A 15-year-old boy faces a murder charge in the fatal shooting of a retired Chicago firefighter earlier this month outside a Morgan Park popcorn shop.
The teen, who is not being identified because he is charged as a juvenile, was unarmed at the time of the shooting. He was with two other people who had guns when they confronted 65-year-old Dwain Williams Dec. - PUB DATE: 12/18/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Chicago Sun Times - Metered Site
VIDEO: Instead of Dasher, Dancer, and Prancer, a retired Redding firefighter has created his own handmade reindeer display in honor of first responders.
Patrick Westrip created the eight not-so-tiny reindeer out of cardboard and paper-mâché and painted blankets on each one to honor different first responders such as firefighters, law enforcement, and medical workers. - PUB DATE: 12/18/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KRCR-TV ABC 7 Redding
One person is dead, two paramedics injured after a shooting Thursday morning in Pine Bluff. Officers were dispatched to the 1400 block of West 23rd Avenue at 4:30 a.m. and discovered the two paramedics suffering from gunshot wounds.
According to Pine Bluff investigators a third individual, 22-year-old Kevin Curl Jr. - PUB DATE: 12/18/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KARK-TV NBC 4 Little Rock
VIDEO: Fire trucks made at Rosenbauer USA, just north of Sioux Falls, are now featured in a new video game– and the company is giving away 250 free downloads this holiday season.
Firefighting simulator The Squad just launched on Steam in November.
This new worldwide video game features fire trucks made right here in South Dakota. - PUB DATE: 12/18/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KELO-TV CBS 11 Sioux Falls
Crews extinguished a large fire that gutted a commercial building in Chatsworth Wednesday night.
The flames were reported around 9:50 p.m. at a one-story building at 20150 Sunburst St., the Los Angeles Fire Department said in an alert.
The structure houses Arizona Pipeline Co., fire officials said. - PUB DATE: 12/17/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KTLA-TV 5 CW Los Angeles
PHOTOS: Floyd Guenther wanted cereal.
It was early Dec. 21, 2019, about 4 a.m. Quiet. Many of his neighbors at the Alpine Motel Apartments were asleep.
Nothing seemed unusual as he headed for the corner store, closing up his third-floor room and walking down a narrow hallway toward the building’s front stairwell. - PUB DATE: 12/17/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Las Vegas Review Journal - Metered Site
Columbus police and fire divisions this week have welcomed their most diverse recruitment classes in recent years, the city Department of Public Safety reported.
Forty-five new Columbus police recruits and 35 new city fire recruits began working toward careers as first responders this week.
Nineteen members of the Division of Police recruitment class are female or non-white, representing about 42% of the entire class. - PUB DATE: 12/17/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Columbus Dispatch
First responders are asking drivers to slow down after a crew in Allegheny County was almost hit by a truck sliding on snow covered roads.
Collier Township EMS posted the video to Facebook Wednesday as a reminder for drivers to use caution if they need to be out and about.
Officials say crews were on scene of a minor crash and were checking on the occupant for injuries when a truck came sliding into one of their emergency vehicles nearly hitting one of them. - PUB DATE: 12/17/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WJAC-TV NBC/CW+ 6 Johnstown
The state's first Safe Haven Baby Box was unveiled in front scores of residents, law enforcement and fire officials, as well as politicians and well-wishers at the southeast corner of the newly built fire and police building in Ocala.
The occasion, attended by Monica Kelsey, founder and CEO of the Safe Haven Baby Box and Linda Znachko, founder of He Knows Your Name, was to let people know that a parent can leave a child in a safe environment. - PUB DATE: 12/17/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Ocala StarBanner
The Canton Fire Department shared a video on Facebook of their crews responding to a fire at a warehouse Tuesday. The fire broke out at 2206 12th St. NE around 4:30 p.m.
A plume of smoke could be seen hundreds of feet in the air.
