The firefighter who found the body of a widow in her home in Kilkenny given evidence at the trial of a man accused of her murder.

A Mississippi firefighter who received the world's most extensive face transplant after a burning building collapsed on him has said he feels like "a normal guy" for the first time in 15 years.

USA: Firefighters put out a blaze at an office building in New Jersey — after waiting for 100,000 rounds of ammunition stored inside to explode.

A natural gas explosion has rocked a Seattle neighbourhood, sending nine firefighters to the hospital and reducing businesses to rubble.

A firefighter has seen off more than 20,000 hopefuls to clinch the role of Cadbury’s modern Milk Tray man by impressing judges with a line in thoughtful banter while performing a rescue lift.

A volunteer firefighter, badly burned in a 2001 blaze, has received the most extensive face transplant ever, covering his skull and much of his neck.

An off-duty firefighter has told how he made his way into a burning house after a suspected gas blast and blaze which killed two of his neighbours.

Understandable, really.

Rescuers have pulled out a firefighter trapped for 32 hours after responding to the massive explosions in Tianjin.

USA: Phoenix firefighters have rescued a man who became stuck after trying to re-enter a house through the chimney.

Firefighters from Meath and Wicklow have been chosen to represent Ireland at the Olympics of the fire-service world later this year.

Weighed down with all his gear, Alex O’Shea blazed a trail into the book of Guinness World Records, shaving a massive 58 minutes off the record for running a marathon in full firefighting apparel.

A firefighter fought back tears as he told an inquest of his desperate attempts to rescue two colleagues trapped in an inferno at a disused ink factory.