Fourteen people are hurt but all residents are accounted for after a powerful explosion and fire ripped through an apartment complex in Silver Spring, Maryland, on Thursday, officials said in an update Friday.
Three people have serious injuries, Montgomery County Fire Chief Scott Goldstein said at a morning news conference. - PUB DATE: 3/4/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WRC-TV NBC 4 Washington, D.C.
An explosion and fire at a Silver Spring-area apartment complex on Thursday brought back memories of a fatal explosion in 2016 that killed seven people and displaced nearly 70.
Thursday’s explosion and fire happened at Friendly Garden Apartments at 2423 Lyttonsville Road. About a dozen people were injured, including 10 who went to area hospitals. - PUB DATE: 3/4/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Bethesda Magazine
Though the township's firefighters union has lost a court battle, it has won a victory in its fight for new safety measures.
A state appeals court has thrown cold water on the union's request to seek arbitration on a grievance about manpower levels in the fire department, that arose after a May 2020 apartment building fire that left more than 30 tenants temporarily homeless. - PUB DATE: 3/4/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: My Central Jersey - Metered Site
VIDEO: Winston-Salem Fire Chief Trey Mayo calls the Weaver Fertilizer Plant fire his “career fire.”
Just about everyone can point to that one event: the most stressful, challenging, sleep-preventing, on-the-job happening unlike any other.
For me, it was the interview I did with the husband of Sandy Bradshaw about a week after Sept. - PUB DATE: 3/4/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WGHP-TV FOX 8 Greensboro
VIDEO: A group of FDNY probationary firefighters carried Ukrainian flags among U.S. flags as they ran across Ward’s Island Bridge in New York City on Thursday, March 3, in "a show of solidarity and support for the people and first responders of Ukraine," the FDNY said.
Footage shared by the department shows the Ukrainian flag among American flags as the group ran above Harlem River on Thursday. - PUB DATE: 3/4/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WNYW-TV FOX 5 New York
More than two dozen firefighters raced to put out fierce flames after a home in Margate caught fire.
Margate Fire Rescue units responded to the scene of the blaze along the 1300 block of Northwest 58th Street, at around 6 p.m., Wednesday.
Neighbors across the street recorded and sent videos to 7News of flames and gusts of black smoke coming from the burning residence. - PUB DATE: 3/3/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WSVN-TV FOX 7 Miami
PHOTOS: A diver with the Port Arthur Fire Department entered the Sabine-Neches Ship Channel in January in an attempted recovery. But he soon after got entangled in old metal and ended up underneath a concrete pad beneath the surface.
Simultaneously, a military vessel was coming through the ship channel. - PUB DATE: 3/3/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Port Arthur News - Metered Site
Every superhero has a secret identity and an origin story. When Eli Ramos isn’t protecting Jersey City as a firefighter, he can be seen putting his superpowers to the test as an art instructor, mural painter, and comic book illustrator. Now he’s teaming up with the West Hudson Arts & Theatre Company (W. - PUB DATE: 3/3/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Jersey Journal - NJ.com
A group of Mississippi firefighters caught fire during their desperate attempt to save a 3-year-old from a burning apartment on March 1, according to the Greenville Fire Department. The boy died in the fire. But the valiant attempt to rescue him at all costs is being hailed as heroic in Greenville, 150 miles southwest of Memphis, Tennessee. - PUB DATE: 3/3/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Raleigh News & Observer
A home exploded on Millers Court Tuesday afternoon in O’Fallon, Missouri. The St. Charles Ambulance District says that there are no injuries. The cause of the explosion is currently under investigation. Initial reports indicate that the fire department was called to the scene for a gas leak.
First responders have the fire under control. - PUB DATE: 3/2/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KTVI-TV FOX 2 St. Louis
The Los Angeles City Council voted Tuesday to confirm the appointment of Deputy Chief Kristin Crowley who will become the first woman to lead the Los Angeles Fire Department.
The appointment would be effective March 26, when Chief Ralph Terrazas is scheduled to retire.
"I think it's so fitting for this nomination to come to council today, on the first day of Women's History Month,'' Council President Nury Martinez said. - PUB DATE: 3/2/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KNBC-TV NBC 4 Los Angeles
PHOTOS: Fire officials this week took to social media to remember a firebombing at a local mattress factory that the FBI classified at the time as the “largest arson case” nationwide.
Tuesday marked 47 years since an enormous blaze ripped through the B.F. Goodrich Sponge Rubber mattress factory — now, the site of the city’s riverwalk — in one of the biggest industrial arson cases to hit the nation. - PUB DATE: 3/2/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: New Haven Register
As of Tuesday, some Colorado Springs residents may hear something different when they call 911.
"A unit will respond when a unit is available," call takers will say to residents in the south part of town who contact the emergency service for non-emergency situations — for example, when symptoms indicate the flu, a sprained ankle or a fractured hip. - PUB DATE: 3/2/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Gazette - Metered Site
Alarm of a different kind is what the Parma Heights Fire Department discovered late last year leading to emergency construction work at the Pearl Road fire station.
“The fire station was inspected by a qualified construction company,” Parma Heights Fire Chief Matt Bernard said. “It was under their recommendation that the building’s structural integrity needed to be addressed before a catastrophic failure. - PUB DATE: 3/2/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Cleveland.com
VIDEO: Officials with the Overland Park Fire Department are investigating what caused a massive blaze that destroyed three homes under construction in Johnson County, Kansas, early Monday. Firefighters were sent to a house fire call in the 11100 block of West 172nd Terrace around 4:20 a.m. on Monday. - PUB DATE: 3/1/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KMBC-TV ABC 9 Kansas City
VIDEO: Another People's Parade rolled with an interesting theme on the Eastern Shore in Daphne. The "Loyal Order of the Fire Truck" keeping the tradition alive.
The leading float of their parade -- not something you see every day. The 1950 Bon Secour fire truck is the inspiration behind Daphne's first Mardi Gras parading group. - PUB DATE: 3/1/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WALA-TV FOX 10 Mobile
PHOTOS: What now is a park, 20 years ago was a row of buildings with businesses on the ground floor and apartments on the upper levels.
During the early hours of March 2, 2002, the north side of the 200 block of State Street was engulfed in fire presumably caused by a malfunctioning wood-burning boiler in the basement of one of the buildings. - PUB DATE: 3/1/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: NNY 360 - Metered Site
Indianapolis EMS were dispatched to nearly 70 overdoses over the course of three days this weekend, a grim reminder of Indiana’s drug epidemic that has surged throughout the pandemic.
According to officials, EMS paramedics and EMTs have administered the opioid reversing agent naloxone 255 times in the month of February. - PUB DATE: 3/1/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WXIN-TV FOX 59 Indianapolis
VIDEO/PHOTOS: A raging six-alarm blaze spread to three multi-family homes in East Boston early Monday morning, leaving dozens of people displaced.
Firefighters responding to a reported fire on Maverick Street around 3:30 a.m. found heavy flames on all three floors of one building and discovered that the fire had spread to two adjacent buildings, according to the Boston Fire Department. - PUB DATE: 2/28/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WHDH-TV ABC 7 Boston
VIDEO: An Oakland hook-and-ladder fire truck crashed into a building Saturday near Lake Merritt, and it was all caught on camera.
The video shows one fire engine speed through the intersection. Then, a car tries to make a left turn, right in front of the ladder truck following closely behind. That ladder truck swerves to avoid the car, and goes straight into the storefront of a ground floor business at Grand Ave. - PUB DATE: 2/28/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KGO-TV ABC 7 San Francisco
