VIDEO: KGUN 9 spotlights a different local non-profit on the first Wednesday of every month. With Wildfires so prevalent in our region, this month we're focusing on the Greater Tucson Fire Foundation.
It's the latest installment of The Giving Project—Doing Well, by Doing Good.
The Foundation exists to support the needs of the firefighting community, providing firefighters and their families with health and wellness services. - PUB DATE: 6/2/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KGUN-TV ABC 9 Tucson
The FOX 8 I-Team has found more and more local first responders training for a new way to get medical help more quickly to victims of a gunman on a rampage.
The plan revolves around sending ambulance crews into scenes right behind the first officers.
While the officers search for the gunman, the paramedics search for victims. - PUB DATE: 6/2/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WJW-TV FOX 8 Cleveland
Now that summer has (unofficially) arrived, the calendar of cool stuff to do outdoors in Boston is suddenly packed. That is certainly the case on the Harbor, where party boat and island ferry season is now in full force, the ICA Watershed is open, and a cliff diving competition in the Seaport is just around the corner. - PUB DATE: 6/2/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Boston Magazine
VIDEOS: A fire at a chemical production plant in downtown Omaha burned Monday night into Tuesday morning.
KETV NewsWatch 7 drone footage and Google Earth images show the damage to the Nox Crete facility, located near 20th and Center streets. The first call for help at the facility came at 6:53 p.m., according to Battalion Chief Scott Fitzpatrick. - PUB DATE: 6/1/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KETV ABC 7 Omaha
VIDEO: Vandals destroyed the Homewood Acres volunteer firehouse over Memorial Day weekend – and the break-in happened in broad daylight.
The discovery was made days later, and the vandals were kids caught on camera.
As CBS 2's Marissa Perlman reports, the firehouse at 3860 183rd St. in the unincorporated community of Homewood Acres was left looking like a tornado had ripped through it. - PUB DATE: 6/1/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WBBM-TV CBS 2 Chicago
Firefighters are in the middle of a sleep study being conducted by the University of Wisconsin-Superior’s Health and Human Performance Department. The goal of the study is to improve firefighter health.
Smart watches worn by Superior crew members 24 hours a day, seven days a week are gathering data about their heart rate, blood pressure and sleep patterns at home and on the job. - PUB DATE: 6/1/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Superior Telegram - Metered Site
The Junction City Fire Department is hoping to stop bullying starting with schools in Boyle County.
Firefighters said after incidents in their own community and now the tragedy in Texas, the department is hoping to change lives, one student at a time.
It is called “Firefighters Against Bullies.” The program was started in Pennsylvania by a group of firefighters hoping to draw awareness to schools and to build an anti-bullying program. - PUB DATE: 6/1/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WDKY-TV FOX 56 Danville
It was the single biggest loss of life in the history of the Houston Fire Department.
Nine years ago, the Southwest Inn fire ultimately claimed the lives of five firefighters. The four firefighters who died on the scene were Robert Bebee, Robert Garner, Mathew Renaud, and Anne Sullivan.
In March 2017, Captain Bill Dowling, who lost both of his legs in the fire, died of complications from the injuries sustained in the line of duty. - PUB DATE: 6/1/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KTRK-TV ABC 13 Houston
PHOTOS: As thick black smoke visible from miles away billowed above a chemical fire in downtown Omaha on Monday night, fire officials recommended residents in the nearby area evacuate.
Omaha Fire confirmed in a report Monday night that a fire broke out in an industrial building near 20th Street and Woolworth Avenue a few minutes before 7 p. - PUB DATE: 5/31/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WOWT-TV NBC 6 Omaha
For years, Albuquerque Fire Rescue has honored Memorial Day by completing the CrossFit “Murph” Challenge.
KOB 4 was at the AFR Training Academy early Monday morning to get an inside look at the annual tradition and to learn more about the national hero the workout is named after. “When you’re suffering, try to remember those that take care of us,” said Christopher Epley, captain of training at the AFR Training Academy. - PUB DATE: 5/31/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KOB-TV NBC 4 Albuquerque
VIDEO/PHOTOS: Hundreds of motorcycle riders gathered in downtown Cleveland on Sunday to honor Ohio’s fallen firefighters who died in 2021.
