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Firefighter in Canada revived during restaurant fire: “A 32-year-old volunteer firefighter was resuscitated Wednesday morning after severe smoke inhalation from a restaurant fire in Meaford, Ont., left him fighting for his life.” Click here for more on this story from Canada.com.

Working for free helps get 6 firefighters their jobs back: An interesting story from Sterling, Illinois. Six firefighters who were laid off will get there jobs back. To do so the union had to agree to some concessions. One of those is that every firefighter will work five-hours without pay each pay period. During those five hours the firefighters will only be available in the station for emergency calls, but not other work. Read the details.

What were they thinking?: That’s the first question that comes to mind when reading Firegeezer’s story about a training exercise in Germany that injured nine children and two adults. The idea was to teach people how to react in smoke, using a vacant apartment building. Somehow an explosion occurred. Bill gives us some idea how that may have happened. Check out the story.

No criminal charges in Atlantic City sex scandal: A prosecutor has declined to file criminal charges after allegations were made about teenaged girls involved in sexual activity with firefighters from Atlantic City’s Station 2. Results of internal investigations have not yet been released in an incident that has sparked much controversy. Read the latest.

Double the fun: Want to learn more about how the DC Fire & EMS Department operates? We have two helmet-cam videos from the same house fire. One was worn by a firefighter on the first-due engine company and the second was worn by the tillerman of the first-due truck. Click here.

WTC steel: Billy Goldfeder ran this interesting item on The Secret List –

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is accepting requests from organizations that would like to request a piece of World Trade Center steel. The steel was recovered from the World Trade Center site after September 11, 2001 and secured at JFK Airport by The Port Authority of NY and NJ until now.

Click here to read all of the details.

Two dead in fire no one noticed: Smoke inhalation apparently killed a couple in their Smith County, Texas home. No one spotted the fire which had burned itself out. Read the story.