VIDEO: A new device for the Crescent Township Fire Department will help to search and rescue as well as search and recovery efforts go quicker. It’s a drone for underwater.
The fire department will be one of the first in our area to have a remote operating vehicle like this for the water.
“Just about anything underwater and you want to see if you can find it,” Crescent Township Volunteer Fire Department President John Kriger said. - PUB DATE: 10/19/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KDKA-TV CBS 2 Pittsburgh
On Friday afternoon, someone stole a flag, designed to honor fallen firefighters, from a Middletown fire engine.
By Saturday night, thousands of people across the state and across the country knew about the theft, thanks to a deftly written and slightly sarcastic Facebook post by the firefighters' union. - PUB DATE: 10/19/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WTIC-TV Fox 61 Hartford
On Oct. 17, 1966, 12 firefighters were killed in what was the deadliest day for the New York City Fire Department until the 9/11 terror attacks. Two chiefs, two lieutenants, and eight firefighters lost their lives as they tried to battle a fire at 22nd Street by entering a building on 23rd Street before it collapsed. - PUB DATE: 10/19/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: New York Daily News - Metered Site
VIDEO: Seven people were taken to the hospital after a boat explosion and fire on the south fork of the New River early Thursday afternoon.
One of those patients had to be airlifted to Ryder Trauma Center at Jackson Memorial’s burn unit with burns to over 40 percent of the body.
Chopper 4 over the burning boat spotted firefighters shooting a stream of water at it from shore as it drifted near a sea wall at 2001 SW 20th Street. - PUB DATE: 10/16/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WFOR-TV CBS 4 Miami
VIDEO: One first responder in North Sioux City, South Dakota is using his creative skills to give back to his brothers and sisters in the department.
Firefighter and emergency medical crew member Joe Pham got inspired to create his own Thin Red Line flag to hang inside the North Sioux City Fire Department. - PUB DATE: 10/16/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KTIV-TV NBC/CW+ 4 Sioux City
When you think about how technology is enabling remote government work, what comes to mind? Online city council meetings, or enhanced portals for renewing your driver’s license or paying taxes? What about firefighting?
While most emergency responders cannot work fully remote due to the nature of their job, they can access the same benefits of unified collaboration tools to quickly connect with stations and seamlessly communicate with other first responders. - PUB DATE: 10/16/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: American City and County
An 11-year-old girl from Morris Township is showing just how far one small act of kindness can go.
It all started as a service project through Callie Danysh's Cub Scouts, a project to honor a local hero. But with the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, the assignment was put on hold.
That's when "Flags of Gratitude" was born. - PUB DATE: 10/16/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: New Jersey News Network
The National Transportation Safety Board says the U.S. is woefully unprepared to deal with EV fires, which require different strategies than gasoline vehicle fires.
31 percent of fire departments don't train for EV fires, and half say they don't have special protocols in place to deal with EVs after a crash, the agency's report found. - PUB DATE: 10/16/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Car and Driver
On Wednesday morning, Tracy Williams, the assistant fire chief for the Westview-Fairforest Fire Department in Spartanburg County, joined other firefighters from across the state at the South Carolina State Fire Academy for a ceremonial bill signing for a law that will support firefighters in the state diagnosed with cancer. - PUB DATE: 10/15/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WIS-TV NBC/CW 10 Columbia
VIDEO: Before the age of two-way radios, police and fire call boxes could be found on numerous corners across the District of Columbia. The first installations of these boxes began as early as the 1860s.
Firefighter call boxes were connected to a central call station and emergency responders would receive a telegraph of which box to dispatch to. - PUB DATE: 10/15/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WUSA-TV CBS 9 Washington, D.C.
San Diego agreed this week to pay $3.4 million to more than 700 city firefighters to compensate them for underpaid overtime they should have received several years ago.
The payout comes six months after the city reached a similar legal settlement with more than 2,300 other city workers for the same kind of underpaid overtime. - PUB DATE: 10/15/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The San Diego Union-Tribune - Metered Site
Coronavirus cases have been rising in Illinois and many of its surrounding states this fall as health experts brace for a second wave during flu season, and while testing numbers could play a large role in the increased numbers, there's another factor that may be contributing to the spike: the return to school at colleges and universities in the Midwest. - PUB DATE: 10/15/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WMAQ-TV NBC 5 Chicago
Being a firefighter isn’t what they do, it’s who they are.
“It is just something once you start doing it you continue and continue and it builds within you,” said Wayne Cosner. “Either you are going to get in and be in here a couple of years and, BOOM, you are gone, or it grabs hold of you and you become loyal to the system and it becomes a way of life for you. - PUB DATE: 10/15/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Richmond Times-Dispatch
A massive fire destroyed an apartment complex under construction Wednesday morning in west Harris County. At least one firefighter was injured.
Flames turned the morning sky orange just before sunrise. Heavy smoke could be seen from miles away.
Two four-story apartment buildings were leveled by the 3-alarm fire off the Grand Parkway near Katy. - PUB DATE: 10/14/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KHOU-TV CBS 11 Houston
VIDEO: Every year, local fire departments and KSBY team up to visit elementary schools across the Central Coast for the Burn Relay to teach kids fire safety and prevention.
Due to COVID-19 and distance learning, the Burn Relay couldn't happen last week so firefighters with the Atascadero Fire Department got creative instead. - PUB DATE: 10/14/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KSBY-TV NBC/CW+ 6 San Luis Obispo
When residential fires happen at night while families are sleeping, deaths are more likely to occur. Smoke alarms are important for preventing these deaths, yet research has shown that many pre-teenage children don't wake up to traditional high-frequency tone alarms. Researchers from the Center for Injury Research and Policy and the Sleep Disorders Center at Nationwide Children's Hospital conducted a series of studies to identify smoke alarm signals that would more effectively awaken children and other members of the household in the event of a fire. - PUB DATE: 10/14/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Medical Express
VIDEO: For the first time in the United States, a robotic firefighting vehicle was used Tuesday to battle a major emergency fire in downtown Los Angeles, officials said.
The fire broke out in a textile business and spread to an adjacent building, and more than 130 firefighters extinguished the flames and prevented them from spreading further. - PUB DATE: 10/14/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KCBS-TV CBS 2 Los Angeles
VIDEO: Doctors will say some of the most painful recoveries come in the burn unit.
A Detroit firefighter just lived through a recovery and he has a unique perspective. He’s in charge of the department’s clown team that works to cheer up child burn victims. Firefighter Mark Taylor went inside a burning vacant home to see if there was anybody inside and that’s when the roof collapsed on him. - PUB DATE: 10/14/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WDIV-TV NBC 4 Detroit
VIDEO: A Riverside family's Halloween decor is so realistic that multiple people have made emergency phone calls summoning firefighters to the home.
To say Carmen and Travis Long love Halloween is an understatement.
They began creating their "Pirates of the Caribbean"-themed creation three years ago. - PUB DATE: 10/13/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KABC-TV ABC 7 News Los Angeles
VIDEO: In his 15 year career as a firefighter, Lt. Stephen Curry with Roanoke Fire-EMS has never seen anything like the fire that happened on Bullitt Avenue in southeast Roanoke over the weekend.
A fire broke out around 5:45 on Saturday morning at a vacant house on the 700 block of Bullitt Avenue. As the fire burned through the structure, it started to collapse. - PUB DATE: 10/13/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WSLS-TV NBC10 Roanoke