The 18th Annual Firefighters Memorial Ride started with a ceremony at the Cleveland Firefighters Memorial in front of the Cleveland Science Center at 10:30 a.m. Following the ceremony, the processional ride began from downtown Cleveland at the Firefighters Memorial and traveled through the following communities: Cleveland, Cleveland Heights, South Euclid, Mayfield Heights, Willoughby, Mayfield Village, Eastlake and ending at Western Reserve Harley-Davidson in Mentor with food and entertainment. - PUB DATE: 5/31/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WJW-TV FOX 8 Cleveland
May 28, 1977 is a date that may never be forgotten in the Tri-State. 165 people were killed and hundreds more were hurt in a fire at the Beverly Hills Supper Club in Southgate, Kentucky on that date.
The famed club near Cincinnati, which was known for entertainment, was hosting a huge crowd that night. - PUB DATE: 5/31/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WCPO-TV ABC 9 Cincinnati
A home in Jackson’s Belhaven neighborhood appears to be a total loss after a massive fire overnight.
The house is at the corner of Pinehurst and Olive Streets, right across from Belhaven University and a few doors down from the historic Eudora Welty House.
There’s no word yet on how it started or whether anyone was inside at the time. - PUB DATE: 5/27/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WLBT-TV NBC 3 Jackson
A firebug is wreaking havoc in south Sacramento, setting more than a dozen fires during the month of May near the same intersection.
Gesselle Pablo drove up on the flames and started snapping pictures. In one picture, fire lined Freeport Boulevard, but that wasn’t the only one. Pablo spotted another fire a block away off Florin Road. - PUB DATE: 5/27/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KOVR-TV CBS 13 Sacramento
One family is celebrating more than a century of service to Milwaukee in 2022.
The Lipski family has been serving in the Milwaukee Fire Department for 110 years. It started back in 1912 when current Chief Aaron Lipski's great-grandfather's oldest brother started at Engine No 21 off of Palmer and Lloyd Street. - PUB DATE: 5/27/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WISN-TV ABC 12 Milwaukee
The city of Charleston is having trouble retaining employees, especially those outside of the police and fire departments.
These workers, often referred to as “non-sworn” or “civilians,” are leaving at a higher rate than in years past, according to an internal survey conducted by the city.
So far in 2022, 62 percent of exiting employees cited pay as their main reason for leaving. - PUB DATE: 5/27/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Post & Courier - Metered Site
A bill to ensure condominium safety passed both chambers of the legislature and was signed Thursday by Gov. Ron DeSantis.
Within days of the special legislative session starting this week, both chambers passed bills to reform property insurance and increase safety measures for condominiums. Both bills, Senate Bill 2D, Property Insurance, and Senate Bill 4D, Building Safety, were sponsored by state Sen. - PUB DATE: 5/27/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Center Square
VIDEO: A school bus driver running their routes Wednesday morning spotted a house fire and quickly called 911 about 6:00am.
The house fire, in the 3900 block of Hooker Road, was in Walker County, but Chattanooga firefighters assisted in the task of extinguishing the fire and shared helmet cam video. - PUB DATE: 5/26/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WRCB-TV NBC 3 Chattanooga
Throughout the trailer for the upcoming CBS drama series, “Fire Country,” the words Cal Fire are written on fire trucks, uniforms, shirts and paperwork.
But Joe Tyler, director and 31-year veteran of the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire), wants Cal Fire staff to know that the department is not affiliated in any way with the television show. - PUB DATE: 5/26/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Press Democrat - Metered Site
In the wake of the Uvalde, Texas elementary school shooting, KOIN 6 News talked to a former Oregon fire chief who responded to the 1998 Thurston High School shooting who also pioneered a program that worked to prevent school shootings for nearly a decade.
On May 21, 1998, 15-year-old Kip Kinkel, a freshman at Thurston High School in Springfield shot and killed two student and wounded 25 more. - PUB DATE: 5/26/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KOIN-TV NBC 6 Portland
