The toughest two minutes in sports will be hosted in Martin County this weekend.
The Firefighter Combat Challenge is a grueling course that requires strength and endurance and showcases skills that firefighters use every day.
The free-to-attend contest will be held Saturday and Sunday at Stuart Beach and is a regional qualifying event for the national competition scheduled to take place in Fort Pierce in September. - PUB DATE: 5/13/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WFLX-TV FOX 29 Palm Beach
Birmingham Stallions linebacker Scooby Wright III has been one of the breakout stars of the inaugural United States Football League season.
Through four games, the Stallions are undefeated. Wright has recorded 32 tackles, two sacks, two forced fumbles and two passes defended to help Birmingham. Wright was the Stallions’ first selection in the inside linebackers portion of the USFL Draft in February. - PUB DATE: 5/13/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: FOX News
VIDEO: The pool of funds intended to compensate victims of the collapse of the Champlain Towers South condominium will increase to more than $1 billion, attorneys Wednesday told the judge overseeing the resulting class action lawsuit.
Attorneys for the victims said all but one of the remaining defendants have settled the claims against them, and that company is expected to settle soon. - PUB DATE: 5/12/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WTVJ-TV NBC 6 Miami
Reckless driving in Milwaukee is an epidemic. Emergency responders are getting hurt – and the wounds are more than physical.
"People are screaming and crying and yelling at you to move faster, things like that," said Milwaukee Fire Captain A.J. Hornik. A group of Milwaukee firefighters recently trained for what has become a serious problem in the city. - PUB DATE: 5/12/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WITI-TV FOX 6 Milwaukee
Studio Gang has completed a fire station for Brooklyn's elite force that doubles as a simulation and training facility for extreme rescue situations.
The new headquarters for the FDNY's Rescue 2 unit is located in Brownsville, Brooklyn. Each of New York's five boroughs has a dedicated Rescue team. These teams are highly specialized in extreme conditions that include rappelling down buildings, navigating collapsed structures, and even deploying for underwater rescue operations. - PUB DATE: 5/12/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Dezeen
PHOTO GALLERY: On Pleasant Street, flaming chunks of wood were flying through the air. David Jennings stood on the corner of Pleasant and Eastern Avenue, looking west at the Flint as it was being consumed by an inferno.
“The smoke and the flames … it blotted out the sun,” Jennings said. “Flames over 100 feet in the air. - PUB DATE: 5/12/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Herald News - Metered Site
VIDEOS: A raging fire at a waste management facility sent thick, black smoke into the sky for hours Tuesday in Elizabeth, New Jersey.
The fire is out, but officials say one person was found dead Wednesday morning. CBS2's Elijah Westbrook has learned the fire claimed the life of a person who first responders believe was a missing employee. - PUB DATE: 5/11/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WCBS-TV CBS 2 New York
People lined the streets of Kutztown for the long-anticipated return of a hand pumper used to fight fires in the mid 1800's. "Joel Bates built approximately 27 hand pumpers between the 1820's and 1850's," says Jeremy Bellois, history buff formerly of Kutztown Fire Company, who currently runs with Allentown Fire Dept. - PUB DATE: 5/11/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WFMZ-TV 69 Allentown
AT&T on Tuesday announced the launch of its new location-based routing to automatically transmit wireless 9-1-1 calls to the appropriate 9-1-1 call centers on a nationwide basis. AT&T can quickly and more accurately identify where a wireless 9-1-1 call is coming from using device GPS and hybrid information to route the call to the correct 9-1-1 call center, also known as public safety answering point or PSAP. - PUB DATE: 5/11/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: MacTrast
A young man is breathing a little easier after nearly losing an engagement ring to a vehicle fire on Monday.
According to Williamson County Fire Rescue, fire crews were dispatched to a car fire off I-840 on Monday afternoon. Fire-Rescue crews arrived to find the vehicle fully involved and quickly moved to stop the flames. - PUB DATE: 5/11/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WSMV-TV NBC 4 Nashville
The steady increase in COVID-19 cases this past month is not disconcerting to Americans, as they are less worried now about the coronavirus than they were at the start of the year, and fewer are social distancing.
Fewer than one in three U.S. adults (31%) say they are "very" or "somewhat worried" about getting COVID-19, statistically similar to the 34% recorded in mid-February when cases were steeply declining after the omicron spike. - PUB DATE: 5/11/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Gallup News
VIDEOS: Multiple buildings are damaged following a large fire that broke out Monday afternoon in Salem, Massachusetts.
The three-alarm fire started just before 4 p.m. along Hancock Street between Canal and Lafayette streets. Video from Sky 5 showed flames extending from one triple-decker home to other structures nearby. - PUB DATE: 5/10/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WCVB-TV ABC 5 Boston
VIDEO: The future home of Station 30 is going to be electric and more than just in looks. The city of Charlotte’s budget includes funding to build a new Station 30 in southwest Charlotte.
The newly constructed fire facility will be on Beam Road and will be “all electric,” complete with the city’s first electric fire truck. - PUB DATE: 5/10/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WSOC-TV ABC 9 Charlotte
A 27-year-old was charged after allegedly breaking into a Kaimuki fire station, where law enforcement sources say he was discovered naked in a bathroom.
The suspect allegedly broke in through a ground floor bathroom window while firefighters were inside asleep. Just after 2 a.m. Sunday, a firefighter reported being woken up by a man who had flipped on the lights inside the dorm at Fire Station No. - PUB DATE: 5/10/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Hawaii News Now
The city of Pittsburgh and the firefighters' union have agreed firefighters no longer must live within the city limits, reaching a negotiated end to an ongoing legal battle.
"This is a great thing for not only the city, the citizens, but the firefighters who serve here," Ralph Sicuro, president, Pittsburgh Firefighters Union Local #1, told Pittsburgh's Action News 4. - PUB DATE: 5/10/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WTAE-TV ABC 4 Pittsburgh
Fire officials say they were called to a barn on Concord Church Road just before 9 p.m. Saturday.
Flames had engulfed the barn by the time crews arrived on scene. Lewisville Fire was the lead agency, with multiple other fire crews responding.
They say they were able to get it under control in about an hour. - PUB DATE: 5/9/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WXII-TV NBC 12 Winston-Salem
When Pavel Zboril moved to Owensboro from the Czech Republic, he thought he left his life as a firefighter behind.
Zboril, who comes from a community near the Czech city of Olomouc, was a volunteer firefighter, from a family of firefighters.
“We have a long family history of volunteer firefighters in my family,” he said. - PUB DATE: 5/9/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Messenger-Inquirer
The Spokane Fire Department is implementing a new way to care for sick and injured children.
SFD has partnered with Handtevy, a company that specializes in EMS pediatric technology, to create a new emergency medical care system for kids. It offers a pediatric resuscitation system and a mobile application to reduce the stress that comes with pediatric medical emergencies. - PUB DATE: 5/9/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KXLY-TV ABC 4 Spokane
Volvo is obviously a very safety-oriented brand. It's consistently ranked as one of the safest automakers out there. Now, some firefighters are going to tear up a Volvo XC40 Recharge in the name of safety. Volvo says it's donating the fully-electric SUV to the Boston Fire Department so that the department's crews can learn more about electric vehicle fires. - PUB DATE: 5/9/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: CarBuzz
One York County fire department has generations of moms and families to celebrate on Mother’s Day, not to mention the traditions they’ve passed down.
Three generations of Micki Rife’s family have worked in the West Manchester Township Fire Department, going back decades. She said firefighting is in their blood. - PUB DATE: 5/9/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WHTM-TV ABC 27 Harrisburg
