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JFRD Takes Part In Helicopter Crash Response Exercise

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Jacksonville, FL – A midair collision emergency message was broadcast today around the Cecil Field airport. This is something that anyone in the aviation or first responder business dread to hear. Luckily this was just a training event.
A helicopter crash response exercise was conducted at Cecil Field in the morning hours of June 2nd, 2010. [...]

June 2nd, 2010 | Posted in Training News | Read More »

Firefighters Participate In Crash Drill

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St. Augustine, FL – Firefighters from the St. Johns County Fire Rescue, St. Augustine Fire Department, SA Airport Fire and the St. Johns Sheriffs Officer responded to the St. Augustine Airport after a barrage of tones  filled the radio waves declaring a downed aircraft with 42 souls on board at the airport.The call was followed [...]

June 4th, 2010 | Posted in Training News | Read More »

Send Us Your Tips And Information

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St. Augustine, FL – In an effort to bring you, the readers, more information, more news and more images from the fire service, we are asking for your help.
Send us your tips and information to help us bring you the full story. If you hear about an incident in the NE Florida area, have an [...]

June 6th, 2010 | Posted in From The Editors Desk | Read More »

Clay County Fire Fighters Respond To Structure Fire

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Green Cove Springs, FL – Shortly after 8:00 pm on Sunday, fire fighters from Clay County Fire Rescue where called to a home in the 1000 block of Bonaventure Ave for a reported residential structure fire.
Fire fighters arrived to find heavy smoke and fire issuing from the rear of the structure. Fire fighters knocked the [...]

June 6th, 2010 | Posted in Featured News | Read More »

US 1 Accident Slows Traffic Near Shores Blvd.

US 1 Accident Slows Traffic Near Shores Blvd.

St. Augustine, FL – At least one female was transported to Flagler Hospital after an accident on US 1 near Shores Blvd. shortly before 1:00pm on Monday.

Fire fighters from St. Johns County Fire Rescue along with St. Johns Sheriffs Officers and the Florida Highway Patrol responder to the scene. Several people stood around the car [...]

June 7th, 2010 | Posted in Featured News | Read More »

Early Morning Crash Sends Three To Jax By Air

Early Morning Crash Sends Three To Jax By Air

June 8th, 2010 | Posted in News Briefs | Read More »

Fire Service News Visits JFRD Station 16

Fire Service News Visits JFRD Station 16

Chris Dilley for Fire Service NewsFire Service News correspondents were offered the opportunity to take some photographs of the equipment that protects Jacksonville International Airport today.
JFRD Station 16 provides aircraft crash/rescue response to the airport. In addition to the crash/rescue mission, station 16 firefighters also provide the emergency response to the structures on the airport property and [...]

June 13th, 2010 | Posted in Featured Fire Departments | Read More »

3 SJC Employees Injured In Afternoon Hit And Run

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St. Augustine, FL – Three St. Johns County employees where injured this afternoon while north on US 1 when a Palm Coast man veered off the road and struck them. Robert Jolley, Daniel Phillips, and Derek Tillman where riding north with a fourth man in the bike lane along US 1 when a black PT [...]

June 14th, 2010 | Posted in Florida | Read More »

Vehicle Accident Ignites Woods Fire

A burned out truck sits in the woods off St. Marks Pond Blvd. after it crashed into the trees and started a fire that burned 4 acres.

A burned out truck sits in the woods off St. Marks Pond Blvd. after it crashed into the trees and started a fire that burned 4 acres.
St. Augustine, FL – What started as a single vehicle accident on the wooded roadside of St. Marks Pond Blvd. Tuesday June 15th, 2010, ended in a [...]

June 15th, 2010 | Posted in Featured News | Read More »

Single Vehicle Rollover Injures One

Fire fighters prepare the driver of a late model Mustang that rolled over on SR204, for transport to Flagler Hospital.

Fire fighters prepare the driver of a late model Mustang that rolled over on SR204, for transport to Flagler Hospital.
Hastings, Fl – Shorty before 1:00pm on Thursday, June 17th 2010, fire fighters from St. Johns County Fire Rescue responded to a car accident on State Road 204 and Kersey Road. Reports from passerby’s said the [...]

June 17th, 2010 | Posted in Featured News | Read More »

SJCFR Through My Lens

June 19th, 2010 | Posted in Videos | Read More »

New Digs and Layout

Right about now you are seeing the front page of the site and wondering what happened. Well as is normally around here, a security upgrade this morning took the site down and crashed the theme we used for Fire Service News. Despite our best efforts, we were not able to recover the theme and had [...]

June 19th, 2010 | Posted in From The Editors Desk | Read More »

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  • KarenA: Thanks to the quick and competent work of rescue personnel, all 5 of the victims in this horrific crash lived...
  • Stephen Walsj: The last worker rescued died Friday night of his injuries. Two Firefighters were also injured.
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