Douglas G. “Bo” Taylor, age 52, of Remington, the former chief of the Remington Volunteer Fire and Rescue Department (RVFD), was sentenced today to 24 months’ incarceration, to be followed by a term of three years of supervised releas…
Volunteer fire departments all across the U.S. could find themselves out of money and unable to operate unless Congress or the Obama Administration exempts them from the Affordable Care Act.
‘I thought the kinks were worked out of Obamacare at the fir…
ROCKY MOUNT — Franklin County Circuit Judge William Alexander ordered during a court hearing Friday that two new trials be held tied to an emotional lawsuit involving the circumstances that led to the deaths of two volunteer firefighters in Rocky Moun…
Dec. 10–A fire broke out in an elevator shaft of a Radford University dormitory Monday afternoon, but school officials said the blaze was quickly contained and no one was injured.
Update on Jack Slagle…
A Virginia State Trooper and two Bath County (VA) FF’s were hospitalized last night when the trooper’s cruiser hit the apparatus. 1 FF remains in serious condition-the Trooper and the…
Two out-of-state emergency contractors aided Salem officials Tuesday to quell a silo fire that had been smoldering since last week. Salem Fire-EMS crews were initially called to Salem Frame Co.…
COURTLAND—After working all night to put out the fire, emergency crews are working to prevent extension and rekindles in the Hancock Peanut Company warehouse, said Major Gene Drewery, spokesperson for…
It was opening day last Saturday for Chesterfield Historical Society of VA’s newest exhibit “Firefighting in Chesterfield County: the Original Thirteen Departments.” Inspired by author David Creasy’s book “Chesterfield Fire…
Katherine Parker Chinault, 89, of Tappahannock died Thursday, April 19, 2012.
She was the preceded in death by her husband, Jesse Chinault in 1994 and her sister, Emma Mae Thompson.