71. Poor training and outdated or malfunctioning equipment has threatened the lives and safety of volunteer firefighters statewide, state records showed. 72. Sosa said six people died, while Emilio Najera, spokesman for the volunteer firefighters, said four people were taken to hospitals with serious injuries. 73. She stayed there for a half-hour until volunteer firefighters rescued her. 74. Stone, who had been a volunteer firefighter, said he then drove back to the building and saw more smoke and flames shooting out of the vent. 75. The department has formed a special unit that includes officers who are volunteer firefighters. 76. The injured volunteer firefighter was hospitalized in serious condition. 77. The other injured men, both flown to a burn center in Sioux Falls, were a school janitor and a volunteer firefighter, he said. 78. The program would be modeled after volunteer firefighter programs, which provide trained, equipped firefighters. 79. Three volunteer firefighters were charged this month in arson fires that destroyed black churches in South Carolina, Texas and Alabama. 80. Tom Brusegaard, a Gilby farmer and volunteer firefighter, said many basements were flooded by the storm. |