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PGFD/West Lanham Hills VFD Lt. Ryan Emmons leaves hospital after arm reattached. Injured in Beltway crash of pumper almost a month ago.
Lt. Emmons was injured on January 30th when the pumper he was riding in was hit by a tractor trailer.
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Arrival video: House fire in Calverton, MD. PGFD in action from 1991. Plus an apartment fire in Oxon Hill.
PGFD North Side with mutual aid from Montgomery County on a house fire and an apartment fire on Palmer Road…
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Busy day for PGFD: Audio from fatal Glenarden fire. Pictures from second house fire.
House fire in Springdale about 1.5 miles from deadly fire early this morning.
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Four pulled from Glenarden, MD house fire. PGFD says adult & 2 children dead, 1 child critical.
A woman and child who had escaped before firefighters arrived are in stable condition.
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Maryland’s PGFD announces staffing reorganization. Career firefighters removed from four fire stations & redeployed.
Branchville VFD held press conference a month ago critical of the plan that leaves its firehouse and three others staffed…
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PGFD Beltway crash update: West Lanham Hills VFD Chief John Alter disputes police account of how collision occurred. Says no U-turn at I-95/495 emergency turn-around.
Chief Alter says he wants record set straight. Also, updates condition on Lt. Ryan Emmons whose arm was reattached.
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UPDATED: PGFD/West Lanham Hills VFD Lt. Ryan Emmons went back into surgery Wednesday night after arm reattached. New details from surgeon & police after Beltway crash.
PGPD says preliminarily "we believe the tractor trailer was the favored driver" as pumper made u-turn leaving crash scene on…
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UPDATE: Four Prince George’s County, MD firefighters injured, one critically after Beltway crash. Tractor-trailer slams into West Lanham pumper returning from call.
Three other hurt in crash that also involves an SUV.
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UPDATED: Suspicious fire in Prince George’s County, MD leaves two dead. One jumped to death. Other dead in apartment.
Firefighters arrived to fire showing from top floor unit of four story garden-apartment.
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Retired PGFD Lt. Billy Mills teams up with ‘Lassie’ like black lab for rescue. Woman pulled from Bowie, MD house fire.
Doing a 360, retired lieutenant runs into dog who takes him to the trapped woman.
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