Ariana Grande and Justin Bieber’s lockdown-inspired single, “Stuck With U,” has now raised over $3.5 million for the First Responders Children’s Foundation, going directly to thousands of first responders’ families around the U.S.
The single, which released on May 8, 2020, was recorded in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and donated 100% of its profits from streaming and sales to the foundation. - PUB DATE: 8/4/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Variety
In a scary scene on a crowded Chicago expressway this past weekend, a motorcycle crash ended in a blaze of flames.
What happened was brazen, risky, and illegal – to select three relevant adjectives. And CBS 2’s Charlie De Mar spoke Monday with a woman who got trapped in the middle of the mess. The motorcyclists didn’t perform their stunts on closed roads or a professional course Saturday afternoon – they did it right on the Stevenson Expressway. - PUB DATE: 8/3/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WBBM-TV CBS 2 Chicago
PHOTOS: On this day more than four decades ago, an inferno at a Sheepshead Bay supermarket claimed the lives of six firefighters — and today, as in years past, the first responders’ friends and families convened at St. Brendan’s Roman Catholic Church on Avenue O to commemorate the occasion and remember those who paid the ultimate sacrifice that fateful day. - PUB DATE: 8/3/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Brooklyn Paper
VIDEO: A fire truck crashed with another car en-route to a call, causing the back cab of the truck to crash into a building. The impact injured a firefighter who was steering the back end of the truck at the time.
There were terrifying moments Outside Riggs Real Estate in Stockton early Monday morning. - PUB DATE: 8/3/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KOVR-TV CBS 13 Sacramento
With the COVID-19 Delta variant spreading and moving fast in Texas, first responders are once again getting infected.
Dallas Fire-Rescue and the Dallas Fire Fighters Association reported Monday that 31 members of the department are now quarantined due to the virus.
Per DFFA, 21 firefighters as of Monday have active cases, and 10 others have had recent exposure to the virus. - PUB DATE: 8/3/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WFAA-TV ABC 8 Dallas
VIDEO/PHOTOS: The driver of a fuel tanker truck was killed after, authorities said, the vehicle fell off a ramp on Interstate 595 in Davie and exploded.
Florida Highway Patrol and Davie Fire Rescue units responded to the scene of the crash near the Florida Turnpike, at around 3:45 p.m., Sunday.
Investigators said the driver was heading westbound when he struck the concrete wall on the right shoulder and flipped over. - PUB DATE: 8/2/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WSVN-TV FOX 7 Miami
About a dozen local firefighters are about to embark on a long journey to mark the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.
“We got 42 days until 9/11,” said Batt. Chief Buck Buchanan, a retired LA County firefighter. “I’d really like to see a groundswell of patriotism come back.” Buchanan helped organize the cross country bike ride that got underway Sunday at the Santa Monica Pier and was expected to take 40 days to reach New York. - PUB DATE: 8/2/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KCAL-TV CBS 2 Los Angeles
PHOTOS: The rambling stone clubhouse at Elks Country Club along the Kankakee River northeast of Aroma Park was engulfed by flames on the morning of Dec. 5, 1968.
Ironically, the building was destroyed less than 24 hours after serving as the site of a banquet honoring the man who had been the club’s golf pro for the preceding 20 years. - PUB DATE: 8/2/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Daily Journal - Metered Site
Firefighters doused the blaze before it tore through the rest of the building, but the damage was done.
The Violet Street apartment fire late Tuesday drove 10 people — six of them children — out of house and home.
A few days later, another apartment erupted in flames.
This time, a few miles northward, just off Plank Road and south of Highway 190 in Baton Rouge, where firefighters again beat it back before it could spread and before it could hurt anyone. - PUB DATE: 8/2/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Advocate
The term "hero"‘ is a well-worn term these days, but the final actions of Firefighter Thomas Royds seem to fit the bill.
