the water to rescue him, officials said. After the child was pulled from the water,…

One of the new firefighter recruits in Fairfax County says it’s a job she’s been training for her whole life. Northern Virginia Bureau Reporter Drew Wilder introduces one of the county’s newest firefighters who took a unique path to the front lines.

An Iowa firefighter whose family has been devastated by the coronavirus says he wants people to know how easily the virus can spread.

Federal documents filed in Virginia show a firefighter from Pennsylvania has been charged with trying to arrange a meeting for sex with a 10-year-old girl

Crews battling Australia’s wildfires said Sunday that they have been able to turn from defense to offense for the first time in weeks thanks to a break in the weather.

The wildfire was behaving erratically last week, and Doug Schutz and his team needed to make a quick decision. So they moved a bulldozer from another job and used it to widen a firebreak. That likely helped prevent hundreds of homes from going up in flames.

A Massachusetts firefighter dressed as Buddy the Elf challenged dozens of unsuspecting Bostonians to a pillow fight around Faneuil Hall.

A Natick, Massachusetts firefighter took a break from battling blazes to spread some holiday cheer in a fun and silly way in Boston. Dressed as Buddy from the movie “Elf,” Brendan Edwards instigated dozens of pillow fights at Faneuil Hall. To be fair, the jolly firefighter gave his opponents a few seconds of notice before he armed them with a...

The suspect was taken into custody after a Swat team arrived at the scene.

When a woman went into cardiac arrest while riding her bike in D.C., an off-duty Prince George’s County EMT came to her rescue.

An Italian family of five was “reborn” after all three children buried in the rubble of their home by a 4.0-magnitude quake were pulled to safety Tuesday in a painstaking 16-hour rescue operation on the popular Mediterranean resort island of Ischia. The Toscano family’s happy ending brought cheers from the dozens of firefighters who worked through the night to extricate...

A group of firefighters will hold a breakfast fundraiser Wednesday to raise money for a rookie D.C. firefighter who was badly injured after he was struck by a firetruck on the scene of a blaze.

With all of the superhero movies showing up on the big screen, it’s nice to hear about some local heroes cleaning up our streets. Or in this case, cleaning up our lawns.