A University of Florida research team is working on a robot dog that has the ability to enter an enclosed space, scan it, and provide humans with a visual of what’s inside, an application that could lessen dangerous situations for first responders.
The team of graduate and undergraduate students is led by Eric Jing Du, Ph. - PUB DATE: 5/20/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: University of Florida News
VIDEO: Sacramento area firefighters are facing some new challenges on emergency calls.
A man is going up to crews with a camera while they’re on calls, often peppering them with foul language and intimidation. Video shows the man behind the camera verbally confronting fire crews and coming right up to firefighters with taunting language. - PUB DATE: 5/19/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KOVR-TV CBS 13 Sacramento
For the first time in its history, Albuquerque Fire Rescue now has a behavioral health director.
AFR Behavioral Health Director Maia Dalton-Theodore will be tasked with supporting the mental health needs of the department’s firefighters, paramedics, and EMTs.
"I really look forward to continuing the ongoing mission of normalizing the ability for people to ask for help and reducing the stigma, and also to continue the work around behavioral health for this department,” she said. - PUB DATE: 5/19/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KOB-TV NBC 4 Albuquerque
Sixty-six emergency communications districts in Tennessee experienced service interruptions, lasting more than 97 hours, as a result of the Christmas morning suicide bombing on Second Avenue in downtown Nashville, according to a report released earlier this month by the Tennessee Emergency Communications Board. - PUB DATE: 5/19/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Tennessee Outlook
Atlanta is set to build its first “micro station” for emergency medical services in southwest Atlanta to shorten response times to 911 calls.
The City Council on Monday voted to approve up to $4 million in bonds that the city will borrow to fund the new station. It will be located at 4532 Campbellton Road on property that is owned by the city, Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms said in a press release. - PUB DATE: 5/19/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution - Metered Site
Tuesday was a "landmark day," as the United States reached a new COVID-19 vaccine milestone: 60% of adults have now received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine, according to the US Centers and Disease Control and Prevention.
But vaccination rates across the United States are uneven -- a worrisome trend that could obstruct efforts to end the COVID-19 pandemic. - PUB DATE: 5/19/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: CNN Health
VIDEO: A large fire broke out at a paper recycling center in New Jersey Monday afternoon sending plumes of black smoke into the air.
The fire, which broke out just before 5 p.m., prompted a 3-alarm response from nearby fire departments to the Colgate Paper Stock Recyclable Processing Facility in New Brunswick. - PUB DATE: 5/18/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WNBC-TV NBC 4 New York
VIDEO: A firehouse was evacuated and a nearby Roslindale street was shut down Monday night after a suspicious package containing an unknown chemical was discovered.
The suspicious package came in the mail to a Brooke Street home, prompting a resident to bring the package to the nearby firehouse on Canterbury Street, fire officials said. - PUB DATE: 5/18/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WHDH-TV 7 Boston
VIDEO: A 100-year-old fire engine has been refurbished and returned to it’s original department.
Larry Manaro spent a year restoring McDonald’s first fire engine. Now retired Fire Chief Todd Stitt approached him about fixing it up.
The truck was in rough shape and had been stored in a garage for years. - PUB DATE: 5/18/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WYTV ABC 33 Youngstown
VIDEO: A fire department ambulance that was stolen Monday in Reading later crashed into a tractor-trailer in Lancaster County.
Reading police say Reading Fire Department ambulance No. 4 was taken while first responders were attending to a call inside Kennedy Towers senior center, located in the 300 block of South Fourth Street. - PUB DATE: 5/18/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WFMZ-TV 69 Allentown
VIDEO/PHOTOS: Thick black smoke billowed into the air Sunday after a train derailed in northwest Iowa, prompting authorities to evacuate part of a small, nearby town.
The fiery derailment happened early Sunday afternoon on the southwest edge of Sibley, which is a town of about 3,000 people roughly 200 miles (321. - PUB DATE: 5/17/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KMSP-TV FOX 9 Minneapolis
VIDEO: Mayor Lori Lightfoot has tapped Acting Chicago Fire Commissioner Annette Nance-Holt, who lost her teenage son to one of the city’s most infamous shootings in 2007, to serve as the first Black woman to run the Chicago Fire Department.
Lightfoot announced Nance-Holt’s nomination at a graduation ceremony for the latest class of Chicago Fire Department paramedics on Friday. - PUB DATE: 5/17/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WBBM-TV CBS 2 Chicago
A "rift."
That is how Carter Stewart and Ohio State University described the relationship between Columbus city leaders and the police department.
The city has a new social media policy for police officers and firefighters. It says, while social media can be fun, employees could be disciplined, even fired, for saying anything negative about the city and its operations. - PUB DATE: 5/17/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WBNS-TV CBS 10 Columbus
VIDEO: The FDNY is gearing up for a very busy season on the water.
The department answered hundreds of calls last year, and is expecting the same this year. CBS2’s Andrea Grymes got an inside look at how they do their job, and what you can do to stay safe.
With sunny skies ahead and calm seas around her, Grymes went on patrol with the FDNY’s Marine Division. - PUB DATE: 5/17/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WCBS-TV CBS 2 New York
Every day, in communities across the country, Emergency Medical Service (EMS) providers put themselves on the line to save lives, safeguard dangerous situations, and deliver hope to families and communities in crisis. With selflessness, professionalism, and grace under fire, they provide essential care — never more so than during our battle with COVID-19 over the past year. - PUB DATE: 5/17/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The White House
On Thursday, May 13, Firefighters from across Southern Ocean County responded to a structure fire at an 8 unit apartment building in the Royal Timbers complex. According to the Little Egg Harbor Township Police Officers arrived approx 3pm to Wild Oaks Court where they immediately encountered the fire and began to evacuate and redirect traffic. - PUB DATE: 5/14/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: TAP into Little Egg Harbor & Tuckerton
The state of Michigan is taking blood samples from firefighters as part of a project to study how much exposure they receive to toxic PFAS chemicals.
This week, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) announced the launch of the PFAS in Firefighters of Michigan Surveillance (PFOMS) project, a multi-year $1 million biomonitoring effort to assess firefighter exposure to the “forever chemicals. - PUB DATE: 5/14/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Mlive
VIDEO: It was not business as usual at Storm Engine Company No. 2 in Derby. One day after the tragedy in New Haven that cost the life of fallen firefighter Ricardo Torres, who ran into a burning building, saving the lives of two people.
It would be his final heroic act.
Firefighters in Derby shared with News 8 what drives firefighters to do what most people would not — run towards danger?
“Somebody has to answer the call when somebody needs help,” said Capt. - PUB DATE: 5/14/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WTNH-TV ABC 8 New Haven
VIDEOS: This weekend's graduation day marks 25 years since a tragic fire in a UNC fraternity house killed five students.
The painful date is etched in local memory: May 12, 1996.
It was graduation day – and Mother's Day.
A smoldering cigarette sent the Phi Gamma Delta house up in flames, killing five students and injuring three on what should have been a happy day of commencement. - PUB DATE: 5/14/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WRAL-TV NBC 5 Raleigh
Just 30% of Americans are worried about contracting COVID-19, the lowest fear level recorded by Gallup since the survey firm began tracking the pandemic in April 2020, and 69% of Americans said the pandemic was getting “better” in the U.S. as more Americans get vaccinated and states begin reopening parts of the economy. - PUB DATE: 5/14/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Forbes
