April is National Donate Life Month, raising awareness about the importance of organ donation.
Just last week, the power of community helped a local woman awaiting a transplant get to the hospital to receive her new organs.
Right in the middle of severe storms we had last Wednesday, an evening phone call put the O'Daniels family on the clock. - PUB DATE: 4/19/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WTHR-TV NBC 13 Indianapolis
Michael Fearing has been a firefighter for more than 30 years. He said a typical fire hose lasts 10-15 years. They get pressure tested each year and if they fail; they have to be replaced.
Over the years, Fearing has watched thousands of feet of used fire hose enter landfills.
“I’ve probably disposed of miles and miles of hose. - PUB DATE: 4/19/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Spectrum News 1
A fire that destroyed a beloved historic church in Englewood reignited overnight.
Bystanders Saturday morning thought to have seen smoke coming from the church, but fire officials confirmed that it was steam from the extinguished fire.
The extra-alarm fire destroyed the historic Antioch Missionary Baptist Church on Good Friday afternoon. - PUB DATE: 4/18/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WANE-TV CBS 15 Fort Wayne
The New York City Fire Museum ("the Museum") opened a new exhibition, Unmasking Our Heroes, which celebrates the valiant efforts of the Emergency Medical Service workforce – the Paramedics, EMTs, and other officers of the New York City Fire Department – during the pandemic. The exhibition, Unmasking Our Heroes, will be on display from Friday, April 15, until late August 2022. - PUB DATE: 4/18/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: New York City Patch
“Loudoun County firefighter to compete in Miss USA pageant” — there’s a headline you don’t write every day. But a big congratulations to Ashburn’s Kailee Horvath, who won the Miss Virginia pageant over the weekend.
And yes, she’s also a volunteer firefighter.
The Ashburn Volunteer Fire Rescue Department celebrated Horvath’s victory with a post Sunday: “Congratulations go out to Kailee Horvath, FF/EMT on being crowned Miss Virginia USA 2022. - PUB DATE: 4/18/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Burn
A New Jersey firefighter has started teaching classes to firefighters, and other first responders about what to do if they respond to a situation where a person, more specifically a child, is on the autism spectrum.
Donald Colarusso, president of All Hands Fire Equipment and Training in Neptune City, said it's important to make first responders aware of certain encounters where a person with autism may not welcome what the firefighters would consider a routine engagement. - PUB DATE: 4/18/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WKXW-FM 101.5 Trenton
VIDEO: A crash involving a fire truck and a tractor-trailer injured three firefighters on Thursday night in New Castle County, Delaware.
It happened around 7 p.m. on eastbound I-295 at Landers Lane.
Officials say a Minquadale Fire Company truck was responding to an accident when the truck was hit by a tractor-trailer. - PUB DATE: 4/15/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WPVI-TV ABC 6 Philadelphia
PHOTOS: A wind-driven fire tore through a neighborhood Thursday evening on the East Side, destroying or damaging five homes and multiple vehicles.
Seventeen fire companies and 80 firefighters battled the four-alarm blaze on Mannering Road, just south of Euclid Avenue in the Euclid-Green neighborhood, according to a news release from the Cleveland Division of Fire. - PUB DATE: 4/15/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Cleveland.com
A bill that would give Illinois emergency dispatchers more benefits and officially classify the profession as first responders could soon be sent to the governor.
Senate Bill 3127 was filed by state Sen. Neil Anderson and provides that emergency dispatchers are now COVID-19 first responders.
If signed by Gov. - PUB DATE: 4/15/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Center Square
PHOTOS: It’s not every day that a major building in San Jose becomes consumed by a raging inferno, sending up dark clouds of smoke that can be seen for miles, forcing hundreds of people to flee for safety and captivating the nation’s attention.
