VIDEO: On Thursday evening, large plumes of smoke could be seen around Tampa International Airport.
Tampa Fire Rescue Airport Rescue Fire Fighting division (ARFF) hosted a training exercise so firefighters can respond to emergencies at the airport like a plane catching on fire.
Emergencies do not happen often, but the training is necessary. - PUB DATE: 12/10/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WFTS-TV ABC 28 Tampa
It’s the holiday season, which means many people are in a giving mood. People give money, and people give gifts.
What about someone who gave a part of their own body to someone they’ve never even met?
Cicero firefighter Paul Coir and Perry Galloro are best friends and have been since they first met working as truck drivers back in 1999. - PUB DATE: 12/10/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WSTM-TV NBC/CW 3 Syracuse
A massive fire destroyed a vacant building in South Jackson. The fire was reported about 9 p.m. Wednesday at what was once the ANCOR Adult Daycare on Robinson Road.
The flames were so intense that part of the building collapsed.
Deputy Chief Cleotha Sanders said the business was not operating and there was no power to the building. - PUB DATE: 12/9/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WAPT-TV ABC 16 Jackson
The pandemic has shown how critical emergency medical services are across the country.
But in South Carolina and most other states, EMS is not classified as an “essential service,” as law enforcement and fire services are.
While those services have been part of the US in some fashion since colonial times, EMS is much younger, established in many areas of the country in the 1970s, according to South Carolina EMS Association Advocacy and Legislative Chair Steven McDade. - PUB DATE: 12/9/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WIS-TV NBC/CW 10 Columbia
VIDEO/PHOTOS: Jefferson County Public Schools is utilizing virtual reality to train future firefighters.
The district is incorporating virtual reality into its academic programs and pathways, including in the Fire Science program at Fern Creek High School. Students use VR headsets to experience what it's like to enter a burning building. - PUB DATE: 12/9/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WDRB-TV FOX 41 Louisville
Christopher Williams is still in disbelief that he’s going to be an astronaut.
“It’s still almost a little bit surreal, something that you’ve dreamed about your whole life and now getting the opportunity to do, I feel so lucky and honored to have the chance to do this and to be part of the team,” he told MyMCM. - PUB DATE: 12/9/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: My Montgomery County Media
Dec. 8, 2021, is officially known as Florida Urban Search & Rescue Task Force 3 Day in Hillsborough County in honor of the first responders that jumped into action after this summer's deadly Surfside condo collapse. In the wake of the tragedy that claimed 98 lives, some 75 men and women across the Tampa Bay area were dispatched to South Florida to assist with search and rescue efforts. - PUB DATE: 12/9/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WTSP-TV CBS News 10 Tampa
A large Christmas tree outside Fox's Midtown headquarters was set ablaze early Wednesday by an arsonist who was quickly taken into custody.
The 50-foot tree on Sixth Avenue went up in flames just before 12:15 a.m., and heavy flames then spread to smaller decorated trees in the display. Police say the 49-year-old suspect climbed up "the metal superstructure" -- the tree is an artificial sculpture that is shaped to look like a tree -- lit papers he brought with him on fire, and shoved the papers into the tree structure. - PUB DATE: 12/8/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WABC-TV ABC 7 New York
PHOTOS: The Savannah Fire Department displayed artwork created by students at Islands High School and their teacher on Tuesday. The five pieces of artwork were part of an ongoing project to honor the history of the Savannah Fire Department. The project required students to do archival research in order to uncover photographs to incorporate into the artwork. - PUB DATE: 12/8/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WSAV-TV NBC/CW+3 Savannah
Saturday, December 11th marks the 30th anniversary of the Page County Courthouse fire.
In commemoration of that tragic and historic event, KMA News presents a special series of reports looking back at the fire, its aftermath, and the effort by Page County residents to save the venerable structure. In part one of "The Night the Courthouse Burned," local officials past and present recall the moment the unthinkable occurred. - PUB DATE: 12/8/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KMA-AM 960/FM 99.1 Shenandoah
VIDEO: On any given call, the likelihood first responders will find an electric vehicle on the streets of Phoenix is going up.
