Tanya Crabbe has been with the Los Angeles Fire Department for 12 years and a paramedic for four.
Crabbe says the job has its challenges, but our current COVID-19 surge has her hanging on by a thread.
"It's a tremendous amount of pressure. I only have so many resources with my knowledge and experiences and certifications and my equipment, but if the hospital is unavailable, I just don't have the resources that that patient may need," said Crabbe. - PUB DATE: 1/6/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KABC-TV ABC 7 Los Angeles
Lowcountry authorities arrest a man accused of intentionally coughing on a Burton firefighter.
Shawn Patterson faces charges of assault and battery, and a violation of county ordinance on outdoor burning.
The firefighters were investigating a report of an unlawful fire on Patterson’s property. According to documents, Patterson told firefighters to “get off his damn property. - PUB DATE: 1/6/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WSAV-TV NBC/CW+3 Savannah
VIDEO: An Albuquerque fire crew is being recognized for saving two lives. In mid-December, the crews of Station 16 and Battalion 3 responded to a house fire near Academy and Wyoming.
As they were battling the fire, members of the team also went inside the smoke-filled home, found the couple who lived there and brought them out to safety. - PUB DATE: 1/6/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KRQE-TV CBS/FOX 13 Albuquerque
Personnel safety is Hillsborough County Fire Rescue's highest priority. So they're getting new equipment to make sure crews are protected.
The newest addition to firefighter safety in their cars are Active Air Purification Systems.
Hillsborough County Fire Rescue is installing 63 of them in fire trucks, ambulances, ladder trucks and other vehicles. - PUB DATE: 1/6/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WTSP-TV CBS 10 Tampa
Due to the pandemic, the city of Oakland is facing a huge $62 million budget deficit this year. So far, one of the proposed cuts drawing the most heat is to the Fire Department.
With all the revenue it’s lost during COVID-19, Oakland has some difficult choices to make.
Mayor Libby Schaaf and City Administrator Ed Reiskin sent a letter to city employees last month saying without massive cuts, “…the General Purpose Fund will be insolvent before the end of the fiscal year… Even the City’s emergency reserve will be completely exhausted. - PUB DATE: 1/5/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KPIX-TV CBS 5 San Francisco
The Baltimore City Fire Department said history was made in 2020 as the department recorded its lowest number of fire fatalities in the history of the department, according to Fire Chief Niles R. Ford.
Reaching a historic low, the department confirmed that there were only seven fire fatalities in 2020. - PUB DATE: 1/5/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WBAL-TV NBC 11 Baltimore
For want of $500 in repairs, the Porter County Courthouse was destroyed by fire on Dec. 27, 1934.
It was a spectacular fire that changed the face of downtown Valparaiso.
Firefighters from as far as Gary and LaPorte raced to Valparaiso to fight the fire. A LaPorte firefighter’s face was frozen while driving the firetruck without a windshield in subzero weather. - PUB DATE: 1/5/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Northwest Indiana Times (nwitimes.com) - Metered Site
PHOTO: Nineteen-year-old owner/operator Dylan Mercier is waiting to get his unique Mack Vision out on the road.
The St. Anne, Ill., firefighter and owner/operator purchased the 2005 truck with his dad, Ralph, a little over a year ago, and it didn’t take long for his vision to become a reality.
“I purchased a firefighter costume for the Mack bulldog on the hood, and after that, I knew what needed to be done,” Mercier said. - PUB DATE: 1/5/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Fleet Equipment Magazine
VIDEO: An evening fire heavily damaged an 11-unit apartment complex Monday in Muskegon.
The involved apartment building is located at 1850 Valley Street, where Porter School was once located. Firefighters on scene said the fire started on the first floor and then spread up the stairs.
According to a Facebook post from the Muskegon Professional Firefighters Unit, crews had water pressure issues while fighting the flames. - PUB DATE: 1/5/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WZZM-TV ABC 13 Grand Rapids
VIDEO: A strip mall in Moreno Valley is partially destroyed after a fire broke out late Friday night. The fire started around 11:30 p.m. on Friday at Indian Street and Sunnymeade Blvd and fire crews spent several hours battling the flames.
