Authorities on Thursday identified the three people killed in a house explosion that rocked a suburban Indiana neighborhood and damaged nearly 40 homes.
Meanwhile, officials were still investigating the cause of Wednesday's blast. Initially, Evansville Fire Department Chief Mike Connelly said the explosion was accidental but later retracted that sentiment, explaining the state fire marshal would lead the probe to determine a cause. - PUB DATE: 8/12/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: USA Today
PHOTOS: In a nondescript warehouse outside of Atlanta, nestled among the office parks and chain restaurants that pepper suburban America, AT&T is preparing for catastrophe. This is one of the company's Network Disaster Recovery (NDR) sites, a place where a volunteer group of AT&T workers can test and train on equipment that can quickly spin up connectivity when a local office is destroyed. - PUB DATE: 8/12/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: EnGadget
Nearly a half-century after arson killed 32 people in a New Orleans gay bar, the City Council has renewed the search for the remains of four victims, including three who were never identified.
The UpStairs Lounge burned on June 24, 1973, killing 31 men, including two whose mother died with them, and injuring another woman and 14 men. - PUB DATE: 8/12/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WWL-TV CBS 4 New Orleans
The Milwaukee Fire Department has opened the door for more people to become firefighters. Milwaukee Fire Chief Aaron Lipski said the change is a long time coming.
The Milwaukee Fire Department can now hire anyone who is legally hirable, whether they’re a United States citizen or not. Chief Lipski said the department can benefit from more diversity, people who are multilingual and anyone who wants to serve their community. - PUB DATE: 8/12/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WITI-TV FOX 6 Milwaukee
It’s the deadlier than fire, on-the-job danger every firefighter faces - cancer. The CDC has found cancer is now the leading cause of death among firefighters, and the World Health Organization has now defined firefighting as a cancer-causing profession.
In May 2021, News 13 debuted its investigative documentary Deadlier than Fire, focusing on the need for presumptive worker’s compensation benefits for North Carolina firefighters diagnosed with cancer. - PUB DATE: 8/12/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WLOS-TV ABC 13 Asheville
Nearly 200 first responders are on scene after a five-alarm fire ripped through a Metro East recycling center. The fire was reported around 10 a.m. Wednesday on Fox Industrial Drive in Madison, Illinois. Heavy black smoke was seen across the area as flames shot out of the Interco building. Workers were inside recycling batteries, Madison Mayor John Hamm III said. - PUB DATE: 8/11/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KMOV-TV CBS 4 St. Louis
PHOTOS: The 911 call came in about an elderly man who had fallen outside a storage facility in central Phoenix. The fire crew, who are also paramedics, found 80-year-old Noel laid on his back on the concrete ramp under direct sunlight; he was weak, thirsty and very hot.
Noel, an Englishman with diabetes and hypertension, had been moving furniture when his legs gave way. - PUB DATE: 8/11/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Guardian
VIDEO: January’s deadly vacant rowhome fire along south Stricker Street rocked Baltimore City to its core.
Three firefighters were killed and another was injured that day, and since then the cries for change have grown louder.
Now, a new report from Maryland Occupational Safety and Health reveals the possible failures that may have put the firefighters in danger. - PUB DATE: 8/11/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WBFF-TV FOX 45 Baltimore
VIDEO: After 150 years of service the De Pere fire department has gone through many large changes.
Despite these changes, the department uses its history to prepare for the future.
"We always grow from the big events we have to get a little bit better," said battalion chief Brett Jansen. A technological advancement that is a far cry from the humble beginnings of the fire department back more than a century ago. - PUB DATE: 8/11/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WGBA-TV NBC 26 Green Bay
Two people escaped the burning wreckage of a small plane that crash-landed Tuesday afternoon on the 91 Freeway in Riverside County.