“There are more and more of these electric vehicles on the road, so we have to be more cognizant if it’s a hybrid if it’s an electric vehicle, how we approach it,” Capt. Evan Gammage with Phoenix Fire Department said. - PUB DATE: 12/8/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KPNX-TV NBC 12 Phoenix
For the first time in two months, the United States is averaging more than 100,000 new COVID-19 cases each day, shortly after millions of Americans traveled for the Thanksgiving holiday.
The seven-day moving average of new cases was 121,437 as of Saturday, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. - PUB DATE: 12/8/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KABC-TV ABC 7 Los Angeles
VIDEO/PHOTOS: No one was hurt, but one of Three Brothers Wineries and Estates’ famed spots was destroyed in a fire on Monday.
Firefighters from Varick, Romulus, Ovid, Fayette, Border City, Oaks Corners, Lodi, Interlaken, Canoga, and Waterloo were called to the scene shortly after 6 p.m. Flames could be seen from a significant distance away. - PUB DATE: 12/7/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: FingerLakes1
VIDEO: More than 500 firefighters are on staff in Wichita. Of those, only six have been through the smoke divers training in Georgia, and three others attended a spin-off course in Oklahoma and Indiana.
Those who have passed the training said it is helping their response time to save those in need. - PUB DATE: 12/7/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KSNW-TV NBC 3 Wichita
Gov. Tony Evers was in Amherst to sign 2021 AB 297 into law on Monday.
The governor was joined by Democratic Rep. Katrina Shankland, of Stevens Point and other local elected leaders, first responders, roadside assistance workers, and construction and utility workers.
“Many of the jobs are hazardous enough on their own without having to fear for your life due to a distracted or dangerous driver,” said Governor Tony Evers, “at every crash site, our states emergency responders whether it’s fire, law enforcement, EMS, towing and transportation, are at risk of being struck, injured, or even killed. - PUB DATE: 12/7/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WSAW-TV CBS 7 Wausau
When Julio DeCastro, a civilian worker at Pearl Harbor’s naval yard, reached the capsized U.S.S. Oklahoma on the infamous morning of December 7, 1941, he heard the sound of frenetic tapping of sailors trapped within the hull. Hours earlier, during a surprise assault on the Honolulu military base, Japanese forces had bombarded the American battleship with torpedoes, sending it rolling onto its side with more than 450 men still below deck. - PUB DATE: 12/7/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Smithsonian Magazine - Metered Site
VIDEO: An expanded partnership between the Columbus Fire & EMS Department and the Muscogee County School District helps the city recruit firefighters and provides job opportunities for aspiring public servants, right out of high school. After department officials visited each MCSD high school to explain the program last spring semester, more than 25 students participated in the Saturday morning program called Combat Challenge. - PUB DATE: 12/7/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Ledger-Enquirer
VIDEO/PHOTOS: A three-alarm fire raged early Monday (Dec. 6) at the Cypress Run Apartments complex in Algiers.
Occupants smelled smoke around 4:40 a.m. and began evacuating the first involved three-story building before New Orleans Fire Department crews arrived on scene, resident Kiesha Williams told WVUE-Fox 8. - PUB DATE: 12/6/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WVUE-DT FOX 8 New Orleans
VIDEO/PHOTOS: A Hubert Volunteer Firefighter received treatment at Vidant Medical center after an accident involving their fire engine Saturday.
Deputy Chief of the Hubert Volunteer Fire Department, Hernan Melendez, said the accident happened when his team was returning from the annual Maysville Christmas Parade. - PUB DATE: 12/6/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WLOS-TV ABC 13 Asheville
There’s a reason that the death toll of the Winecoff hotel fire in 1946 has never been surpassed.
Immediately after the disaster that killed 119 people, cities across the country began to re-examine their fire codes.
In their definitive 1993 book, “The Winecoff Fire,” co-authors Sam Heys and Allen Goodwin point out that the blaze prompted new laws requiring sprinkler systems, fire escapes and fire doors. - PUB DATE: 12/6/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution - Metered
