PHOTO: Emergency crews on the upper Bay will soon be able to respond to those tricky shallow-water rescues more easily and safely.
The all-volunteer Susquehanna Hose Company (SHCo) in Havre de Grace just announced they’re getting a state-of-the-art airboat. It will be the department’s first vessel of this kind and the only airboat in service in the area. - PUB DATE: 10/26/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Chesapeake Bay Magazine
VIDEO: A dramatic two-alarm fire erupted Monday afternoon at a commercial building in Monrovia, prompting a quick response from at least two local fire departments.
The blaze, fueled by stacks of pallets, was reported about 5 p.m. at a structure in the 800 block of East Huntington Drive.
Firefighters arrived at the scene to find flames shooting through the roof. - PUB DATE: 10/25/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KABC-TV ABC 7 Los Angeles
VIDEO: At just 18 years old, Jah’ere Robinson became a hero in the same Palm Beach County neighborhood where a stray bullet injured him as he took out the garbage.
Jah’ere spent six months in the hospital and months recovering. Two years after surviving the shooting, a neighbor credited him for acting quickly during an apartment building fire. - PUB DATE: 10/25/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WPLG-TV ABC 10 Miami
Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott along with the Baltimore City Fire Department, elected officials launched its Unsafe Vacant Marking Initiative Monday.
The initiative will help first responders identify unsafe vacant homes, buildings, or structures when determining the structural integrity before entering by noting the secured 12x12 inch red square reflective signs on properties considered unsafe for anyone to enter. - PUB DATE: 10/25/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WBFF-TV FOX/MyNetworkTV 45 Baltimore
VIDEO: A daring rescue off a cliff at Peninsula State Park in Door County this weekend saved a woman’s life.
She was in stable condition Monday after the difficult task of getting her safely off the cliff.
Multiple agencies responded to make this rescue mission a success.
Video shared by the Gibraltar Fire Department is just a glimpse of the treacherous rescue at the park in Door County after a 32-year-old woman fell from a parking lot on top of Eagle Bluff, landing on a ledge about 50 feet below. - PUB DATE: 10/25/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WBAY-TV ABC 2 Green Bay
One City of Erie fire department is celebrating Halloween with a carved pumpkin that weighs more than 1,000 pounds.
It’s the second time an Erie firefighter has grown a pumpkin for the community to enjoy. Erie Fireman John Stewart grew a pumpkin that weighs over 1,000 pounds.
The pumpkin sits outside Firehouse 13 on East 28th Street. - PUB DATE: 10/25/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: YourErie.com
VIDEO: McKinney firefighters are investigating the cause of a large fire in Downtown on Sunday night.
According to officials, the fire began just after midnight on North McDonald Street.
Firefighters initially began fighting the blaze at a church on Wilcox. Several nearby homes were evacuated before the fire spread to a nearby house. - PUB DATE: 10/24/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KXAS-TV NBC 5 Fort Worth
VIDEO: After months of training, Lexington Firefighter class number 70 is ready to serve the city.
This class has a unique story.
For the first time in the department’s 151 years of service, a female recruit will follow in her father’s footsteps and become a Lexington Firefighter.
In most cases, it’s the son who follows in his father’s firefighter boots. - PUB DATE: 10/24/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WKYT-TV CBS/CW 27 Lexington
Remington Embry, who graduated from Surry Community College’s first offering of the Firefighter Career & College Promise program, was recently hired as a full-time firefighter with Central Surry Volunteer Fire Department in Dobson.
The statewide Career & College Promise (CCP) program gives juniors and seniors the opportunity to earn college credentials, tuition-free, while they are still in high school. - PUB DATE: 10/24/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Mount Airy News
VIDEO: Dozens of people gathered in Hastings Sunday afternoon to learn about a local Black church that was set on fire over a century ago.
Nobody was ever charged in connection with the fire.
The Hastings community came to First Presbyterian Church to remember history that happened blocks away.
