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Three firefighters were rushed to the hospital Tuesday night after they were hurt while battling a massive house fire on Blue Hills Avenue in Hartford, according to police. Police said some firefighters could have serious injuries but have not elaborated on their conditions.

For spring break this year, Becky and I decided to take the kids North. My sister lives in Niantic, CT and we hadn't seen my niece Isla (Eye-La) since her birth just a few short months ago. We love Connecticut and have visited a couple of times. We decided to throw in a visit to New York City as well.

Director Brendan Bellomo and cinematographer Greg Wilson were asked by Vision Research and Abel CineTech to shoot the first test footage with the new Phantom Flex4K Digital Cinema Camera. The camera was a little more than a week old and still in its alpha prototype stage when we got our hands on i

You should read the story. FDNY hasn't willingly opened its doors to felons. As a matter of fact, the city's notice to applicants still states that convicted felons "are not eligible for appointment to this position."

Paul Krause uploaded two videos of helmet camera footage from January 21, 2013. The Tunxis Hose Company No. 1 in Unionville, CT FD had two back to back garage fires and Paul recorded both of them. The second one is Engine 5 first due to a fully involved garage fire at 645 West Avon Road in Avon (more on that fire here).

I admit that when I first watched this I wanted to get on here and let it fly. Then I thought about it a minute. Why stoop to his level. What this guy needs is an education. He doesn't understand what they are doing and he is ungrateful. He needs to be educated on what we do, what those guys were doing, and why they were doing it.

We see some really bad stuff in our line of work. Luckily, the public is typically shielded from the raw gruesome details of many of the calls we go on. We are not. We cope. We formulate our own mechanisms for coping.

The firefighter who died in the line of duty in Easton, Connecticut has been identified as Lt. Russ Neary. The incident occurred around 7:45pm on Monday night as Hurricane Sandy hit landfall.

Firefighters busy on East Coast with Hurricane Sandy, Possible LODD in CT, Mashable on fake photos, Crane collapse in NYC, Facebook pages sharing photos and information.

A teenager in Connecticut was charged with making a false 911 call. The problem isn't just the prank call. The problem is that a fire truck crashed on the way to the call. What do you think? I agree that it is wrong to make fake 911 calls, but do you think it is his fault for the fire truck crashing? Should the punishment be more severe?