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Officials have announced when they plan on laying a veteran North Haven firefighter to rest. 46-year-old firefighter Matthias Wirtz died Monday battling a fire at a home on Quinnipiac Avenue. North Haven Fire Chief Paul Januszewski said that Wirtz’s wake will happen Monday at the North Haven Funeral Home on Washington Avenue from 3 to 7 p.m. Wirtz will be…

One New Britain fire official has been fired and seven other firefighters have been disciplined following an investigation into drug use at firehouses around the Connecticut city, the mayor said. The investigation began after the apparent drug-related death of a 36-year-old off-duty firefighter in his home in January. The results of toxicology tests are pending, but evidence obtained during the…

The New Hartford Fire Department is honoring a Burlington firefighter who died after suffering a medical emergency at a fire scene.

Fire officials in Portland, Ore., released footage on Wednesday showing the moment several businesses combusted in what they call a “smoke explosion.”

Firefighter Colin McFadden died of leukemia days after collapsing at a fire in New Hartford.

California’s largest utility company has been blamed for half of the state’s most destructive fires since 2015. Now it has a plan to reduce the risk of sparks.

A broader group of first responders and frontline workers may soon be able to get workers’ compensation coverage for post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD.

Crews have recovered the body of a Detroit firefighter who vanished in the Detroit River while helping save some girls from drowning

 “I think without forensic genealogy everyone would agree that the case probably would have went unsolved,” said Kristin Sasinouski, deputy director of Forensic Biology & DNA at the Division of Scientific Services. For nearly two decades, forensic scientists at the state’s crime lab have been trying to help police identify the person responsible for a series of rapes that...

An Iowa firefighter whose family has been devastated by the coronavirus says he wants people to know how easily the virus can spread.

NBC Connecticut News Anchor Kevin Nathan shows us what it’s like to be a firefighter.

In what could be the first of its kind state law addressing PFAS in Connecticut, members of the Environment Committee learned more Friday about proposed legislation that would ban Connecticut fire departments from using firefighting foam containing PFAS for any training purposes. “It’s a very important resource to help extinguish dangerous fires, we know that there are safer substitutes...

Lawmakers are considering a bill that would prohibit the use of firefighting foam with PFAS in the training of firefighters.

Crews battling Australia’s wildfires said Sunday that they have been able to turn from defense to offense for the first time in weeks thanks to a break in the weather.

The wildfire was behaving erratically last week, and Doug Schutz and his team needed to make a quick decision. So they moved a bulldozer from another job and used it to widen a firebreak. That likely helped prevent hundreds of homes from going up in flames.

A Massachusetts firefighter dressed as Buddy the Elf challenged dozens of unsuspecting Bostonians to a pillow fight around Faneuil Hall.

A Natick, Massachusetts firefighter took a break from battling blazes to spread some holiday cheer in a fun and silly way in Boston. Dressed as Buddy from the movie “Elf,” Brendan Edwards instigated dozens of pillow fights at Faneuil Hall. To be fair, the jolly firefighter gave his opponents a few seconds of notice before he armed them with a...

The suspect was taken into custody after a Swat team arrived at the scene.

Eighty percent of Connecticut firefighters have had stressful experiences on duty causing lingering or unresolved emotional health issues, according to an exclusive NBC Connecticut Troubleshooters investigation. Eighty percent also said there’s a stigma about getting help, but one state senator has a plan to make it easier.