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“Get with Ladder 21, if you need to be in the bucket, put your eyes on whatever you need to see, determine if there’s a hazard where their apparatus is in position,” a chief advises.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A 20-year veteran of the Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department has died, the agency said in a release Saturday. Engineer Heath J. O’Shea was 44. O’Shea was assigned to ...
Captain Eric Prosswimmer with JFRD has been on the scene nearly non-stop since the blaze began Sunday night. Though, he said he did finally manage to get some sleep Monday night. According to JFRD ...
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The Jacksonville Sheriff's Office is responding to a reported crash involving a Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department ladder truck at N. Main Street and Tallulah Avenue. A ...
Five firefighters with Ladder 30 talked about the night their training was put into action saving a man who drove off the Dames Point Bridge.
Firefighters responded Monday to a fire at an apartment building in the San Jose area that was hit by lightning earlier this month, the Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department said.