For the past 24 years in Haskell, Texas, Steel Fire Apparatus has been transforming trucks into firefighting machines. “But we take it and add the bed, the tool boxes, the pump, the water,” Wes Steele, owner, said. But before they’re ready to fight brush fires, everything starts with Wes designing the truck on the computer based on a fire department’s needs.
- PUB DATE: 11/6/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KRBC-TV NBC 9 Abilene

Four firefighters and an off-duty Boston police officer were injured when a Boston Fire Department vehicle crashed into a bank less than a mile away from a fire scene early Thursday morning. The fire truck crashed into a Bank of America around 2:26 a.m. at the intersection of Talbot Avenue and Washington Street in Dorchester.
- PUB DATE: 11/5/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: NECN-TV NBC 10 Boston

The remains of Los Angeles firefighter Francisco “Frank” Aguilar, who went missing in Mexico in August, have been found after a monthslong investigation, officials announced Wednesday. The Baja California central state prosecutor said the badly burned body was found on Oct. 23 in a desolate field in Rosarito, according to Border Report, an online news source from KTLA parent company Nexstar.
- PUB DATE: 11/5/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KTLA-TV WB 5 Los Angeles

Some call it controversial, others call it a life saver. In time for the onset of a second wave of the coronavirus, an all-women’s EMS service in Brooklyn is finally getting an ambulance after overcoming naysayers in the city who tried to prevent it from happening. As CBS2’s Lisa Rozner reported, 4-month-old Sarah Richter sleeps peacefully, even in the pouring rain.
- PUB DATE: 11/5/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WCBS-TV CBS 2 New York

The new Fire Station 8 facility was built on a site that had a doublewide trailer as a temporary station. The new, permanent main station has 14 bunk rooms, a kitchen and dining area, offices, an exercise room, a day room with chairs and a TV, a gear locker room and four garage bays. For the firefighters of Station 8, it goes beyond just a place to come to work.
- PUB DATE: 11/5/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Business Observer

VIDEO: Heidi Charest of Lady’s Island had the slightest of leads in the finals of the Firefighting Combat Challenge World Championships in Irving, Texas, two weeks ago. Her focus turned to keeping that lead as she dragged a 175-pound mannequin across the finish line. “Just keep moving,” she told herself.
- PUB DATE: 11/4/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Island Packet - Metered Site

When USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD-6) caught fire at the pier over the summer, sailors from across the waterfront rushed to the scene, some in damage control teams from their own ships and some showing up as individuals who wanted to help. Though the five-day firefighting effort became very organized, the first minutes were confusing: it was a Sunday morning, when most of the Bonhomme Richard crew and leadership weren’t around, and disparate people who knew how to fight fires but hadn’t trained on how to fold in together in an organized way rushed to the scene.
- PUB DATE: 11/4/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: USNI News

Crews battled massive flames at a home in Schuylkill County. Fire ripped through the home in the 1100 block of West Center Street in West Mahanoy Township just after 10:30 p.m. Monday. Emergency officials said it was a single family home, but no one was hurt. Crews were at the scene for several hours battling the flames.
- PUB DATE: 11/4/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WFMZ-TV 69 Allentown

Firefighters love their job, but it comes with hazards that not only threaten their physical safety, but also their emotional and mental well-being. Responding to hundreds of emergency related calls each year exposes firefighters and other first responders to a tremendous amount of trauma, from deadly car accidents and house fires to medical calls.
- PUB DATE: 11/4/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Tallahassee Democrat

Over 44 million people have contracted the novel coronavirus as of Oct. 28, according to the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center. About 1.2 million have died. As this pandemic rages across the globe and irrevocably changes more and more lives, its impact becomes increasingly difficult to visualize: 1.
- PUB DATE: 11/4/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Stacker

Nobody who lives or works in the vicinity of downtown Rochester needs a watch to know when it’s lunchtime. Six days a week, at high noon, the blast of the fire department’s siren marks the midday hour. However, the daily sounding of the noon whistle has nothing to do with signaling a meal break and everything to do with a devastating fire that nearly destroyed an iconic Main Street business.
- PUB DATE: 11/3/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Rochester Media

Nobody who lives or works in the vicinity of downtown Rochester needs a watch to know when it’s lunchtime. Six days a week, at high noon, the blast of the fire department’s siren marks the midday hour. However, the daily sounding of the noon whistle has nothing to do with signaling a meal break and everything to do with a devastating fire that nearly destroyed an iconic Main Street business.
- PUB DATE: 11/3/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Rochester Media

A San Francisco firefighter was in critical condition Monday after hitting his head while at the scene of a high-rise fire, the fire department said. The injury happened after firefighters responded to a fire at 55 Spear St., San Francisco Fire Department Lt. Jonathan Baxter said. "As this incident was resolving, a Muni bus from SFMTA was driving through the incident operational area.
- PUB DATE: 11/3/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KNTV NBC 11 San Jose

VIDEO: A Seymour gas station is a total loss after it went up in flames Monday afternoon. Seymour Volunteer Fire Department Chief John Linsenbigler says crews were called to the scene at the Seymour Speedway Market on Highway 411 just before 12:45 p.m. Linsenbigler says everyone inside made it out of the business, and no injuries were reported.
- PUB DATE: 11/3/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WATE-TV ABC 6 Knoxville

Four minutes, 57 seconds. Five minutes, 13 seconds. Sixteen minutes, 30 seconds. They add up to minutes and seconds. But when that time is spent on a 911 call during an emergency, it's not as inconsequential. "If somebody is down there having a heart attack, minutes count. Seconds count," New Lexington Fire Chief Jim Fain said.
- PUB DATE: 11/3/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Zanesville Times Recorder

Nobody who lives or works in the vicinity of downtown Rochester needs a watch to know when it’s lunchtime. Six days a week, at high noon, the blast of the fire department’s siren marks the midday hour. However, the daily sounding of the noon whistle has nothing to do with signaling a meal break and everything to do with a devastating fire that nearly destroyed an iconic Main Street business.
- PUB DATE: 11/3/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Rochester Media

VIDEO: Neighbors in Meadowmere Park first heard the explosion around 6 a.m. Meadowmere Park Fire Chief Kevin Carrero lives in the neighborhood and woke up to the noise. "It was like a big explosion, like a bomb went off. I thought it was a transformer that blew up but it was just too loud," Carrero said.
- PUB DATE: 11/2/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WNBC-TV NBC 4 New York

A copper time capsule, placed 101 years ago behind a granite cornerstone at the downtown fire station, was opened by firefighters Friday. The copper box contained a hand-signed ledger of the fire crew at the time, news clippings, a penny and mementos from a fireman's ball with the York, Maine, Fire Department.
- PUB DATE: 11/2/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Sea Coast Online - Metered Site

A new video shows San Antonio firefighters rescuing several riders stuck on a rollercoaster at SeaWorld. SAFD crews were called out to SeaWorld, located at 10500 Sea World Drive on the far West Side, around 1 p.m. Sunday. The riders were reportedly stranded on SeaWorld’s Wave Breaker rollercoaster. The video shows firefighters utilizing a high-extension ladder to reach the riders and get them down safely.
- PUB DATE: 11/2/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KSAT-TV ABC 12 San Antonio

After 72 years of putting out fires, responding to crashes and helping out in medical emergencies, the largely volunteer-run town of Madison Fire Department flickers out Sunday. The city of Madison Fire Department officially takes over fire protection responsibilities for town residents at midnight on Sunday in preparation for the eventual dissolution of the town of Madison in two years.
- PUB DATE: 11/2/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Wisconsin State Journal