An SUV rolled over onto a firefighter who was trying to rescue the driver and his son after a crash in New York City.
The initial collision happened Sunday afternoon on 11th Avenue at West 42nd Street in Manhattan.
The two-vehicle crash involved a BMW SUV and a Volvo sedan.
Randi and Matthew Rahn said they were stopped at a red light in their Volvo when the SUV just landed on top of their vehicle. - PUB DATE: 7/19/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WPVI-TV ABC 6 Philadelphia
VIDEO: A traveling EMS memorial stopped Monday in the Ohio Valley on its trek across the country.
"We realized how impactful that is to the honorees families when they get to see all of this,” said Jana Williams, president of the National EMS Memorial Service.
The memorial made its way to Follansbee on Monday, one stop on its trip that began in Texas a few days ago and will end in Arlington, Va. - PUB DATE: 7/19/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WTOV-TV NBC/FOX 9 Steubenville
VIDEO/PHOTOS: The North Las Vegas Police Department confirmed on Sunday afternoon that there was a plane crash at North Las Vegas Airport.
Police said they received the call at around 12:04 p.m.
The Clark County Department of Aviation provided a statement saying that at the airport, there were two general aviation aircraft that resulted in multiple fatalities. - PUB DATE: 7/18/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KTNV-TV ABC 13 Las Vegas
PHOTOS: The schematic design for a new campus that would include a new city hall and fire station was updated and presented to Steamboat Springs City Council on Tuesday, July 12.
Principals from Davis Partnership Architects, who are designing the new fire station, and Anderson Hallas Architects, the designers of the new city hall, were present at Tuesday’s work session to bring City Council up to speed on the designs’ progress. - PUB DATE: 7/18/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Steamboat Pilot & Today
VIDEO/PHOTOS: Baltic firefighter Wayne Troyer held the fire hose in his right hand and placed his left on his co-worker's shoulder.
The referee started the countdown. "Three!"
Troyer looked up at the barrel. It was attached on a line that ran above him. Opposite his team were their opponents: three firefighters from the Winesburg Fire Department. - PUB DATE: 7/18/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Daily Record - Metered Site
VIDEO: Drug overdoses are taking the lives of hundreds of thousands of people every year in the United States.
Law enforcement agencies are throwing all of their resources at drug dealers to put a stop to the trafficking of killer drugs, while local firefighters are trying to train the public in reversing the effects. - PUB DATE: 7/18/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WJXT-TV 4 Jacksonville
Firefighters responded to an auto parts yard in south Sacramento after two cars caught fire early Friday morning.
The fire started just after 3 a.m. near 25th Avenue and Florin Perkins Road. Crews got to the scene and found the fire in the middle of an auto dismantler yard. Apparently, two vehicles that had just shown up at the yard after some recent accidents had caught fire. - PUB DATE: 7/15/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KOVR-TV CBS 13 Sacramento
VIDEO: When the call for help goes out, LifeFlight of Maine answers.
But when they’re not saving lives all across the Pine Tree State, they’re keeping their skills sharp at the all-new simulation and learning lab.
The in-house labs officially opened this week in Bangor, Auburn and Sanford, the beginning of a statewide training connection. - PUB DATE: 7/15/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WABI-TV CBS 5 Bangor
PHOTOS: Two Elizabeth volunteer firefighters recently took the trip of a lifetime when they drove the town’s first firetruck along U.S. 20 from Elizabeth to Newport, Ore., a round-trip journey of more than 4,000 miles.
