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John Leonard Orr (born April 26, 1949) [1] is an American convicted serial arsonist, mass murderer and former firefighter.A fire captain and arson investigator in Glendale, California, Orr was convicted of serial arson and four counts of murder; [2] he is believed to have set nearly 2,000 fires in a thirty-year arson spree, most of them between 1984 and 1991, making him the most prolific ...
Orio Joseph Palmer (March 2, 1956 – September 11, 2001) was a Battalion Chief of the New York City Fire Department who died while rescuing civilians trapped inside the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
Bilge Ebiri of Village Voice wrote, "Only the Brave is a visually splendid, spellbinding, and surreal movie that also happens to be an emotionally shattering, over-the-top ugly-cry for the ages." [23] Todd McCarthy of The Hollywood Reporter called the film "an engaging account of a tragic real-life story." [24]
The bulk of training Olivas references took place about 11 years ago south of Chicago in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, at the Illinois Fire Service Institute, Eigenberg explains, where they mimicked ...
Saluda volunteer firefighters Chad Satcher and Landon Bodie died responding to a structure fire on Beulah Road when their vehicle was hit by a tree as Hurricane Helene tore through South Carolina ...
For some who fought, the memories of their sacrifices have since become tempered by the recent deterioration of security in Iraq and Afghanistan. “We did it all for nothing,” said Darren Doss, 25, a former Marine who fought in Marjah, Afghanistan, and lost friends in battle. In both wars, context made it tricky to deal with moral challenges.
Below is a list of the deadliest firefighter disasters in the United States, in which more than five firefighters died. "Firefighter" is defined as a professional trained to fight fires. Hence the 1933 Griffith Park fire is excluded, as it killed 29 untrained civilians.
A community radio presenter who lost the ability to project his voice for four years due to a brain tumour has returned to the airwaves. Joshua Donlon, of Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, was diagnosed ...