The Chicago fire academy is closed until further notice after an apparent COVID-19 outbreak impacting both students and instructors.
Officials said they are working to determine the source of the outbreak at the Robert J. Quinn Fire Academy, located at 558 W. De Koven Street in the South Loop. It's not clear how long the building will be shut down. - PUB DATE: 8/18/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WLS-TV ABC 7 Chicago
New York City firefighters disarmed a stabbing suspect inside a firehouse in Queens Monday.
Daniel Gomez, 27, was arrested and charged with assault after he was accused of stabbing a 26-year-old man in the leg Monday morning.
Officials say FDNY Squad 288 encountered the victim and brought the man into the firehouse in Maspeth for treatment. - PUB DATE: 8/18/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WABC-TV ABC 7 New York
Another day of dead marine life surfacing in Biscayne Bay as the swath of suffocated fish appears to be spreading.
On Saturday, members of Miami-Dade Fire Rescue went out on the water to help the animals breathe. The effort was coordinated by Miami Waterkeeper after reaching out to Port Miami for use of their fireboats. - PUB DATE: 8/18/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WPLG-TV ABC 10 Miami
VIDEO: No injuries were reported Tuesday after a fire damaged a tank at a Pasadena refinery.
The fire was reported about 5:45 a.m. in an oil tank on the northeast corner of the property at Pasadena Refining Systems.
According to Bill Stephens, a spokesman for Chevron, the fire was extinguished about 6:30 a. - PUB DATE: 8/18/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Click 2 Houston
Facing mounting outrage over its decision to cancel the Tribute in Light, the 9/11 Memorial and Museum has backed down and agreed to stage the beloved display on the 19th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.
“In the last 24 hours we’ve had conversations with many interested parties and believe we will be able to stage the tribute in a safe and appropriate fashion,” CEO Alice Greenwald said in a statement. - PUB DATE: 8/17/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: New York Post
The Shreveport Fire Department unveiled a new duty uniform t-shirt Friday to promote COVID-19 safety measures. Mayor Adrian Perkins joined Shreveport Fire Chief Scott Wolverton and Willis Knighton Health System Senior Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer Brian Crawford to unveil the new t-shirt, which is printed with messages on the back reminding people to mask up when in public, wash up at least 20 seconds, and keep up with current CDC guidelines. - PUB DATE: 8/17/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KTAL-TV NBC 6 Shreveport
PHOTOS: Raised on blocks to ease stress on the wooden wheels, the 111-year-old Union steam pumper traveled 50 miles Saturday on a flatbed truck from Shenandoah, Schuylkill County, to Reading.
The crew transporting the 1909 pumper stopped in Leesport to weigh it before bringing it to the Reading Area Firefighting Museum at Fifth and Laurel streets. - PUB DATE: 8/17/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Reading Eagle
The Jan. 11 crash that killed two Lubbock first responders remains an open investigation as detectives await critical information from an out of state laboratory that was temporarily closed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Lubbock police spokesman Lt. Leath McClure said investigators expect to have the information soon as the the lab hopes to reopen next week. - PUB DATE: 8/17/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Lubbock Avalanche-Journal
Nearly six full months after leaving the track in an ambulance following one of the most horrifying accidents in recent memory, NASCAR veteran Ryan Newman made his return to the Daytona International Speedway on Sunday for the Cup Series' Go Bowling 235. And before he took the green flag for his first laps on the speedway's Road Course, he took a moment to offer a thank you to those who worked to make sure he could eventually walk away and race again. - PUB DATE: 8/17/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: 247 Sports
It was the worst of the worst. Good young men. Running for their lives. Nowhere to hide. The fire was relentless.
This month marks the 83rd memorial anniversary of the worst forest fire disaster in Wyoming history when it comes to loss of firefighter lives.
In an obscure and difficult place to reach called Blackwater, a group of forest rangers and Civilian Conservation Corps firefighters lost their lives on Aug. - PUB DATE: 8/14/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Cowboy State Daily
When everyone who tests positive for coronavirus in your community gets a call from a public health worker asking them about their contacts, and those contacts are then asked to quarantine, that can be a powerful way to keep the virus from spreading.