So when a Home Depot store in South San Jose quickly burst aflame last weekend, many residents were reminded of one of the city’s last calamitous structure fires: the 2002 Santana Row blaze. - PUB DATE: 4/15/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Mercury News - Metered Site
Emergencies follow no set schedule and can happen at a moment’s notice. So when firefighters with the Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department file into the Wellfit center in Chantilly, they often bring their equipment with them, leaving their gear near the entrance and trucks parked out front in case their shift is called into action. - PUB DATE: 4/15/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Fairfax County Times
A risk of explosion and toxic smoke from a raging fire at a food processing plant in south Salinas has prompted the Salinas Fire Department to begin evacuating nearby residents.
The evacuation notice is for the areas near the fire -- at the Taylor Farms Processing Facility -- between South Main Street, East Alisal Street, Alisal Road and Harris Road. - PUB DATE: 4/14/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KABC-TV ABC 7 Los Angeles
There's a big red bag on board the Special Operations vehicle for Pennsylvania Ambulance, and it's not just extra medical supplies.
Bruce Beauvais from Pennsylvania Ambulance says every time they respond to a fire, this kit will go with them. Inside is equipment to check for carbon monoxide levels in a victim's bloodstream and the air around them, along with an antidote for hydrogen cyanide poisoning, which can happen when you inhale too much smoke. - PUB DATE: 4/14/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WNEP-TV ABC 16 Scranton
John Orndorff says he’s an adrenaline junky - that’s one of the reasons he became a firefighter more than 17 years ago. But being a lieutenant at Frederick County Fire and Rescue in Winchester, Virginia, means some days are a little less high octane.
“We have an elderly community back here behind us that we service,” Orndorff says. - PUB DATE: 4/14/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Virginia Public Media
VIDEO: The difference between a click and a call matters in a dispatch center, and before April 5, dispatchers at the Thornton Emergency Communication Center had to call other agencies to be able to dispatch them, instead of seeing in real time where they were, and clicking to send them.
"So it could take up to one to two to almost three minutes sometimes, depending," said Brandi Seaton, the Communications Center Supervisor. - PUB DATE: 4/14/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KUSA-TV NBC 9 Denver
The World Health Organization and the Biden administration are both saying that COVID-19 remains a public health emergency, even as global deaths from the virus have reached the lowest levels since March 2020.
Both the WHO and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services first declared COVID-19 a public health emergency in January 2020. - PUB DATE: 4/14/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: NPR
A hotel under construction in Camarillo was destroyed when a massive fire broke out Tuesday night.
Firefighters with the Ventura County Fire Department were called to the hotel located at Ventura Boulevard and Las Posas Road at about 7:15 p.m.
When crews arrived, heavy smoke was pouring out from the second and fourth floor, investigators said. - PUB DATE: 4/13/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KABC-TV ABC 7 Los Angeles
The fire of a vacant rowhome in southwest Baltimore that took the lives of three Baltimore City firefighters in January has been ruled a homicide.
Lt. Paul Butrim, Lt. Kelsey Sadler, and Firefighter/EMT Kenny Lacayo lost their lives battling the deadly fire at 205 South Striker Street on January 24. - PUB DATE: 4/13/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WBAL-AM 1090 Baltimore
VIDEO: The Bowling Green Fire Department received a unique donation Monday - a fire-engine red corvette from the National Corvette Museum.
The corvette will be used this year for school prevention classes, parades, and special events.
”Working here going on 125 years, you know, this year and we’ve had this corvette plant here for quite some time. - PUB DATE: 4/13/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WBKO-TV ABC/FOX/CW+ 13 Bowling Green
Negotiating new pay for the first time in four years, the City of Austin received some major blowback after offering a 14 cent raise for entry-level employees in Austin’s emergency medical services department.
According to the Austin EMS Association, 26% of its staff are considered low income. In a statement, the city said a pay study found the maximum pay for Austin EMTs and paramedics is higher “than that of comparable agencies when you adjust wages for regional costs. - PUB DATE: 4/13/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KXAN-TV NBC 36 Austin