Bob “Hambone” Wand, who is retired from the Elizabeth Fire Department, and Jacob Krug, a current volunteer, left Elizabeth on June 17 in the 1½-ton 1937 Chevrolet Rotary Fire Pump firetruck. - PUB DATE: 7/15/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Telegraph Herald - Metered Site
Nearly four years ago, Brian Kyle “BK” Frizzell lost his sister, Haley Frizzell, and roommate David Angel Ortiz to a fire that was deliberately set at the Iconic Village Apartments in San Marcos. Haley, 19, was the youngest of five victims – along with Dru Estes, 20; Belinda Moats, 21; Ortiz, 21; and James Philip Miranda, 23 – who lost their lives on July 20, 2018. - PUB DATE: 7/15/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Texas Standard
The Philadelphia Fire Department (PFD) is welcoming 76 new members — 67 firefighter/EMTs and nine paramedics — into its ranks after a nine-month training program.
This year was the first live audience fire department graduation after the start of the pandemic. The fire department also celebrates 150 years in 2022. - PUB DATE: 7/15/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Al Dia News
VIDEO: Logan Schneider thought his day was done on his family's cherry farm last week when it was really just beginning.
"Looking at what happened, I don't know how we both got out," he said.
Logan was riding a tractor in the orchard about 12 miles north of Wenatchee last week when a helicopter hit overhead powerlines and landed on top of him. - PUB DATE: 7/14/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KING-TV NBC 5 Seattle
VIDEO: Every day at work, Dyllon Ryser gets to help people. Whether it's fighting fires, providing urgent medical care, or sometimes offering a pep talk on the side.
"Good job. Keep up the hard work, man. Keep your head up, OK," Ryser said to a man needing first aid. "I know it's hard out there on the streets. - PUB DATE: 7/14/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KSL-TV NBC 5 Salt Lake City
Maine is home to one of the most important training sites in the country for law enforcement canines.
That’s according to the people who pay for all of it.
State Farm Insurance has been funding arson dog purchasing and training since 1993. Heather Paul, the company's national arson dog program coordinator, said the average residential house fire costs them $45,000 to insure. - PUB DATE: 7/14/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WCSH-TV NBC 6 Portland
Peoria Fire Department is gearing up for fall recruitment by thinking outside the box to attract talent.
Interim Fire Chief Shawn Sollberger said recruitment numbers have been down for a while.
“What we’re used to is hundreds of people wanting to be a firefighter, and now we’re running into dozens of people wanting to be firefighter,” he said. - PUB DATE: 7/14/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WMBD-TV CBS 26 Peoria
On Monday, a SpaceX booster test ended with an explosion on the Orbital Launch Pad triggering a fire near the base of the launch tower, as detailed in a recent video posted by NASASpaceflight. The Booster 7 test was conducted in preparation for a future Starship orbital test flight in Cameron County, Texas, according to the NASA video of the incident. - PUB DATE: 7/13/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Beaumont Enterprise - Metered Site
The new mental health crisis number 988 launches Saturday, according to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. The number will be available 24/7 for people to anonymously call or text trained counselors at the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, suicide is a leading cause of death in the United States. - PUB DATE: 7/13/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WRC-TV NBC 4 Washington, D.C.
A pair of large fires in the late-1870s in Alpena altered the shape of the newly incorporated city and the development afterward remains visible today thanks to tougher building requirements inspired by the blazes.
The fires not only shifted future development from Alpena’s north side to the other side of the Thunder Bay River, but also led to the establishment of the city Fire Department and motivated what was then called the Alpena Common Council to draft and implement new zoning and building codes to help bolster safety. - PUB DATE: 7/13/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Alpena News
The New Britain Fire Department and Local 992 have come to an agreement to randomly drug test staff members.
The agreement will test a third of the department yearly. That is about 45 people of the 130 on staff. Chief Raul Ortiz says it’s a robust and extensive policy.
In January, a New Britain firefighter died at his Southington home. - PUB DATE: 7/13/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WTIC-TV FOX 61 Hartford
VIDEO: An Ohio man is proving even though his body is different, he can do what everyone else can and more. Four times a week, Mike Diehl walks into Powerstation Gym, loads up the rack, concentrates on his breathing, and engages his core while working out.
He continues to push the limit with every press, pull and squat. - PUB DATE: 7/13/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WTOV-TV NBC/FOX 9 Steubenville
