Roswell Fire Department (RFD) wants 12 new hires this July so they can build their staff back up to capacity.
For what may be the first time ever, the RFD is hosting open tryouts on July 8 from 7-11 a.m. at the Louis Jones Training Center. The RFD is doing open tryouts in an attempt to take the anxiety out of the testing process and is hoping to diversify the force. - PUB DATE: 6/28/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Roswell Daily Record - Metered Site
After being closed to traffic for 12 days, the damaged section of Interstate 95 through Philadelphia reopened Friday. A tanker truck fire beneath the interstate on June 11 caused one bridge to collapse and left another heavily damaged.
Federal, state, and local entities combined to push for reopening the stretch of the interstate as quickly as possible by backfilling the area which had collapsed. - PUB DATE: 6/28/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: HDT Truckinginfo
PHOTOS: A longtime captain with the Nashville Fire Department is going above and beyond the call of duty.
Captain Tony Murrell has dedicated 19 years to serving the Nashville community, but his mission goes further than that. In 2020, Murrell donated his kidney to his sister after watching her endure nightly dialysis treatments for two long years. - PUB DATE: 6/28/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WZTV FOX 17 Nashville
VIDEO: A building on the campus of a southeast Charlotte prep school was destroyed by a three-alarm fire Monday night, officials said.
Charlotte firefighters responded to a fire at Charlotte Preparatory School on Boyce Road a little before 11 p.m. When firefighters arrived, they saw heavy smoke and flames coming from the building. - PUB DATE: 6/27/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WCNC-TV NBC 36 Charlotte
Hundreds of safe e-bike and scooter charging and storage stations will soon be installed across New York City’s public housing buildings as a way to prevent battery fires. Mayor Eric Adams, Sen. Chuck Schumer, and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand on Sunday announced plans to install 173 outdoor stations at 53 NYCHA developments starting next year, with a total of 327 stations planned. - PUB DATE: 6/27/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: 6sqft
VIDEO: Firefighters have a new tool for rescues in rural areas of northern Santa Barbara County.
Fire Station 21 in Old Town Orcutt has a new UTV which can be used to quickly reach injured hikers or anyone trapped in a remote area.
Every second counts when someone’s injured and trapped in a hard-to-reach location. - PUB DATE: 6/27/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KSBY-TV NBC/CW+ 6 San Luis Obispo
Pennsylvania has just over 1,800 registered fire departments.
Nearly all – 98.6 percent to be exact – are registered volunteer or mostly volunteer departments with the Keystone State ranking third in the country behind Delaware and Minnesota.
Those who volunteer with their local companies in their local communities are heroes in almost every sense of the word. - PUB DATE: 6/27/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Politics PA
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Monday warned of the return of locally acquired cases of malaria, meaning the infections were not linked to foreign travel and appear to have been transmitted by mosquitoes in the U.S. carrying the parasite.
So far, there have been four locally acquired cases of malaria in Florida and one in Texas within the last two months. - PUB DATE: 6/27/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: CBS News
PHOTOS: Part of a shopping center in the Poconos was reduced to rubble after an intense fire on Sunday.
The middle section of the Promenade at Fountain Court in Monroe County is now just twisted metal, charred wood and debris. Multiple businesses were lost. Neighbors from around the Tannersville area gathered to see what was left. - PUB DATE: 6/26/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WFMZ-TV 69 Allentown
VIDEO/PHOTOS: A Licking Township fire truck was struck while on the scene of a crash on Interstate 70 early Saturday.
