That’s why Fire Chief Matt Bernard said his department aims to update its firefighter turnout gear every five years. This included recently spending $146,248 toward that budgeted effort ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — The Grand Rapids Fire Department responded to two separate fires caused by alternative heating solutions Tuesday night. The first fire occurred at 5:52 p.m. on Veto Street ...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG ... increasing staffing levels at the city’s fire marshal’s office, and that each firefighter get a second set of gear. Fire Chief Smith believes these recommendations ...

Twenty days after Wichmann graduated from Iowa City High School, she went on a ride-along at Station Five in Cedar Rapids. After obtaining her EMS and fire science ... Alexander said the department is ...

providing flotation, insulation, and other special features. Every year, each member of the Cedar Rapids Fire Department suits up and jumps in. They work on self-rescue and how to assist conscious ...

"Well it's just we don't have gear," Mark Swift said, the Marengo Fire Departments' Treasurer. "You have to have gear when you go into something that's on fire, people get hurt." It was all hands ...

Fire Department donated turnout gear. N.Y. EMS services sending 3 ambulances to Ukraine ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Just weeks after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, two EMS agencies in Monroe County ...

That’s according to the Cedar Rapids Fire Department. Assistant Fire Chief ... that gave way and collapsed on him. Protective gear prevented him from suffering serious injury.

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KWWL) -- It's a training the Cedar Rapids Fire Department does every year ... also very different from their fire protective gear. They say it does not take long for the ...

The 56-year-old Navy veteran, who started with Rochester in 1997 following a stint in Cedar Rapids ... a different turnout gear that's better? Are there different ways to fight fire that keeps ...

Coon Rapids veterans donated thousands of dollars to the Fire Department to help preserve protective gear Dec. 15. The Coon Rapids VFW donated $15,500 to the Coon Rapids Fire Department for turnout ...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — The Cedar Rapids Fire Department says they are postponing ... more about the fire service got fitted to their gear. From the boots to the helmet, everything needed to ...