According to the Canton Fire Department, people could see the smoke from miles away. - PUB DATE: 12/16/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WJW-TV FOX 8 Cleveland
As the COVID-19 vaccine begins to be available in the United States, the federal government largely has left distribution up to the states. One of the biggest challenges facing states is to decide who should receive the vaccine first. The IAFC has developed a chart which lists the priority tier to which firefighters and EMS personnel have been assigned in each state. - PUB DATE: 12/16/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: IAFC.org
An 18-year effort to get Flagler County to recognize former county firefighter John R. Keppler’s line-of-duty death in 2002 finally ended Monday evening with the county commission’s decision to rename the fire rescue training facility on Justice Lane after Keppler.
Until then, Keppler had been honored on two state memorials, including the the Florida Fallen Firefighter Memorial in Ocala, the Florida’s Fallen Firefighters Memorial on the grounds of the state Capitol, and the national firefighters’ memorial in Emmitsburg, Md. - PUB DATE: 12/16/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Flagler Live
The Muskegon County "Yellow Dot" program started small in 2019 with money from Mercy Health and took a big step forward in 2020 with additional funding from the Muskegon County Senior Millage.
But due to COVID-19, police and fire departments around Muskegon County weren't able to hold open houses and community safety events to introduce community members to Yellow Dot. - PUB DATE: 12/16/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WZZM-TV ABC 13 Grand Rapids
VIDEO: A mother and her two young daughters rescued two weeks ago from a two-alarm fire at their home in Boston's South End were reunited with their heroes Tuesday.
"Thank you so much Boston fire for your help and bringing my family to safety," Alicia Soto told her rescuers.
On the morning of Dec. 2, thirty-one-year Soto and her two children, Annabelle and Amelia, were trapped in their third-floor apartment on West Newton Street when a fire broke out. - PUB DATE: 12/16/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: NECN-TV NBC 10 Boston
An elaborate ornamental frame encloses a dramatic scene of everyday life in mid eighteenth-century New York: in the image we witness a volunteer company laboring to extinguish a fire at an unidentified location. Without access to the sorts of hydrants that are a common feature of today’s cityscape, a line of men passes buckets of water from hand to hand, a team effort that is memorialized both in the name of the company (Hand-in-Hand Fire Company) and in the emblem of a disembodied handshake that graces the top of the frame. - PUB DATE: 12/15/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Gothamist
As a boy, Robert Weber chased the blazing lights and roaring sirens of fire engines down the streets of Brooklyn, New York.
He hung out at the Engine 247 firehouse, eating ham heroes with extra mayonnaise, and “learning everything about everything to be the best firefighter in the world,” said his wife, Daniellle Weber, who grew up next door. - PUB DATE: 12/15/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Kaiser Health News
VIDEO: It was a hot weekend for local firefighters. City and county crews were dispatched to dozens of fires all over Kern. Those fires cost families their homes and local business owners, their livelihoods. The Rea family was sound asleep as this fire engulfed their home on Franklin Avenue in East Bakersfield. - PUB DATE: 12/15/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KGET-TV NBC/CW+ Bakersfield
PHOTOS: The Lorenzo Volunteer Fire Department accepted a $16,300 grant through the Rural Volunteer Fire Department Assistance Program to help convert an excess military Stewart Stevenson truck into a firefighting vehicle.
The Texas A&M Forest Service administers the assistance program and the Department of Defense Firefighter Property Program, which awarded Lorenzo VFD with the truck. - PUB DATE: 12/15/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Lubbock Avalanche-Journal
PHOTOS: A retired, 29-year Middletown firefighter and WWII veteran marked his 102nd birthday this weekend in style, with a large vehicle parade and a visit from several state and local officials.
John Cyrulik Sr.’s family decorated his front yard, and bundled him up in a blanket under a tent on the cold, rainy Saturday afternoon. - PUB DATE: 12/15/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Middletown Press
VIDEO: As others were desperately trying to get to safety, a local man is being honored for taking action to make sure they could on Friday. And his actions may be why a bad situation didn't become much worse.
Officials said William Cox was among the first on the scene when a fire broke out at Fairington Village Apartments in Stonecrest on Friday afternoon. - PUB DATE: 12/14/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WXIA-TV NBC 11 Atlanta
