PHOTOS: An apartment high-rise fire in the Bronx that killed 17 people and injured dozens of others on Sunday was one of the deadlier building fires in the city's history.
Some lists of New York City's most deadly fires include the 9/11 attacks at the World Trade Center. Two commercial airline flights crashed into the towers, leading to fires and collapses of both buildings that killed about 2,750 people. - PUB DATE: 1/11/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WNYW-TV FOX 5 New York
Comedian and actor Bob Saget passed away over the weekend in Florida.
The ‘Full House’ star died at the age of 65.
Tributes have poured in from everywhere including one fire department in Louisiana.
St. Tammany Fire Protection District #1 put together a touching video in honor of Saget and posted it to their Facebook page. - PUB DATE: 1/11/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WVLA-TV NBC 33 Baton Rouge
VIDEO: The team efforts at a harrowing 2021 fire in a Vernon tenement are being featured on a national documentary.
The fire took place at 80-82 Union Street last March. A raging inferno trapped residents on the third floor and the building was engulfed in smoke.
A rescue team that sprang to action spared no title — in addition to firefighters and police officers, a registered nurse from nearby Rockville General Hospital, an Air National Guard sergeant who lived next door and Vernon's town administrator and emergency management director sprang into action and the two people trapped on the third floor were rescued. - PUB DATE: 1/11/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Vernon Patch
VIDEO/PHOTOS: An electric space heater is being blamed for sparking the horrific high-rise Bronx apartment fire that killed at least 19 people, including nine children, city officials confirmed Sunday evening.
The fire originated in a duplex on the second and third floors of the building but never extended past the unit and the hallway nearest the apartment, FDNY Commissioner Dan Nigro revealed. - PUB DATE: 1/10/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WNBC-TV NBC 4 New York
The National Fire Sprinkler Association (NFSA), the International Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF), the National Fallen Fire Fighter Foundation (NFFF), International Association Fire Chiefs (IAFC), and the National Association of State Fire Marshals (NASFM) are calling on Congress to immediately pass critical legislation to improve fire safety in public housing and older high-rise buildings. - PUB DATE: 1/10/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Bakersfield.com
PHOTOS: As he stood in the third-floor corner room that served as his office from 2000 to 2010, retired Hartford Fire Chief Charles Teale reflected on some of the more historic moments that had taken place at the Pearl Street headquarters during his tenure.
He recalled firefighters coming into the room after the 9/11 attacks and dumping piles of money they had collected for the 343 firefighters who perished at Ground Zero out onto the long conference table that dominated the room. - PUB DATE: 1/10/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Hartford Courant - Metered Site
On the morning of January 6, 2021, Christopher Holmes was starting out his second day as a battalion chief for DC Fire and EMS.
"I'd just recently been promoted," said Holmes, who's been with the department for more than 20 years.
In his role as battalion chief, he was part of the team helping to lead the DC Fire and EMS response at the Capitol as a violent crowd began storming the building. - PUB DATE: 1/10/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WJLA-TV ABC 7 Washington DC
In an ideal world, the U.S. would be awash in COVID tests. Anyone exposed to COVID-19 could self-test and/or go to a lab or clinic for a test if necessary.
But right now, self-tests are in short supply in many parts of the country.
The Biden administration is pledging to distribute 500 million rapid tests "within weeks," White House coronavirus response coordinator Jeff Zients said Wednesday, but few other details have been announced. - PUB DATE: 1/10/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: National Public Radio
VIDEO: Austin Fire Department and Austin-Travis County EMS responded to a three-alarm apartment fire early Friday morning.
ATCEMS said six ambulances responded to the Ventura Apartments at 9133 Northgate Blvd. between West Rundberg Lane and U.S. Highway 183. Upon arrival, AFD said the top portion of the complex was engulfed in flames. - PUB DATE: 1/7/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KXAN-TV NBC 36 Austin
VIDEO: Dozens of Chevrolet C8 Corvettes may have survived a tornado last month, but that doesn’t mean they’re out of danger.
