In 2010, an East Tennessee firefighter by the name of Michael Robinson saw first-hand how hot a burning building can be when he almost watched his partner die from overheating.
“We didn’t have anything to help us cool off. We had some lukewarm bottles of water, a cold towel around his neck and it could have turned out a lot different but we saved him,” said Robinson. - PUB DATE: 3/8/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WVLT-TV CBS 8 Knoxville
Two years after COVID-19 first forced widespread closures in the U.S., Americans are more optimistic about the trajectory of the pandemic than they have been since last June before the delta and omicron variants of the virus swept through the country. As COVID-19 infections, hospitalizations and deaths continue to decline, Americans' concern about contracting the disease has dropped precipitously. - PUB DATE: 3/8/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Gallup
VIDEOS: Memphis Fire Department arrived on the scene of an active fire at Baymont Inn hotel on the 6000 block of Shelby Oaks Drive Monday, March 7 at 12:57.
According to an official statement released from MFD, the fire started when several mattresses were placed against the hotel building and intentionally set on fire. - PUB DATE: 3/7/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WATN-TV ABC 24 Memphis
PHOTOS: Rural firefighters had to get creative while fighting a house fire in a remote area Saturday night.
Swan Valley Fire Department spokeswoman Kat Brainard said the call came in around 9:15 p.m. at 224 Pine Creek Bench Road. A witness had spotted a chimney fire at the home that was spreading to other areas of the residence. - PUB DATE: 3/7/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: East Idaho News
Firefighters around the country are just starting the tedious process of removing firefighting foam that contains “forever chemicals.”
This toxic foam contains PFAS, or poly-fluoroalkyl substances, which can remain in the environment and in human bodies. This foam may cause health problems, including cancer. - PUB DATE: 3/7/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WWLP-TV NBC/CW+ 22 Springfield
VIDEOS: Memphis Fire Department arrived on the scene of an active fire at Baymont Inn hotel on the 6000 block of Shelby Oaks Drive Monday, March 7 at 12:57.
According to an official statement released from MFD, the fire started when several mattresses were placed against the hotel building and intentionally set on fire. - PUB DATE: 3/7/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WATN-TV ABC 24 Memphis
The massive fires that seemed to engulf building after building in the borough back in the late 1970s and early ‘80s led many declaring the “Bronx is burning.” In fact, it almost felt unusual to not use the word “fire” in conjunction with “Bronx,” because the two had become so synonymous during that time. - PUB DATE: 3/7/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Riverdale Press
Arecent CDC study found that around 140 million Americans have been infected by the coronavirus, almost double the number regularly reported in national COVID-19 case counts. And while some experts say this increase in population immunity could help stem future surges, others remain cautious about potential new variants, as well as waning immunity in the future. - PUB DATE: 3/7/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Advisory Board
Fourteen people are hurt but all residents are accounted for after a powerful explosion and fire ripped through an apartment complex in Silver Spring, Maryland, on Thursday, officials said in an update Friday.
Three people have serious injuries, Montgomery County Fire Chief Scott Goldstein said at a morning news conference. - PUB DATE: 3/4/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WRC-TV NBC 4 Washington, D.C.
An explosion and fire at a Silver Spring-area apartment complex on Thursday brought back memories of a fatal explosion in 2016 that killed seven people and displaced nearly 70.
Thursday’s explosion and fire happened at Friendly Garden Apartments at 2423 Lyttonsville Road. About a dozen people were injured, including 10 who went to area hospitals. - PUB DATE: 3/4/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Bethesda Magazine
Though the township's firefighters union has lost a court battle, it has won a victory in its fight for new safety measures.
A state appeals court has thrown cold water on the union's request to seek arbitration on a grievance about manpower levels in the fire department, that arose after a May 2020 apartment building fire that left more than 30 tenants temporarily homeless. - PUB DATE: 3/4/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: My Central Jersey - Metered Site
VIDEO: Winston-Salem Fire Chief Trey Mayo calls the Weaver Fertilizer Plant fire his “career fire.”
Just about everyone can point to that one event: the most stressful, challenging, sleep-preventing, on-the-job happening unlike any other.
For me, it was the interview I did with the husband of Sandy Bradshaw about a week after Sept. - PUB DATE: 3/4/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WGHP-TV FOX 8 Greensboro
VIDEO: A group of FDNY probationary firefighters carried Ukrainian flags among U.S. flags as they ran across Ward’s Island Bridge in New York City on Thursday, March 3, in "a show of solidarity and support for the people and first responders of Ukraine," the FDNY said.
Footage shared by the department shows the Ukrainian flag among American flags as the group ran above Harlem River on Thursday. - PUB DATE: 3/4/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WNYW-TV FOX 5 New York
More than two dozen firefighters raced to put out fierce flames after a home in Margate caught fire.
Margate Fire Rescue units responded to the scene of the blaze along the 1300 block of Northwest 58th Street, at around 6 p.m., Wednesday.
Neighbors across the street recorded and sent videos to 7News of flames and gusts of black smoke coming from the burning residence. - PUB DATE: 3/3/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WSVN-TV FOX 7 Miami
PHOTOS: A diver with the Port Arthur Fire Department entered the Sabine-Neches Ship Channel in January in an attempted recovery. But he soon after got entangled in old metal and ended up underneath a concrete pad beneath the surface.
Simultaneously, a military vessel was coming through the ship channel. - PUB DATE: 3/3/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Port Arthur News - Metered Site
Every superhero has a secret identity and an origin story. When Eli Ramos isn’t protecting Jersey City as a firefighter, he can be seen putting his superpowers to the test as an art instructor, mural painter, and comic book illustrator. Now he’s teaming up with the West Hudson Arts & Theatre Company (W. - PUB DATE: 3/3/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Jersey Journal - NJ.com
A group of Mississippi firefighters caught fire during their desperate attempt to save a 3-year-old from a burning apartment on March 1, according to the Greenville Fire Department. The boy died in the fire. But the valiant attempt to rescue him at all costs is being hailed as heroic in Greenville, 150 miles southwest of Memphis, Tennessee. - PUB DATE: 3/3/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Raleigh News & Observer
A home exploded on Millers Court Tuesday afternoon in O’Fallon, Missouri. The St. Charles Ambulance District says that there are no injuries. The cause of the explosion is currently under investigation. Initial reports indicate that the fire department was called to the scene for a gas leak.
First responders have the fire under control. - PUB DATE: 3/2/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KTVI-TV FOX 2 St. Louis
The Los Angeles City Council voted Tuesday to confirm the appointment of Deputy Chief Kristin Crowley who will become the first woman to lead the Los Angeles Fire Department.
The appointment would be effective March 26, when Chief Ralph Terrazas is scheduled to retire.
"I think it's so fitting for this nomination to come to council today, on the first day of Women's History Month,'' Council President Nury Martinez said. - PUB DATE: 3/2/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KNBC-TV NBC 4 Los Angeles
PHOTOS: Fire officials this week took to social media to remember a firebombing at a local mattress factory that the FBI classified at the time as the “largest arson case” nationwide.
Tuesday marked 47 years since an enormous blaze ripped through the B.F. Goodrich Sponge Rubber mattress factory — now, the site of the city’s riverwalk — in one of the biggest industrial arson cases to hit the nation. - PUB DATE: 3/2/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: New Haven Register
