Fatal Incidents
The fatal incidents topic deals with a range of articles, news and exclusives surrounding the unfortunate side of a responders鈥� job.
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A busy roadway is hands-down the most dangerous environment where we routinely work
Hurricane Helene flooding forces patients to a hospital roof, wipes out a VFD and downs a tree, killing two firefighters
A fire broke out at Club Pulse in Kocani, reportedly ignited by a pyrotechnics display during a concert at the longtime venue, which was converted from a carpet warehouse
A fatal explosion at a Troy medical facility鈥檚 hyperbaric oxygen therapy chamber claimed the life of a five-year-old boy and injured his mother
The cockpit voice recorder on the medical transport plane that crashed killing seven, had likely been nonfunctional for years, according to a NTSB report
Authorities believe speed was a factor when a Tesla crashed into a house in Woodridge, killing two people
A burned e-bike was found in the Queens house along with propane tanks and home oxygen
A judge sentenced the driver to seven years after he pleaded guilty to the wrong-way crash that killed off-duty Independence Firefighter/Paramedic Harold 鈥淕ene鈥� Eddins
Mammoth Mountain Ski Patroller Claire Murphy was doing avalanche mitigation on Lincoln Mountain when snow broke loose
Nearly 75% of nonfatal private sector attacks in 2021 and 2022 were directed at healthcare and social assistance workers at a rate more than five times the national average
West York Borough Police Officer Andrew Duarte died in a shooting inside UPMC Memorial Hospital
Lt. Nelson Seto called 911 reporting breathing trouble, but EMTs left when he didn鈥檛 answer the door; hours later, he was found dead
Officials have removed most of the 26 vehicles involved in the I-80 tunnel crash that killed at least three people and seriously injured five
A man was found unresponsive and later pronounced dead after being stuck 25 feet up in a palm tree
Video shows the singer鈥檚 private jet skidding off the runway at Scottsdale Airport; the singer was not on the aircraft at the time of the crash
The Richlands firefighter/EMT was on his way home from paramedic class when he was involved in an MVC
A motorist passing another car on Highway 28 near Wenatchee struck a charter bus head-on
The crash injured two Hillsborough County Fire Rescue crew members and left the ambulance overturned following the impact at an intersection
The ambulance slid on the ice and struck the bystander who was directing them to the scene
What started as a routine transport for two EMTs turned into heartbreak when the medical jet carrying their young patient crashed just minutes after takeoff
Authorities said the shooter had been at work 鈥渇or some time鈥� before opening fire inside the cosmetics warehouse in New Albany
Dive teams worked in rough conditions on the Potomac River to raise several pieces of the American Airlines jet
The crime scene suffered extensive damage, complicating efforts to identify victims and determine the exact toll, Orebro police said
Prosecutors said the former Sioux City Fire Rescue paramedic failed to verify the medication before drawing it up and gave the patient rocuronium instead of ketamine
At least 22 people were injured when the Jet Rescue Air Ambulance plane crashed shortly after takeoff
Officials from the Oxford Center in Brighton said nothing like this has happened in over 15 years of providing hyperbaric oxygen therapy
Army Corps of Engineers Colonel Francis B. Pera said a 鈥渄ignified recovery鈥� of the victims takes precedence over all else
A child receiving treatment at Shriners Children鈥檚 Hospital, her mother, four Jet Rescue Air Ambulance crew members and a person on the ground were killed
The Jet Rescue Air Ambulance, carrying a child patient, passenger and four crew members, crashed shortly after takeoff
D.C. Fire Chief John Donnelly Sr. said the wreckage of the plane鈥檚 fuselage will probably have to be pulled from the water to get all the bodies
Investigators have recovered the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder of the American Airlines plane that collided with an Army helicopter at Ronald Reagan National Airport
The latest victim was one of six patients flown to Arizona when the explosion out Hawaii鈥檚 only burn care facility at capacity
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