At 1:30 a.m., rescue and medical vehicles were responding to a crash on I-70 eastbound at mile marker 137. Fire officials say those involved in the collision were not injured so the medic left the scene. - PUB DATE: 6/26/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WBNS-TV CBS 10 Columbus
Federal regulators want first responders to know exactly what they are dealing with before reaching the scene of a train derailment, because the dangerous chemicals trains carry might require a specialized response. The Pipelines and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration proposed a new rule last Wednesday that would require all railroads to immediately send the details of everything aboard their trains to every emergency responder within 10 miles, as soon as the railroad becomes aware of an accident. - PUB DATE: 6/26/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Spectrum News 1 - Metered Site
VIDEO: With the scorching summer here, Valley firefighters are not only battling fires but the oppressive heat while doing so. “When we are dealing with 110 degrees, and a fire kicks out, we are asked to act,” said Captain Dave Folio with the Scottsdale Fire Department.
Captain Folio said part of the role of their command during the Valley summer is to make sure their own firefighters don’t succumb to the heat. - PUB DATE: 6/26/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KTVK-TV CBS 3 & KPHO-TV CBS 5 Phoenix (AZ Family)
An intense fire erupted at a rubbish yard and spread into commercial-residential buildings, sending a thick plume of smoke billowing into the sky in downtown Los Angeles Thursday afternoon.
LAFD crews responded near San Pedro and Seventh streets around 3:10 p.m. Nearly 150 firefighters battled the massive commercial fire near Skid Row. - PUB DATE: 6/23/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KABC-TV ABC 7 Los Angeles
The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) has released a new report, “Fatal Firefighter Injuries in the U.S. in 2022”, which showed a total of 96 on-duty U.S. firefighter fatalities in 2022. Of these deaths, 51 were volunteer firefighters, 38 were career firefighters, six were contractors for federal or state land management agencies, and one was a full-time federal land management employee. - PUB DATE: 6/23/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Sierra Sun Times
The legacy of Darien-EMS Post 53 is a long one for many of the teenagers who staff it.
“Growing up in Darien, you've known what Post is since you were a little kid,” 15-year-old Marin Nehro, a first-year volunteer, said. “Most of the people in here have wanted to do it for a really long time.”
For the past 53 years, teenagers like Nehro have provided the town of Darien with much of its emergency medical service, helping deliver babies, navigate a global pandemic and provide lifesaving care to their community. - PUB DATE: 6/23/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Darien Times - Metered Site
VIDEO: For a second year in a row, the Horry County Fire Rescue team was designated as a Fire Safe South Carolina community.
Fire Safe South Carolina is a Palmetto state original. The program is not only designed to teach the public how to stay safe, but to also get firefighters into the communities they serve. - PUB DATE: 6/23/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WMBF-TV NBC 32 Myrtle Beach
VIDEO/PHOTOS: A hailstorm rained down on people attending a concert at Red Rocks Wednesday night. Large hail stones pummeled concertgoers just before 9:30 p.m., sending seven people to the hospital. That was before performer Louis Tomlinson took the stage, and the concert had to be canceled.
"It started like an instant. - PUB DATE: 6/23/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: CBS News
A massive fire at a North Side apartment complex has sent two people to the hospital and forced more than a dozen others out of their homes early Thursday morning, according to the San Antonio Fire Department.
The fire was called in just before 3 a.m. at the ICON Apartments in the 1300 block of Patricia Drive, not far from both Blanco Road and Churchill High School. - PUB DATE: 6/22/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KSAT-TV ABC 12 San Antonio
Chitvan Killawala and Umer Bakali want to help protect firefighters from a potential threat.
Their strategy to do so does not involve creating a better forcible-entry axe or a thicker face shield but deploying a device no bigger than a USB flash drive.
The two University of Miami graduate students have developed a special sensor capable of detecting the real-time presence of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in the warm zone at structural fires. - PUB DATE: 6/22/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: University of Miami
As warehouses continue to pop up in western Hancock County, local fire departments are sounding the alarm. The firefighter’s union said they simply don’t have the staff to fight fires at those massive buildings.
At 2.2 million square feet, a brand-new Walmart distribution center in western Hancock County is the largest in the world. - PUB DATE: 6/22/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WXIN-TV FOX 59 Indianapolis
