VIDEO: The Tulsa Fire Department (TFD) has updated their physical ability test for any candidate who wants to be a part of the department.
It’s a test of physical and mental strength, and it must be passed before candidates can move on to the interview portion of the process.
Up until January 2022, TFD did a candidate physical ability test of its own, but now the Oklahoma State Firefighter’s Pension Board requires every department in the state to align with these tests. - PUB DATE: 12/21/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KOKI-TV FOX 23 Tulsa
PHOTOS: It was May 22, 2:00 p.m., I'm 9 years old, waiting on a Thursday afternoon for the school day to end. I've lived my whole— short —life in Lakewood, a new suburb incorporated in 1954. There are square miles of the same kind of neighborhood in every direction.
I rode my bike to school and will ride it back. - PUB DATE: 12/21/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KCET-TV PBS 28 Los Angeles
The Mobile Fire-Rescue Department will be the first in the state to have a “portable, handheld, ultrasound system,” in their ambulances, according to a release from the MFRD.
The department is partnering with Butterfly Network. The digital health company introduced the Butterfly iQ+ which is a “portable, handheld, ultrasound system that is designed to provide emergency, medical providers with real-time, internal visualizations of patients; thus, forever changing out-of-hospital patient care. - PUB DATE: 12/21/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WKRG-TV CBS 5 Mobile
VIDEO: A Harford County woman convicted of setting a town home on fire, killing four people, was sentenced to life in prison Tuesday.
Bobbie Sue Hodge was convicted of setting a deadly fire to a three-story Edgewood house along Simons Ct. back on May 9, 2019 around 2:30 a.m.
Three people on the top floor did not survive. - PUB DATE: 12/21/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WJZ-TV CBS 13 Baltimore
VIDEO: Two people were hospitalized Monday morning after swimming to shore to escape a massive fire that destroyed several boats near a marina in Hollywood.
Hollywood Police said officers arrived at the scene at 700 Polk Street in the middle of North Lake just before 1:30 a.m. after reports of at least three boats in flames. - PUB DATE: 12/20/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WTVJ-TV NBC 6 Miami
VIDEO: A tractor-trailer hit a fire engine on Monday while crews were on the scene of a crash on Interstate 85, according to the Greensboro Fire Department.
No one was inside Engine 61 when it was hit.
No one was hurt, including the driver of the tractor-trailer.
The fire truck was heavily damaged, but crews were able to drive it back to the fire station. - PUB DATE: 12/20/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WGHP-TV FOX 8 High Point
A Buffalo firefighter returns to work this week after he settled his wrongful termination lawsuit with the City of Buffalo and the fire department, which terminated him in 2021 for testing positive for cannabis despite being a registered medical patient.
Scott Martin, an Air Force veteran who served two tours in the Middle East, was a Buffalo EMT and firefighter for over a decade, when he got suspended in December 2020 for testing positive for cannabis on a random workplace test. - PUB DATE: 12/20/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WIVB-TV CBS 4 Buffalo
PHOTOS/VIDEO: The block parties and judging contests in the SF Fire Department holiday decoration contest are scheduled for Wednesday, and these five SF Fire stations are decked out with gushers of yuletide razzle-dazzle that you won’t want to miss.
The last two holiday seasons have harked and heralded back to the late 1940s, as in that era, an old-time holiday decorations contest lit up San Francisco Fire Department stations all over town. - PUB DATE: 12/20/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: SFist
Fire crews in Maple Grove knocked down a large fire early Sunday morning that burned at a building belonging to a soil supplier.
The Maple Grove Fire Department was called just after 4:30 p.m. for a report of a fire at a campground on Brockton Lane North. However, when crews arrived they determined the fire was actually burning at a building belonging to a soil supplier called Commercial Black Dirt Inc. - PUB DATE: 12/19/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KMSP-TV FOX 9 Minneapolis
The Unified Fire Authority's newest station in Midvale was designed with mental health in mind.
