More than 70 firefighter candidates navigated the physical agility test ...more

June 23, 2009

The gleaming 1973 fire engine caught 5-year-old Baylor Collins' attention, especially the ladders along the top. He plays with a miniature version in his house, he said, but lost the ladders. ...more

November 26, 2008

The gleaming 1973 fire engine caught 5-year-old Baylor Collins' attention, especially the ladders along the top. He plays with a miniature version in his house, he said, but lost the ladders. ...more

November 26, 2008

Something in Billy-Bob's Big Bug Basher "Specil" Mix was causing firefighters to drop like flies. ...more

November 7, 2008

Water is typically a firefighter's best friend. But drop a 180-pound man wearing 60 pounds of bunker gear into a swimming pool and you've got problems. Add the fact that the firefighter is probably stumbling blind through black smoke when his solid footing gives way and the problems multiply. ...more

August 20, 2008

Water is typically a firefighter's best friend. ...more

August 20, 2008

Firefighter Patrick Conrey put on 75 pounds of gear on Saturday and ran in Cincinnati's annual Flying Pig Marathon. ...more

May 5, 2008

Firefighters hit the stairs of Bank of America to prepare for Climb Tampa, an American Lung Association fundraiser. ...more

February 13, 2008

AVON PARK — The white miniature school bus started the day intact, but after about 25 firefighters finished their training exercise, only pieces remained. In about 30 pounds of bunker gear, firefighters scurried around the bus in the parking lot of the Florida State Firemen's Association. The extreme extrication class at the Great Florida Fire School was given a scenario: A mini-bus carrying orange pickers to the groves had hit a light pole, and two victims were trapped under the seats. Instructors stood nearby taking notes and correcting techniques as firefighters used hydraulic tools to dismantle the bus. ...more

November 9, 2007