Five people have been left without a home after a house fire on St. Cecelia Drive in Chesterfield, leading the Chesterfield Fire Department to issue a warning to other residents. The fire department received a call at 8 am and the first crews arrived on scene within 4 minutes.
There, they found flames emerging from the roof of the home. - PUB DATE: 3/21/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WRIC-TV ABC 8 Richmond
VIDEO: Two Sparks firefighters are now providing a piece of equipment to fire stations all over the country.
‘We came up with an idea of trying to find a way to protect the lens of our SCBA mask,” said co-owner Cody Cavin.
What started as an idea became BA Shields, where they manufacture shields that cover the lens of a firefighter’s self-contained breathing apparatus. - PUB DATE: 3/21/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KOLO-TV ABC/CW+ 8 Reno
PHOTOS: The city of Highland Park has added a $1 million truck to its firefighting fleet, the first new vehicle for its Fire Department since a private resident donated one nine years ago. The city received about $850,000 from the state to buy Ladder 1 with the help of state Rep. Helena Scott, D-Detroit, according to Highland Park Mayor Hubert Yopp. - PUB DATE: 3/21/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Detroit News - Metered Site
Some familiar faces to the first-responder industry this week announced the Public Safety Towers Company (PSTC), which enters the competitive wireless-infrastructure space while promising to take a public-safety-centric approach in an effort to find synergies between government-owned assets and commercial-carrier needs. - PUB DATE: 3/21/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: IWCE's Urgent Communications
PHOTOS: The Baltimore City Fire Department’s largest boat could be used to rescue a cargo ship that has been stuck in the Chesapeake Bay since mid-March, according to the local firefighters’ union.
The Baltimore Firefighters IAFF Local 734 said in a social media post on Sunday that the fireboat has the ability to help with operations to safely remove the Hong Kong-flagged ship Ever Forward from the bay. - PUB DATE: 3/21/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WJZ-TV CBS 13 Baltimore
Crews in a small Texas community are working to put out a fire that engulfed the city Thursday afternoon.
Heavy flames filled the city of Ranger's downtown area and engulfed historic structures including the police department building and a 100-year-old church.
Video taken by the Eastland County Today newspaper showed crews working to put out the fire at the historic Second Baptist Church and the police station. - PUB DATE: 3/18/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WFAA-TV ABC 8 Dallas
For years, the fire prevention messaging was simple and snappy: When you change your clocks for daylight saving time, change the batteries in your smoke detectors and carbon monoxide alarms.
If Congress does away with the biannual clock change, as the Senate this week proposed, that reminder won’t be there anymore. - PUB DATE: 3/18/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Boston Globe - Metered Site
Tow truck driving can be a dangerous job when workers are along the interstate cleaning up the scene of an accident or towing a vehicle away.
After the loss of Ross Booker, local tow truck drivers are asking if something can be done to make their jobs easier. Booker was killed by a 16-year-old after a Scott's Law violation in early March. - PUB DATE: 3/18/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KHQA-TV CBS/ABC 7 Hannibal
Calhoun County firefighters are looking to establish a firefighter training association to help standardize fire response protocols across the county.
“One of the big things is that you’ve got every department now doing kind of their own training. There is not a whole lot of uniformity within Calhoun County. - PUB DATE: 3/18/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Times and Democrat
A simple call to action from an Iowa woman has gone viral on social media.
Allison Marois made a TikTok in February asking for help for a gift she's working on for her father's birthday in August.
Her father, Bill Collins, recently retired after being a firefighter for more than 38 years.
"He really is passionate about being a firefighter. - PUB DATE: 3/18/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KHBS-TV ABC/CW+ 40 Fort Smith
VIDEOS/PHOTOS: A fire at a Walmart warehouse distribution center has cast a large plume of smoke visible throughout Indianapolis. Nearly 200 firefighters are on scene with officials calling on anyone living near the looming plume of smoke to shelter in place and stay indoors along with not touching any of the debris that is raining down on the city’s west side. - PUB DATE: 3/17/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WXIN-TV FOX 59 Indianapolis
The St. Andrew Pipes & Drums band plays year-round at graduations and funerals. But there's nothing like the thrill of Kansas City's legendary St. Patrick's Day parade.
Iain McKee grew up listening to the hum of the Highland bagpipe. Sixty years ago, his grandfather Wallace McKee helped found St. Andrew Pipes & Drums. - PUB DATE: 3/17/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KCUR- FM 89.3 Kansas City
When it comes to protecting first responders at accident scenes nationwide, brighter isn’t better.
A recent study by the Emergency Responder Safety Institute revealed that the light-emitting diode flashers on police cruisers, fire engines, and ambulances that spray the night with intense beams to protect first responders from oncoming traffic actually create a lot of glare, and that effect intensifies when the light bounces off retroreflective chevrons attached to the back of emergency vehicles. - PUB DATE: 3/17/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Coffee or Die Magazine
Saturday, March 19, 2022, marks the 40th anniversary of a fire that killed a Petersburg firefighter Mike Goff and nearly cost the city its entire downtown.
For those who were there, the day is remembered as a nightmare.
"Every second. It was yesterday. You know, in your minds, it was just yesterday," retired Petersburg Fire Captain Glenn Dean said. - PUB DATE: 3/17/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WTVR-TV CBS 6 Richmond
Smoke was visible miles away after a fire broke out Tuesday night in Milford, Massachusetts.
Aerial footage showed massive flames engulfing a three-story building on Haven Street. Fire crews from Milford and multiple neighboring communities responded.
No one was injured, fire officials said.
Access to water was a problem for firefighters. - PUB DATE: 3/16/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WBTS-CD NBC 10 Boston
Researchers in Washington are updating a database on different types of fentanyl to keep first responders safe when they arrive to the scene of an overdose or crime scene. The idea is to put that information into a handheld device that officers or firefighters can use so they know if the substance they have found is dangerous. - PUB DATE: 3/16/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KUSA-TV NBC 9 Denver
It was March 25, 2018, and then high school standout Bones Hyland was in his room in his family’s Delaware home after an AAU game. He was watching the Kansas vs. Duke Elite Eight game on his laptop and talking to a friend when his room started to fill with black smoke.
The home was quickly engulfed in fire and Hyland was forced to jump from his second-story window to safety on the ground. - PUB DATE: 3/16/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: NBC Sports
Sometimes, a life-changing experience can come from seemingly out of the blue. At least it appeared that way for Joshua Everetts, age 43, of Jenkintown.
He lived in South Philly with his wife, Jovanna, for 15 years, but the two had decided that once their son, Raylan, was of school age that they would move out of the city to Jenkintown. - PUB DATE: 3/16/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Reporter Online - Metered Site
VIDEO: The BA.2 sub-lineage of the Omicron variant now makes up nearly a quarter of new COVID-19 infections nationwide, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated Tuesday, up from around 1 in 10 new cases just a week prior.
Since January, Omicron has made up virtually all new infections in the U. - PUB DATE: 3/16/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: CBS News
Several explosions lead to a fire at the Timbuk Tree Farm in Licking County early Tuesday morning.
Firefighters at the scene said explosions within one building happened at the farm located on the 2000 block of Timbuk Road in Granville around 2 a.m.
Three buildings that have offices and products that were being shipped out are on fire, as well as the shipping area. - PUB DATE: 3/15/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WBNS-TV CBS 10 Columbus
