Kentland VFD explains how two fire trucks burned to a crisp

However, mere moments later, the steadily advancing flame front reached the front of Company 28’s Engine and it soon met the same fate as Rescue Squad 33. A short time later, a water supply for the rear was reestablished and the Rescue Squad crew worked with others to extinguish the flames. In total the fire went to three alarms before being brought under control.

Maryland Police Beat: Troopers rushed to scene close to Trooper 5 hangar and saved life of child

When they arrived, emergency medical technicians from the Wiley Ford Volunteer Fire Department were on the scene. The State Police flight paramedics were able to immediately begin advanced life support care for the child. They could tell he was seriously ill and time was of the essence, so the flight paramedics transported the child to the Western Maryland Regional Medical Center, less than ten minutes away, while continuing to provide advanced life support care.

Prince Georges Police Beat: Top Cops for January 2015 Honored as Life Savers and Crime Fighters

On January 24, 2015, Police Officers Tahicia McCaskill and Oved Canas were called to Aitcheson Road in Beltsville for the report of a suicidal woman. The woman was bleeding profusely from a self-inflicted wound. Given the amount of blood loss, the officers knew immediate action was needed to save her life. The officers quickly grabbed their department-issued trauma kit from a cruiser and applied a tourniquet. They then talked with the woman to try to prevent her from going into shock. Arriving EMS units confirmed that the officers’ actions saved the woman’s life.

Murder USA: Four armed killers loose in Huntington area of Fairfax not deemed “a threat to public safety” says police

HUNTINGTON, VA. — Its not real clear what it takes for Fairfax Police to figure out what is a threat to public safety if four black guys with a gun who just popped a round or two into a guy and killed him DEAD is not a threat to public safety. But that is modern society of the lawless and criminals marauding over the countryside at will.

Medic Francis C. Hammond killed while saving fellow Marines in Korean War; awarded Medal of Honor

As a relief unit showed up, Hammond’s division was ordered to pull back. Hammond refused. According to the Virginia War Memorial’s website, “[he] did not want to leave his men, so he stayed behind to help evacuate the wounded, refusing care for himself. While assisting the units relieving them, [Hammond] was mortally wounded by enemy mortar fire.”

Jersey chopper pilot takes controlled dip into Chesapeake at Taylors Island; he and passenger walk to shore

(TAYLORS ISLAND, MD) – According to the Maryland State Police, Maryland state troopers on the scene of a crash of a chopper from New Jersey are reporting there were no injuries to the two people on board a private helicopter that landed in the water just off the Dorchester County shore late this afternoon.

Charges loom against Takoma Park Police Officer Travis Ala in death of Raymond Badders on Rt. 50; two more died from injuries

According to the preliminary investigation, Ala was eastbound on Rt. 50 in lane three and apparently did not observe the stopped traffic in time to stop. Evidence indicates Ala swerved to the right and struck the rear of the Toyota. The force of the crash caused the Nissan to overturn and pushed the Toyota into the Jeep Cherokee that was ahead of it.

Dover Police Beat: Brittany Paige killed when she ran out into traffic without looking each way

Dover Police Beat: Brittany Paige killed when she ran out into traffic without looking each way – Numerous witnesses observed the victim looking at her cell phone with ear buds in her ears as she walked through the stopped traffic, then began to jog across the northbound lanes without looking for oncoming traffic.