Funding & Staffing

Below are just some of the videos that were recommended by the FB Brothers. I will add that this article was a quick idea I had after all of the great examples shared...and then I sat down and watched all of the videos, one by one. I was holding it together until the Pipes started playing on the Kyle Wilson Tribute video...then I lost it.

Best of the Rest - FDIC Stair Climb, Fire Videos, Bullies, FNG, Fitness, MN8, NFE, and Much More!

Best of the Rest - Triple Fatal in Kalamazoo, Two Double LODD's, Renegade's Coin, Bouncing Back, Florida Rescue, and much more!

One of two things are failing here. If it isn't one, it is the other. However, it could be both. There is no other reason for the poor turnout.

The Gore VFD needs help. They need a tanker. You can help by sharing on Facebook and Twitter. Either share this post, or share the original post on VAFireNews.com that already has 226+ "likes" on Facebook! Bloggers can help by posting this on their blogs too!

Check out this video about a brand new technology being developed by Tanagram Inc. They are developing Headmounted display (HMD) Augmented Reality (AR) technology. Yeah, I know...what the hell does that mean? Watch the video!

If you think you got some good reason for not wearing this or for not doing things the right way write it down. Because I need to read that to your widow. Cause I'm not going to know what to say. You say it for me. - Chicago Chief of Training Peter VanDorpe

The beautiful thing about this project is that any department can use it as a recruitment tool. It won't matter that the video has Wyoming Fire & EMS in it, the message is the same. As a matter of fact, Wyoming firefighters encourage other departments to use it.

A woman's house burned in South Fulton while firefighters watched from a distance. The firefighters did not put out the fire because the woman had not paid the $75 fire tax. South Fulton has a well disciplined and well known rule NOT to suppress fires on non paying residents of Obion County. Last year, when a similar story went viral, Dave Statter said that the firefighters should have put out the fire.

BURN is an action-packed and inspiring documentary about Detroit, told through the eyes of the men and women of the Detroit Fire Department, who are charged with saving a city that many have written off as dead. It’s a story that resonates in many American cities, as heroic first responders soldier on in the face of severe budget cuts.