Operation Save-A-Life partners the SFM with local districts and fire departments to provide free smoke alarm installations for families in need of assistance accessing the critical emergency-alert …
Prepare to laugh, cry, cheer and fume with a romp back through the top stories of 2021 through quotes from newsmakers. JANUARY “It is wonderful. This is the greatest thing that could happen.” — Sara …
The amount o time volunteer firefighters donate save municipalities nearly $50 billion each year, according to the National Fire Council. In Strasburg, the volunteer firefighter s …
Much of the San Diego region is already in the red on Cal Fire’s wildfire hazard maps, which trigger requirements for builders and residents to lower the risk.
Governor John Bel Edwards announced flags can be flown at half-mast to honor a Bossier City firefighter who died on duty.
A fire that engulfed a city bus converted into a traveling home in Veyo has left a family of six homeless and the father and two children in critical condition. According to family members, the father …
John Cheatham was born into slavery in Missouri, but in the late 1800s broke racial barriers in Minnesota’s largest fire department.
I tell people I get to travel the world every year and never leave home.” — Folkmoot volunteer Vivian Poppas on why she loves the international summer festival, which was back following a hiatus in …
Dight Avenue, a good street with a bad name, is about to get a better one. Cheatham was born enslaved in 1855. Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation just before his 8th birthday, and …
Dec. 24, 2021, more than two dozen Rochester firefighters and community members attended the brief ceremony at the Silver Lake Firefighters Memorial in honor of the men and those who had lost their …