Here’s a great story coming out of Canada. It is proof positive that the heart of firefighters beams with a goodness that is unsurpassed. Brandon Hrycyk-Last, a 20-year old man with spina bifida, passed away this week. Brandon had been a huge fan of firefighters and started visiting the Walkerville Firestation when he was 11. [...]
Axed Albert Arroyo Argues on the Airwaves
Arroyo pleads his case on the airwaves today by using his buddy Jimmy Myers’ segment from Boston’s WTKK Talk Radio. Myers admits they’re long time friends and commenses to lob floaters right down the middle for Arroyo to slam out of the park (that is, figuratively, since Arroyo is “disabled”…)
Some of the things Arroyo said [...]
Firefighter is Hero in Spanish Air Disaster
After the Spanair swerved off the runway and slammed into a wooded area, the plane burst into flames and an unimaginable scenario developed. The handful of firefighters who arrived were severely outnumbered and outmanned by the growing flames and the number of dead and wounded.
Amelia Filloy, 41, told arriving firefighter Francisco Martinez to go in [...]
Boston Board reBuffs Buff Bluffer’s Bid for Reinstatement
Boston’s most infamous bodybuilding bamboozler has lost his bid to be reinstated by Boston Fire officials. This news comes after Albert Arroyo submitted supporting documentation to “prove” that his “injury” was career ending.
Fire Commissioner Roderick Fraser and two other fire officials reviewed the documentation and decided that it did not contain enough information to warrant [...]
HUGE Fire with Collapse in Shark River Hills, NJ
It started at 10:45pm on the night of August 18th with a call for a brush fire. As the first firefighters burst through the doors to our station, the call was upgraded to a fully involved structure fire. Shark River Hill’s company got to the call first and started in on the house with a [...]
Number of Volunteers Down, Women FF Up
So, back in the mid-1970’s, a study showed that there were approximately 300,000 active volunteer firefighters in 3,000 state fire departments. By the mid 1990’s, that number dropped to 70,000 in 2,500 departments.
But from what I see coming through the doors to calls, that number is definitely well below 70,000 these days. You can’t argue [...]
Buff Boston Firefighter’s Pension REJECTED
Albert Arroyo’s dreams of freeloading have been denied – and with it, dissipated his dreams of abusing steroids on taxpayer’s money. Apparently, the Boston Retirement Board rejected the disability pension saying that the application was incomplete. I can only imagine that Arroyo’s not happy and instead of sporting a buff bod, is now showing a [...]
Nine Firefighters Missing – Presumed Dead
The Tuesday night crash of a Sikorsky S-61 helicopter has left four hospitalized and nine missing. Of the fours who sustained injuries from the crash, three were contract firefighters and one was the pilot of the chopper.
The nine missing are firefighters who were picked up from a remote area of northern California (Shasta-Trinity National [...]
Chauffeur Nearly Flips a Fire Truck
I’ve often wondered if flipping a fire truck were possible. And the thought has always been yes – but… Well, I don’t know where this is, but this guy nearly did it going to a fire.
Canadian Firefighter Sentenced for Arson
A former firefighter with the Oliver, British Columbia, fire department has been sentenced to two years’ house arrest and two years probation for setting brush fires in 2003 during the province’s worst fire season in history. Approximately 250 homes were burned during that season and five of which were started by Mike Hagel, the ex-firefighter [...]