But contact tracing can do more than that: At scale, the data gathered in those calls also offers vital information about where transmission is happening in a community. - PUB DATE: 8/14/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: National Public Radio
VIDEO: Prankster Stephen Gilchrist Glover, better known as Steve-O, was removed from a Hollywood billboard to which he taped himself Thursday.
Glover posted a selfie on Instagram, showing several layers of what appears to be black tape covering his body from his armpits to his thighs. Video of him being removed from the billboard showed he only wore what appeared to be white underwear underneath the tape. - PUB DATE: 8/14/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KCAL-TV CBS 9 Los Angeles
A Lebanon firefighter who was injured in an explosion at a hotel on Christmas Eve morning last year is telling what happened.
Capt. Jeffrey Egner was one of two firefighters who were injured in an explosion at the Element Hotel in Lebanon on the morning of Dec. 24. According to the Lebanon Fire Department, they received an alarm just after 5:15 a. - PUB DATE: 8/14/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WPTZ-TV NBC 5 Plattsburg
Eric Retterbush has never liked taking photos of people. The practice feels invasive and risks overlooking the beauty of, say, a wheelbarrow or a particularly striking façade, he says. It also teeters on voyeurism. How many in the throng of a bustling Burmese market—one of the countries he works in as a travel guide (his day job)—have been photographed without their permission? Wasn’t it Honoré de Balzac who said all physical bodies were made of ghostlike images, “an infinite number of leaflike skins laid one on top of the other,” and repeated exposure to a camera stripped these—that is, the very essence of life—off?
No—street photography, candid portraiture, a shot of someone who doesn’t know you—it was never Retterbush’s pull. - PUB DATE: 8/14/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Arizona Daily Sun
A firefighter narrowly missed what could have been a dangerous situation.
Sacramento Fire crews responded around 2:15 a.m. Thursday to deal with a pickup truck that caught fire near the intersection of Beloit Drive and Main Avenue
During the firefight, one of the tires on the truck exploded right in front of a firefighter. - PUB DATE: 8/13/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KOVR-TV CBS 13 Sacramento
the wake of last September’s explosion in Farmington, which was caused by a gas leak and claimed the life of Farmington Fire Department Captain Michael Bell and injured several others, Governor Janet Mills announced Wednesday that her administration has purchased gas detection meters for twenty fire departments across Maine. - PUB DATE: 8/13/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WCSH-TV NBC 6 Portland
The large overnight fire in Durham may bring back memories of a similar one three years ago in Raleigh. During the historic Raleigh fire, flames spread to nine buildings – it was a much bigger fire.
Many people are asking: Why did the Raleigh fire expand so much farther and cause so much more damage than the Durham fire?
Sandy Kromenacker, a fire expert in Raleigh, compared this Durham fire to the memorable downtown Raleigh fire in 2017, saying, "Both properties were under construction. - PUB DATE: 8/13/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WRAL-TV NBC 5 Raleigh
In a town where nearly everyone lives in the same building, COVID-19 has emerged.
The Prince William Sound community of Whittier, where around 85% percent of its 280 year-round residents live in the 14-story Begich Towers building, now has six positive resident cases among a family there, according to Jim Hunt, Whittier city manager. - PUB DATE: 8/13/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Anchorage Daily News - Metered Site
VIDEO: A historic building in Uptown in Kenosha that houses several businesses and apartments was the scene of a massive fire early Wednesday morning.
The fire, which was called in just before 8 a.m., apparently started at the Music Outlet, 6217 22nd Ave., according to Kenosha Fire Chief Charles Leipzig. - PUB DATE: 8/13/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Kenosha News
Mayor Lori Lightfoot has cut a one-year deal with the Chicago Firefighters Union that includes $95 million in back pay but would nearly double employee health care contributions.
One union official said rank-and-file members are “not happy” about the hike in health care costs, though the contract also maintains treasured union perks and outdated staffing requirements that cost taxpayers millions. - PUB DATE: 8/12/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Chicago Sun Times - Metered Site