Station 125, located at 655 W. Center Street, not only features private rooms and bathrooms for firefighters working long hours, but also larger common rooms.
Capt. Kelly Millard said those areas will help to build a sense of connection throughout his team. - PUB DATE: 12/19/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KSL-TV NBC 5 Salt Lake City
VIDEO: Thirty-six people were injured Sunday, including 11 seriously, when a Hawaiian Airlines flight from Phoenix to Honolulu hit severe turbulence about 30 minutes before landing.
The turbulence sent passengers flying out of their seats.
Paramedics and emergency medical technicians treated patients — ranging in age from 14 months to adults — for a long list of injuries, including serious head injuries, cuts, bruises, nausea, and loss of consciousness. - PUB DATE: 12/19/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Hawaii News Now
Matt Greer of Brookhaven was driving home from his shift at the Mississippi Center for Emergency Services, where he works as a flight nurse, when he got a call from his younger sister. A few days earlier, she had given birth to a healthy baby girl after an uncomplicated pregnancy. Now, she told him she had a headache. - PUB DATE: 12/19/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Mississippi Today
Multiple departments battled a massive fire in Dillsboro, Indiana, Thursday evening.
According to officials, the fire started around 4:35 p.m. on U.S. 50 at Laughery Valley AG, a farming co-op. Area residents said the plant usually closes around 4:30 every day.
More than 10 fire departments have responded to the scene. - PUB DATE: 12/16/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WLWT-TV NBC 5 Cincinnati
PHOTOS: Two city firefighters make history as they become the first women to be appointed as fire investigators in the history of the Buffalo Fire Department. City fire leaders, firefighters, and firefighter families gathered at ECC's downtown campus Thursday afternoon to celebrate a round of promotions and appointments. - PUB DATE: 12/16/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WKBW-TV ABC 7 Buffalo
First responders face traumatic experiences and emergencies everyday.
“Those sights and sounds stick with us throughout our life, so the more those build up, the more sometimes it starts to wear on us,” said Northern Wake Fire Dept. Chaplain and Firefighter Lauren Deer.
When Deer came back from her first fatality call, she didn’t know how to handle it. - PUB DATE: 12/16/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WNCN-TV CBS 17 Goldsboro
“We have a distinguished, prestigious, and proud fire department, which is visible in the heroic actions of our firefighters every single day,” Mayor Steven Fulop said at the ceremony.
“Being a firefighter is a difficult job and I want to thank the 21 new firefighters as you raise your hand today and take the Oath of Office to join the best fire department in the state. - PUB DATE: 12/16/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Hudson County View
VIDEO: Firefighters in Deltona, Florida made a special visit Thursday to the home of a boy they helped deliver 11 years ago. Susan Rubi credits the paramedics for saving her son Jacks' life after she unexpectedly went into labor at 26 weeks.
"Doing what they did especially as fast as they did we wouldn’t have had him today," she said. - PUB DATE: 12/16/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WOFL-TV FOX 35 Orlando
A building collapsed after a fire sparked Thursday morning in northwest Oklahoma City.
The fire started at a building in the 2400 block of Northwest 40th Street, near Interstate 44 and Pennsylvania Avenue. When crews arrived, they found heavy flames coming from the building. The building has since collapsed, and crews firefighters are working to put out the flames. - PUB DATE: 12/15/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KOCO-TV ABC 5 Oklahoma City
The Baltimore City Fire Department began a pilot program Monday to assign senior officers to assistants responsible for making numerous fire scene decisions.
Dubbed “battalion technicians,” the assistants aim to assist firefighters with tasks that can become overwhelming in an emergency, such as: B. - PUB DATE: 12/15/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Local Today
VIDEO: As North Texans prepared for severe weather and heeded tornado warnings Monday night, Gov. Greg Abbott issued a familiar directive.
“The State of Texas has resources ready for swift deployment, and we are fully prepared to address any potential severe weather expected to impact communities across our state,” the governor announced Monday afternoon. - PUB DATE: 12/15/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KXAN-TV NBC 36 Austin