As an alleged drunk driver hurdled towards first responders at the scene of an auto accident on Interstate 76 in Lower Merion early on the morning of July 24 Royds, covering a shift at Belmont Hills Fire Co. - PUB DATE: 8/2/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Mainline Media News
VIDEO: Three Honolulu aircraft rescue firefighters are talking for the first time about their role in helping save two pilots earlier this month after engine failure caused their Boeing 737 cargo plane to crash in the ocean off Kalaeloa.
On July 2, the pilot of Transair Flight 810 to Kahului alerted air traffic control it was headed back to Honolulu’s airport because of an in-flight emergency. - PUB DATE: 7/30/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Hawaii News Now
VIDEO: When tragedy or disasters strike, first responders rush to the scene — often putting their own lives in danger.
Now there's a renewed focus in Boston to make sure that when emergency personnel head home, the traumatic images they witness on the job don't have dangerous or potentially deadly impacts on their mental well-being. - PUB DATE: 7/30/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WCVB-TV ABC 5 Boston
VIDEO: The U.S. Navy said Thursday that charges have been filed against a Navy Sailor who is accused of starting the July 2020 fire that destroyed the warship while it was docked in San Diego.
According to Cmdr. Sean Robertson, U.S. 3rd Fleet spokesperson, the evidence collected during the investigation is sufficient to direct a preliminary hearing for the sailer who was a member of Bonhomme Richard’s crew at the time of the fire. - PUB DATE: 7/30/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KFMB-TV CBS/CW 8 San Diego
VIDEO: Instead of wearing shorts and swimsuits, teens are in heavy fire protection gear at a special summer camp on Long Island this week.
They’re learning what it takes to become volunteer firefighters amid a national firefighter shortage, CBS2’s Carolyn Gusoff reported Thursday. Camp Fahrenheit 516 is named for the blazing heat campers encounter while training as the next generation of volunteer firefighters. - PUB DATE: 7/30/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WCBS-TV CBS 2 New York
Twenty years after the devastating attacks on September 11, doctors are still uncovering the fallout from the destruction of the World Trade Center. In a new study, researchers at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York have discovered a link between the toxic dust coming from Ground Zero and liver damage. Their findings show that the earliest first responders on the scene have an even higher risk of fatty liver disease than others in the area after the terror attacks. - PUB DATE: 7/30/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: StudyFinds.org
VIDEO/PHOTOS: A fire that officials say started from welding sparks destroyed a house in Hurricane on Wednesday afternoon and for a time threatened Hurricane Middle School and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ seminary building. There were no injuries and by 4:58 p.m., the fire was contained. - PUB DATE: 7/29/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: St. George News
When Jeff Bowen was growing up in Southern California he would walk home from school by a fire station.
One day, after the 6-year-old did not come home, his mother, Laurel Bowen, said she went looking for him at the station where she knew some of the firefighters. A captain pointed her inside.
"He said, 'You know he stops every day to talk to us. - PUB DATE: 7/29/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Citizen Times - Metered Site
Last week at a media conference Vice Admiral Roy Kitchener, the commander of US Navy warships, outlined the actions that have been taken since the Bonhomme Richard caught fire in San Diego last year… and he has completely missed the point.
“We found that in some cases maybe we weren’t doing as well as we should have,” Kitchener told US Naval Institute editor Sam LaGrone. - PUB DATE: 7/29/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: gCaptain
A year and a half into the COVID-19 pandemic, the world looks a lot different than it used to. And so does the coronavirus itself. As it’s infected hundreds of millions of people around the globe, the SARS-CoV-2 virus has been in a state of constant change, making small tweaks to its genetic code as it goes along. - PUB DATE: 7/29/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Spectrum News 1
VIDEO: An underground explosion engulfed a Queens sidewalk, sending flames shooting several feet into the air and injuring a man who happened to be standing on the grate at the precise wrong moment, surveillance video exclusively obtained by NBC New York showed.
Barry West was walking along Farmers Boulevard in St. - PUB DATE: 7/28/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WNBC-TV NBC 4 New York