As firefighters were working, part of the second story collapsed. - PUB DATE: 1/4/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KCBS-TV CBS 2 Los Angeles
VIDEO: Most everyone would agree 2020 was a dumpster fire.
A town thought that a dumpster fire was, in fact, the perfect way to say farewell to the past year.
“Tonight, we’re basically just saying bye to 2020 in a different way,” Fire Chief Brett Ruff said.
“Tonight we are having a literal dumpster fire in Belen,” Mayor Jerah Cordova said. - PUB DATE: 1/4/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KGNS-TV NBC/ABC 8 Laredo
The United States started 2021 they way it ended 2020: Setting new records amidst the coronavirus pandemic.
The country passed the 20 million mark for coronavirus cases on Friday, setting the mark sometime around noon, according to Johns Hopkins University’s COVID-19 tracker. The total is nearly twice as many as the next worst country – India, which has 10. - PUB DATE: 1/4/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WebMD
They say one man's trash is another's treasure.
Three homes on High Street in downtown Macon went up in flames on a Wednesday night in 2019, sending five firefighters to the hospital.
"It was a house under renovation that wasn't being occupied and it was a pretty bad fire. It totaled that house. It totaled this house," said Andrew Eck while pointing to the remnants of a downtown Macon home. - PUB DATE: 1/4/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WMAZ-TV CBS/CW+ 13 Macon
Chicago-area industrialist George F. Getz Jr. and his wife, Olive Atwater Getz, were driving through Wilmette, Illinois, when they saw a broken-down fire truck on the side of the road.
George casually remarked he would like the 1924, Type 12 American La France fire engine. Considering the Globe Corp. - PUB DATE: 1/4/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: San Tan Sun News
VIDEO: Las Vegas Fire & Rescue was battling a massive 2nd-alarm fire at a tire shop near Meadows Lane and Decatur Boulevard Wednesday afternoon.
SKY 3 appeared to show the structure fully engulfed as of 4:45 p.m. and fire officials called a second-alarm due to the extensiveness of the blaze.
Authorities believed employees at the Econo Lube N Tube were working on a fuel tank on a vehicle when they dropped the tank, causing the fire to quickly spread. - PUB DATE: 12/31/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KSNV-TV NBC 3 Las Vegas
PHOTOS: Dayton's newest mural stretches an entire city block and tells the history of the city’s Fire Department.
It starts at the corner of Main and Buckeye Streets, then runs down Buckeye, all the way to Dayton Fire Station Number Eleven.
For this long mural, Tiffany Clark used classic comic book style, borrowing from mid-century versions of Spiderman and the Fantastic Four. - PUB DATE: 12/31/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WYSO-FM 91.3
A new poster and fact sheet from NIOSH are designed to help educate firefighters about the unique nature of row house fires and how to stay safe when fighting these blazes.
Row houses are dwellings connected by shared sidewalls that form a single building. The resources outline typical features of exterior and interior row houses, tactics for fighting fires in these locations, and common areas where fires may spread. - PUB DATE: 12/31/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Safety+Health
VIDEO: Union County Sheriff’s Deputy Chris Castrogiovanni, a former NYPD officer, was at the scene of 9/11.
“I had been looking at those buildings my whole life so to see what happened was just, it’s so surreal,” Castrogiovanni said.
Castrogiovanni worked in and around Ground Zero for about seven weeks and then again during the holiday season that year. - PUB DATE: 12/31/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WSOC-TV ABC 9 Charlotte
PHOTOS: North Beach Volunteer Fire Department (NBVFD) is pleased to announce the arrival of an iconic piece of the department’s history. In 1947, the department took delivery of an FMC John Bean high pressure pumper built on a KB International chassis. The truck served the Twin Beaches communities for a number of years before being sold and lost track of. - PUB DATE: 12/31/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Southern Maryland News Net
VIDEO: Large piles of scrap metal caught fire at an Opa-locka recycling plant, sending heavy plumes of smoke into the sky.
The firefight, which began around 4:30 p.m. Tuesday at Trademark Metals Recycling Plant, stretched well into the evening. Firefighters said because of the metal that is burning, these type of fires take a long time to put out. - PUB DATE: 12/30/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WPLG-TV ABC 10 Miami