Building Remembrance for Reconciliation, nonprofit, organized the event called “Breaking the Silence: Remembering Brown’s Chapel AME. - PUB DATE: 10/24/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KSTP-TV ABC 6 St. Paul
In late October 1947, residents of this small town on the Blue Hill Peninsula watched as ominous gray smoke rose high into the skies over Mount Desert Island. The summer had been bone dry—the state had only received about half its normal precipitation since the end of June—and a single careless spark might ignite a conflagration closer to home. - PUB DATE: 10/24/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Penobscot Bay Press
A stolen U-Haul went up in flames after a driver led police on a miles-long chase in west Houston early Wednesday morning, according to the Houston Police Department.
This happened on the Westpark Tollway service road at Dairy Ashford. Houston Transtar cameras caught the end of the chase where the U-Haul truck caught fire. - PUB DATE: 10/21/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KHOU-TV CBS 11 Houston
Fire departments throughout Wisconsin will soon have the chance to safely dispose of firefighting foam containing toxic "forever chemicals" free of charge.
The Department of Natural Resources announced the beginning of its foam collection program, which received $1 million in funding from the current state budget. - PUB DATE: 10/21/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Wausau Daily Herald - Metered Site
VIDEO: A northern Kentucky firefighter is recovering after a fellow firefighter stepped up to donate when he needed desperately needed a kidney.
It started when Newport firefighter Bob Hug had been struggling with kidney disease and was in desperate need of a kidney transplant for well over a year. He had been on dialysis for six months and through many ups and downs with possible donors and matches, but none had worked out. - PUB DATE: 10/21/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WLWT-TV NBC 5 Cincinnati
Next week marks the 10th anniversary of Superstorm Sandy. During the height of the storm, one neighborhood in Greenwich was hit by a massive fire.
News 12 Connecticut takes a look at how fire crews put out the fire in the midst of the storm. - PUB DATE: 10/21/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: News 12 Connecticut
“Happiness is a warm puppy.”
That sentiment expressed by cartoonist Charles M. Schulz is just as true today as it was on April 25, 1960, when it first appeared in the comic strip “Peanuts.”
And the firefighters, paramedics and reservists who work at the Boulder City Fire Department would be among the first to agree. - PUB DATE: 10/21/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Boulder City Review
PHOTOS: A large commercial fire is burning southeast of Chickasha.
McIntyre Law Chopper4 was over the structure early Wednesday afternoon.
Pilot Mason Dunn says flames are shooting as high as 200 feet into the air. He also reports the blaze is burning very hot and is catching other items outside the building on fire. - PUB DATE: 10/20/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KFOR-TV NBC 4 Oklahoma City
After a three year hiring freeze, the Madison Fire Department is accepting applications for full-time firefighters and EMTs, no longer requiring applicants to have U.S. Citizenship.
According to a news release by the City of Madison Fire Department, "in spirit of inclusion and accessibility," this year's process will incorporate new approaches throughout the hiring process to minimize barriers that previously limited people from applying, like time constraints, and also adapting to a "changing economic and technological landscape since the Covid-19 pandemic. - PUB DATE: 10/20/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Madison.com
The Mansfield Fire Department posted an educational video last week to its website that teaches youths how to react in fire emergencies.
In honor of fire prevention week, Mansfield firefighter David Kepleskey created a rap song and video in his firehouse featuring fellow firefighters Rick Landry, Jared Morse and Captain Will Cornell. - PUB DATE: 10/20/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Daily Campus
Ten years ago Wednesday, Big Tex burned.
And there was no saving him.
A reported electrical fire sent the State Fair of Texas icon up in flames, nearly incinerating him into a heap of ashes. Only a fried skeleton of the famed cowboy and his waving hands were left in the end.
And if you don't think Big Tex means a lot to some people, just go back and look at our coverage from the day it happened. - PUB DATE: 10/20/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WFAA-TV ABC 8 Dallas
