PHOTO: The Santa Fe Fire Department and the Kiwanis Club have given Old Man Gloom a new role — putting out fires instead of burning in them.
For nearly a century, the giant marionette officially known as Zozobra has burned to the ground every year at Santa Fe’s Fort Marcy park, turning people’s collected glooms to ash. - PUB DATE: 7/3/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Santa Fe New Mexican - Metered Site
Flames towered above a South Los Angeles store early Saturday when a fire burned for more than an hour at the two-story structure.
Firefighters were called at about 1:30 a.m. to the 4100 block of S. Broadway and 41st streets. Heavy smoke was billowing through the roof of the Best Bargain store and there were signs of possible structural collapse, forcing firefighters to battle the fire from the outside. - PUB DATE: 7/3/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KNBC-TV NBC 4 Los Angeles
PHOTOS: Fire crews could be seen battling massive flames at an abandoned warehouse along the 4700 block of Rittiman Road on Thursday night.
SAFD Chief Charles Hood said no one appeared to be hurt in the fire, which sparked shortly before 9 p.m. and drew a response of nearly 40 units. A cause has not yet been determined. - PUB DATE: 6/30/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KENS-TV CBS 5 San Antonio
VIDEO: The Seattle Fire Department (SFD) and Seattle City Light are rolling out a new Energy Response Unit to address electrical fires in substations and underground faults.
The unit includes 44 firefighters specifically trained to fight energy-related fires, a new rig with 11,000 pounds of carbon dioxide and 600 feet of hose line. - PUB DATE: 6/30/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KING-TV NBC 5 Seattle
VIDEO: In firehouses like the St. Petersburg Fire Rescue Master Station, there's rarely a dull moment.
So it shouldn't surprise you that firefighter Chris Gordon's response number has a few zeroes behind it after 24 years on the job.
"I'm going to ballpark maybe, 8 or 9,000 calls I've been on," he said. - PUB DATE: 6/30/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WFTS-TV ABC 28 Tampa
VIDEO/PHOTOS: The Willard Fire Department has been donating its old fire hoses to the Dickerson Park Zoo for a few years.
Fire hoses are required to pass a pressure test for use. If they fail, they are used for training purposes or are disposed of. The Dickerson Park Zoo asked Willard Fire if they could have the unused fire hoses and Willard Fire said yes. - PUB DATE: 6/30/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WDAF-TV FOX 4 Kansas City
VIDEO: The FDNY made a major bust earlier this week while inspecting for illegal lithium-ion batteries.
So far this year, the batteries have caused fires that have killed more than a dozen people, including four last week.
Officials told CBS New York what they uncovered this week in Chinatown was a ticking time bomb. - PUB DATE: 6/30/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WCBS-TV CBS 2 New York
St. Louis City firefighters battled a huge fire overnight at an old north city Catholic Church that was turned into an indoor skate park. The fire was so intense that the embers spread to a building two blocks away.
What's left of the old St. Liborius Church is ‘Sk8 Liborius,’ on the Hogan and North Market streets, until the huge fire gutted the building overnight. - PUB DATE: 6/29/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KTVI-TV FOX 2 St. Louis
PHOTOS: The anniversary of American independence has added significance this year for the Friends of Engine 64 Inc., a nonprofit that now owns the Hahn pumper that Chestertown Volunteer Fire Company put in service on July 4, 1983.
What is known as Six-Four served Chestertown until 2010, when it was donated to a fire company in Brierfield for what would be a decade of added service for several communities in rural Alabama. - PUB DATE: 6/29/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Kent County News - Metered Site
A dramatic water rescue unfolded in real time Wednesday afternoon in the Passaic River in Garfield, and CBS New York brought it to you live on television and online.
With the Passaic River roaring around them, two first responders stood knee-deep in their Clifton Fire dingy.
"It's thrilling, but not so much for the poor guys that are in the river," witness Bernard Gustafson said. - PUB DATE: 6/29/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WLNY-TV CBS 55 Riverhead
Panama City Beach in Florida is now the deadliest in the U.S. so far in 2023 after three more deaths this past weekend.
Despite double red flag warnings, which mean no swimming is allowed in the Gulf, heavy rip currents led to the three drownings and dozens of rescues. National Weather Service statistics show that Panama City has had seven rip current-related deaths in the past nine days, more surf zone fatalities than any other beach in the U. - PUB DATE: 6/29/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Hill
VIDEOS: New 911 calls are painting a dire picture in the moments leading up to the massive fire in SouthPark last month.
It happened at a construction site not far from Charlotte’s SouthPark Mall. Two construction workers died in the fire. That massive blaze was considered a five-alarm fire, meaning hundreds of firefighters were called to the scene. - PUB DATE: 6/28/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WBTV CBS 3 Charlotte
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