The single-engine Piper PA-32 flying to Corona Municipal Airport went down at about midday on the eastbound 91 Freeway in Corona and might have struck at least one vehicle, according to the Corona Fire Department. - PUB DATE: 8/10/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KNSD-TV NBC 7 San Diego
A Florence County paramedic and a motorcyclist she was treating at the scene of a crash were killed Tuesday night in a series of events that unfolded in the 2700 block of Pamplico Highway.
Paramedic Sara Kinsy Weaver, 32, of Florence, and Cedric Antonio Gregg, 37, also of Florence, died after a vehicle crossed the median at a high rate of speed and hit several first responders who were working at the scene of the initial crash, Coroner Keith von Lutcken said. - PUB DATE: 8/10/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WSPA-TV CBS 7 Spartanburg
On Tuesday, Aug. 16, Nord will head out on his KTM 890 Adventure R, an on and off-road motorcycle, for a trek across the country – down to Tennessee and North Carolina, then west to Oregon and back.
He will follow the TransAmerica Trail, described as "the cross-country adventure ride of a lifetime with mostly off-pavement travel. - PUB DATE: 8/10/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Patriot Ledger - Metered Site
PHOTOS: The entrance to Pride Park in Taylor Mill will soon be the home to a special monument honoring Firefighters from three different volunteer departments no longer in existence: Forest Hills, Winston Park and Taylor Mill.
Most of the monument is ready. The last thing to go in will be the statue. - PUB DATE: 8/10/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Link NKY
A Lexington transformer exploded Monday afternoon, sparking a three-alarm fire and sending those in the area running for cover, according to Lexington Fire Department.
“I saw this big poof of smoke and then boom, big orange fireball,” said witness Alexandra Schweitzer.
The explosion happened just before 6:00 p. - PUB DATE: 8/9/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WHDH-TV ABC 7 Boston
With firefighter shortages emerging in Bedford County, one man decided he wanted to get involved in the action, regardless of his age.
Rusty Mansel recently received his “Firefighter 1” course completion certificate at the age of 67 from the Virginia Department of Fire Programs and the Virginia Fire Services Board, all with no prior firefighting experience. - PUB DATE: 8/9/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WFXR-TV FOX 27 Roanoke
VIDEO: A Detroit firefighter was trapped for hours as other firefighters rushed to get him out after a home collapsed.
No major injuries were reported. Detroit firefighters believed they were dealing with a suspected serial arsonist.
The same crew had been called to three vacant houses on West Hollywood Avenue just that week. - PUB DATE: 8/9/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WDIV-TV NBC 4 Detroit
PHOTOS: In a garage near Littlerock sits the second firetruck to ever be used by Olympia firefighters, among other decommissioned trucks, gear and most importantly, a couple dozen firefighters who have worked to create this makeshift museum.
Retired firefighters continued to trickle in throughout the late morning. - PUB DATE: 8/9/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Chronicle
A massive fire burns down an old manufacturing building in Chickasha.
Chief Tony Samaniego with the Chickasha Fire Department estimates 1.5 million gallons of hand sanitizer fueled the fire at the Chickasha Manufacturing Building on Sunday. The intense flames and black billowing smoke drew a crowd.
“They were tall, they were big, and they were hot,” said Alicia Musshafen, who lives nearby. - PUB DATE: 8/8/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KWTV-DT CBS 9 Oklahoma City
VIDEO: The Ground Zero 9/11 Flag Team was in Northampton Sunday, making an appearance in western Mass. just before the flag’s retirement.
The flag is set to retire on November 2, the anniversary of when it was removed from Ground Zero. Sunday, first responders, bikers and more gathered to reflect and remember. - PUB DATE: 8/8/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WGGB-TV ABC/FOX/My Network 40 Springfield
VIDEO: With one on each arm, eyewitness video showed a Denver firefighter rescuing two children from flood waters Sunday evening.
The rescue was just one of several at this location along at a flood-prone underpass at 38th and Blake. The video showed a firefighter going into the floodwaters where a vehicle was nearly submerged and coming out with two children as people recorded cell phone video along the interstate. - PUB DATE: 8/8/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KMGH-TV ABC 7 Denver
