Emergency response agencies across Missouri now have a goal of clearing an accident scene on state highways in less than 90 minutes.
A handful of other states already have something similar in place, like Washington, Florida, and Tennessee. The goal is to have the roadway clear 90 minutes after a first responder arrives on the scene. - PUB DATE: 11/9/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WDAF-TV FOX 4 Kansas City
A person died in a fire that burned a building in Manchester, New Hampshire, Saturday while several more people were rescued, officials said.
A firefighter was burned and had to be flown to Boston for treatment, Manchester Fire Chief Andy Parent said. Another person was also taken by helicopter to a Boston hospital for medical treatment. - PUB DATE: 11/8/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WBTS-TV NBC 10 Boston
Charlotte-Mecklenburg is hosting its second annual diversity, equity and inclusion conference, and the opening speaker is no stranger to breaking barriers.
Synthia Kearney never remembers seeing a female firefighter when she was growing up, but today she is the first female battalion chief for the Gastonia Fire Department. - PUB DATE: 11/8/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WSOC-TV ABC 9 Charlotte
VIDEO: It started like any other November day at the Heaven Hill Distillery in Bardstown until disaster struck in 1996 and a wooden warehouse went up in flames.
WHAS11’s Sky11 chopper raced to the scene as smoke billowed above.
Water did little in the fight against burning bourbon and within minutes, the first warehouse was a total loss. - PUB DATE: 11/8/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WHAS-TV ABC 11 Louisville
Mental health continues to be a growing concern among first responders.
Molly Doyle never knows when that call is going to come. None of them do. It's the nature of being a firefighter.
"My job is to drive the engine to whatever call that is," said Doyle, who is a firefighter with the Unified Fire Authority. - PUB DATE: 11/8/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KSL-TV NBC 5 Salt Lake City
The crowd deaths at a Houston music festival added even more names to the long list of people who have been crushed at a major event.
Tragedies like the one Friday night at the Astroworld Music Festival have been happening for a long time. In 1979, 11 people died in a scramble to enter a Cincinnati, Ohio, concert by The Who. - PUB DATE: 11/8/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WLS-TV ABC 7 Chicago
VIDEO: It took 100 firefighters about an hour and a half to get the upper hand on a blaze that gutted a Koreatown karaoke bar and pool hall at 207 S. Vermont Ave. on Thursday.
The Los Angeles Fire Department said they were actually able to get crews inside the building at first, but the intensity of the fire grew in the attic. - PUB DATE: 11/5/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KCAL-TV CBS 2 Los Angeles
VIDEO: A Lubbock native is headed to Chicago in December as he embarks on a new role in the hit television show Chicago Fire. First, he wanted to stop by and learn from his hometown heroes.
“I think it’s very, very important whenever you can become this character months before,” Ynez Spencer said. “And, I think it’s very important to show up ready to go. - PUB DATE: 11/5/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KCBD-TV NBC 11 Lubbock
The Seminole County Fire Department says golf carts and other low-emission vehicles are becoming more popular in Central Florida but they are also causing a fire concern.
"The big problem we are worried about with hydrogen gas is the explosiveness of the hydrogen gas it has a wide flammable range," said Lt. - PUB DATE: 11/5/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WOFL-TV FOX 35 Orlando
The North Carolina Department of Justice filed suit Thursday against more than a dozen manufacturers of firefighting foam that contains toxic "forever chemicals," accusing the companies of failing to tell those using the foam how to properly handle it, leading to groundwater contamination at four sites across the state. - PUB DATE: 11/5/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Times News
The U.S. has settled into an uneasy, drawn-out exit from the delta surge that took hold over the summer.
For many weeks, declining cases and hospitalizations have offered hope ahead of the holiday season, when Americans travel and spend more time indoors, but progress has stalled recently, with cases rising or plateauing in more than 20 states. - PUB DATE: 11/5/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WFAE-FM 90.7 Charlotte
PHOTOS: After a car struck a deer in the early hours of the morning, a tanker truck then collided with the car, causing the truck to overturn and explode, police said.
According to police, Marissa Patterson, 18, of Forked River, was driving east on Route 37 at around 3 a.m. when a deer ran out in front of her car. - PUB DATE: 11/4/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Jersey Shore Online
St. Paul Fire Capt. Mike Paidar loved helping people and his family is hoping a new determination about his death will allow that legacy to live on.
Minnesota Public Safety Commissioner John Harrington recently concluded Paidar’s death from cancer was linked to his work and therefore occurred in the line of duty, making his family eligible for public safety officer death benefits. - PUB DATE: 11/4/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Pioneer Press - Metered Site
VIDEO/PHOTOS: A unique piece of history has returned home to one North Texas town.
A 1948 fire engine was recently discovered in a field by landowners in Sweetwater, Texas.
Anna Fire Chief Ray Isom says the landowners contacted the department and offered to donate the engine back to the city.
“They actually sent photos of it,” Isom said. - PUB DATE: 11/4/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KXAS-TV NBC 5 Fort Worth
Mitch Hokanson was making noise on the side of Oasis Rd. and causing drivers to turn their cars around to see what he was creating. Hokanson was in the middle of carving a large fish out of wood with a chainsaw, and this is his twentieth year finetuning his craft.
Hokanson creates chainsaw wood art and said he was first taught skills from his artistic mom and learned woodcutting from his dad, but he is also has learned a lot on his own. - PUB DATE: 11/4/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KRCR-TV ABC 7 Redding
First responders across Massachusetts are warning residents to avoid a scam text message claiming to be running a t-shirt sale to benefit local fire departments.
The texts, fire officials say, impersonate the “friends of” groups of towns’ fire departments and offer limited edition t-shirts to support the firefighters. - PUB DATE: 11/4/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Masslive.com
VIDEOS: Firefighters battled a fire in Everett on Wednesday morning.
Heavy smoke could be seen filling the air as crews worked to put out the flames coming from a three-story, mixed-use building on Broadway.
The Everett deputy fire chief says everyone inside the building was able to make it out and there are no reported injuries. - PUB DATE: 11/3/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WHDH-TV ABC 7 Boston
Los Angeles City Fire Department firefighters who commute thousands of miles to work each month could be forced to relocate to Southern California if a residency requirement is imposed in order to keep emergency personnel closer to the city in the event of a major disaster.
A report prepared for the Board of Fire Commissioners showed 115 firefighters currently live out of state, including 36 about 1200 miles away in Idaho, 10 about 2000 miles away in Tennessee, 11 about 1300 miles away in Texas, and 15 more than 600 miles away in Utah. - PUB DATE: 11/3/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KNBC-TV NBC 4 Los Angeles
VIDEO: The Chippewa Valley Technical College is getting a new training experience in virtual reality for its firefighting program
“The FLAIM system is a virtual reality or immersive learning system,” Mark Schwartz, CVTC Fire, and EMS continuing education coordinator said.
Schwartz says CVTC is the first technical college in Wisconsin to have a VR firefighter simulator. - PUB DATE: 11/3/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WEAU-TV NBC 13 Eau Claire
Charlotte Firefighters are waving a red flag about a new change to city policy in how first-responders are dispatched to medical calls.
The change was announced last week.
It creates a type of response being referred to as a “Sierra Call.”
WBTV Investigative Reporter David Hodges says the change comes as MEDIC struggles with staffing issues and to keep up with call volume. - PUB DATE: 11/3/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WBTV CBS 3 Charlotte
