PHOTOS: See Spot run. See Spot fight fires?
The New York Fire Department announced that they will begin using robot dogs made by engineering company Boston Dynamics in the department’s search-and-rescue missions.
Each $75,000 robot dog, known as Spot, will be controlled by a human operator and will be able to collect images and data. - PUB DATE: 3/23/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The New York Post
When the siren goes off, Fire Chief Terry Schadt says that's a sign that help's on the way.
But those not in the know, or who aren't longtime residents of West Peoria, might instead think a tornado's on the way.
To the untrained ear, the siren West Peoria's Fire Department uses to call its volunteer force to the firehouse on Waverly Avenue sounds a lot like the shrill tone that tells people to take cover. - PUB DATE: 3/23/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Journal Star - Metered Site
Milton firefighters returned Monday to an upgraded Fire Station 41, having spent months being hosted by their Roswell colleagues while needed mold remediation work was completed.
Station 41, at the intersection of New Providence Road and Arnold Mill Road/State Route 140, closed last November after an air quality assessment found high levels of black mold spores in its bunk room and elevated levels in its common areas. - PUB DATE: 3/23/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Alpharetta-Milton Patch
Most of the early day buildings around the Enid downtown square in 1901 were built of southern hard pine. A few painted walls and some brick walls were beginning to be used. Wooden sidewalks were the standard.
According to the Enid Fire Department history, the Enid City Council on Dec. 28, 1893, approved the appointment of a fire warden and assistant fire marshal, plus each business around the downtown square would be required to keep a barrel of water for protection against fire and six fire hand grenades (glass spheres containing carbon tetrachloride) to help put out any fires that occurred. - PUB DATE: 3/22/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Enid News & Eagle
The Coeur d’Alene Fire Department wants you to help it name some of its newest team members.
Fire Rescue crews just got their two new water rescue training dummies and they need to be named. One of the dummies is child-sized and the other is adult-sized. The Coeur d’Alene Fire Department posted pictures of the new dummies to its Facebook page and asked for help picking out names. - PUB DATE: 3/22/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KXLY-TV ABC 4 Spokane
VIDEO: Brownsburg firefighter Jason Stumm, in the industry for more than 20 years, says each day is unpredictable.
“There are days, weeks and months sometimes that you go on runs and it’s not really stressful. It’s a daily event, but then you have that one run in the middle of the month that you remember. - PUB DATE: 3/22/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WTHR-TV NBC 13 Indianapolis
The omicron subvariant BA.2 is continuing to gain ground in the U.S., according to Covid-19 tests sequenced over the last two weeks.
Helix, a San Diego-based genomics firm, has been watching the BA.2 variant since it first popped up in the U.S. in early January. Although it was initially slow to take hold, Helix now estimates that 50% to 70% of all Covid cases nationwide are BA. - PUB DATE: 3/22/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Bloomberg
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