In fact, about 120 examples of the iconic sports car are now scheduled to be demolished, according to Jalopnik. The vehicles, which were damaged when a catastrophic tornado hit Kentucky and five other states last month, will reportedly be scrapped to ensure no defective cars end up on the road. - PUB DATE: 1/7/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Robb Report
Knowing there's a health care crisis in Maine, one man is answering the call to help.
He's the "newest" firefighter and paramedic for the Augusta Fire Department.
“It’s like we never skipped a beat. That’s why they call it brotherhood, you’re always family,” Augusta Firefighter and Paramedic Greg Coniff said. - PUB DATE: 1/7/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WGME-TV CBS 13 Portland
VIDEO: A group of Chicago firefighters have come up with a unique fundraising campaign to keep you hot all year round!
They are posing with their fire retardant pants, axes, hoses, hats… and nothing more. "We have to stay in physically fit condition anyway, why not use the calendar as a motivator," said Henry Mendez, a Chicago firefighter EMT. - PUB DATE: 1/7/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WFLD-TV FOX 32 Chicago
An EMT and Cherokee Nation citizen who helped save a police officer’s life in 2021 is following in the footsteps of his father and grandfather to become a Tulsa firefighter.
“Failure for me is not an option,” said Christian Kaiser, 21, of Kansas, Okla. “The Tulsa Fire Department, to me, is critical. - PUB DATE: 1/7/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Cherokee Phoenix
PHOTOS: Flames from a warehouse engulfed in fire in the North End district could be seen throughout the city early Thursday morning.
Firefighters battled the fire in brutal conditions. As of 8:45 a.m., the temperature was 10 degrees below zero, with wind chill at 22 degrees below zero, according to the National Weather Service in Duluth. - PUB DATE: 1/6/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Duluth News Tribune
The Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) and Georgetown County Fire/EMS recently teamed up to test the feasibility of conducting an MRI scan in the back of a moving ambulance. The goal, according to MUSC, was to “cut down the steps that need to happen between the time a stroke patient is wheeled through the ambulance bay until the treatment can begin. - PUB DATE: 1/6/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WSPA-TV CBS 7 Spartanburg
The DeLand Fire Department has been awarded a sapling from the 9/11 Survivor Tree.
The sapling has been planted on the southwest side of the new DeLand Fire Station 81 at 343 W. Howry Ave.. The 343 address number represents the 343 firefighters who were killed on 9/11.
Each year, saplings from the 9/11 Survivor Tree are awarded to communities that have faced significant hardship. - PUB DATE: 1/6/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The West Volusia Beacon
It's been an incredibly difficult day for Philadelphia and for firefighters who responded to a deadly duplex fire on Wednesday morning.
"I'm not doing well at all. I mean personally, I have a job to do, this is what we do, but we are human beings just like everybody else," said Captain Derek Bowmer, the executive chief of the Philadelphia Fire Department. - PUB DATE: 1/6/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WPVI-TV ABC 6 Philadelphia
Atlanta firefighters will get new washers, dryers and furnishings thanks to an anonymous donor gifting $150,000 to the Atlanta Fire Rescue Foundation’s Fire Station Fund.
This most recent contribution is the largest ever in the history of the Fire Station Fund and will give four Atlanta Fire Rescue Stations in the neighborhoods of Buckhead and Southwest Atlanta the resources to make improvements and upgrades to the interiors of the fire rescue stations. - PUB DATE: 1/6/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Northside Neighbor
A section of a wall collapsed in Lincoln County just feet away from where firefighters were battling an early morning blaze Tuesday.
The Winfield-Foley Fire Department responded to the house fire around 7 a.m. in the 500 block of Highway Y. The fire caused the front stone veneer wall to collapse and nearly strike one of the firefighters. - PUB DATE: 1/5/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KTVI-TV FOX 2 St. Louis
As many as 4 million drivers are about to become safer, thanks to an over-the-air software update Stellantis will send to their vehicles — at no cost — in January.
The Jeep, Ram, Dodge and Fiat and Alfa Romeo vehicles will receive alerts when they near an emergency vehicle with its flashers lit. The feature, called the Emergency Vehicle Alert System (EVAS), will initially be available in North America, but Stellantis could roll it out across the 14 brands the automaker sells around the world. - PUB DATE: 1/5/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Detroit Free Press - Metered Site
