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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - A week after Kyle Brinker’s death, the KCFD fire chief speaks to Brinker’s character. The 33-year-old firefighter suffered a medical emergency during rescue training.
A 2023 DWI arrest became a Kansas City fire captain’s fourth case of driving while intoxicated since 2016, court records show ...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas City Fire Department has identified the 33-year-old firefighter-paramedic who died following a training exercise on Tuesday. KCFD Fire Chief Ross Grundyson says ...
More than half of calls the Kansas City, Missouri, Fire Department responds to are medical, but firefighters are not included in the first phase of the state's COVID-19 vaccine distribution plan.
On arrival, KCFD found the off-duty firefighter and the child who was breathing and had a pulse. 92-year-old woman dies in Overland Park after being hit by car in driveway ...
Then, firefighters can return to their stations to learn nuances for driving or other apparatus operations in their specific districts. KCFD is also working on a rollout of a career path manual.
The Kansas City Metropolitan Commission is stepping in to help the family of fallen KCFD firefighter Kyle Brinker. The organization just provided a $40,000 check to his family.
KCFD firefighter recovering after being hit by car KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A Kansas City, Missouri firefighter is recovering after he was hit by a car at the scene of a crash this past weekend.
The city sees the move as a way to save money. An employment rights attorney called it “a slap in the face to the many, many victims of discrimination at the fire department.” ...
Locke is one of more than 47 percent of KCFD firefighters who were ill or injured in 2016. That percentage is much higher than the 14 other cities it was compared to in the KC STAT data.
Off-duty Kansas City firefighter talks after saving child from near drowning at local pool. The KCFD firefighter was enjoying his day off when he heard a distressing call from his neighborhood pool.
Kansas City firefighters said they have been grabbed in sexually inappropriate ways and subjected to racial slurs in the city’s fire stations, according to a Kansas City Council report released ...