VIDEO: The Charlottesville Fire Department has new equipment that can show changes in fire behavior as they happen.
Training and EMS Captain Jess Rodzinka says this new training equipment is partially in response to a four percent jump in fires throughout the city, especially in the kitchen. There's been an 85 percent increase in cooking fires. - PUB DATE: 9/1/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WCAV-TV CBS 19 Charlottesville
VIDEO: The growing vigil for 20-year-old Tiquann "T.J." Davis Jr., near St. Paul's Marshall Avenue bridge, is both a sad and frustrating reminder of what's at stake for the St. Paul Fire Department.
"A tragedy occurred here and it's happened in the past," said Steve Sampson, Deputy Chief of Operations for the St. - PUB DATE: 9/1/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KARE-TV NBC 11 Minneapolis
New footage of a burning Bolt EV added more fuel to Chevy's raging battery fire saga this week.
Early Monday morning, 20-year-old Jesus Damian's 2017 Bolt EV burst into flames while sitting in a parking lot near his apartment in Sacramento, California. The all-electric vehicle was unplugged and off when the fire broke out. - PUB DATE: 9/1/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Mashable
We’ve put together a list of TV specials and documentaries commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks.
This list will update as new programming is announced. 9/11: One Day In America (9 p.m., National Geographic Channel/Hulu) — This new documentary series offers an in-depth and visceral account of Sept. - PUB DATE: 9/1/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The News & Observer
VIDEO/PHOTOS: The cause of a fire that destroyed a large boat at Pope’s Island Marina Monday evening is under investigation, according to New Bedford Deputy Fire Chief Scott Kruger.
Kruger tells 12 News the boat has been deemed a “multi-million dollar loss.”
The boat contained 500 gallons of fuel, according to Kruger, which made fighting the flames difficult. - PUB DATE: 8/31/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WPRI-TV CBS 12 Providence
Photographer Tom Franklin wasn’t even supposed to be in The Record's newsroom in Hackensackthat morning.
He’d been in the Dominican Republic for a baseball project and had stopped by to talk to his editor. They were discussing the assignment when someone interrupted with the news that a plane had hit one of the Twin Towers at the World Trade Center. - PUB DATE: 8/31/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Intelligencer
All eastbound and westbound lanes of Interstate 26 near exit 35 in Spartanburg County were blocked Monday due to a crash involving a semitrailer and fire truck.
The South Carolina Highway Patrol said the fire truck was in the area putting out a vehicle fire when it was hit by the semitrailer.
Troopers said no one was in the fire truck when it was hit. - PUB DATE: 8/31/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WYFF-TV NBC 4 Greenville
Dozens of motorcycle riders hit the road on a cross-country ride to honor many of those first responders who died on September 11th. It's something every member of the Fire Hogs motorcycle club, and friends of the club feel strongly about.
2021 marks the 20th anniversary of 9-11...where 343 New York City firefighters lost their lives that fateful day while trying to save others. - PUB DATE: 8/31/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KABC-TV ABC 7 Los Angeles
Hurricane Ida has pummeled Louisiana's parishes, strapping hospital and health resources as thousands remain without power.
Experts worry Ida's impact will worsen COVID-19 spread in the state's low-lying parishes, where vaccination rates are low – in some only about a third of the population – and cases have surged to all-time highs. - PUB DATE: 8/31/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: USA Today
VIDEO: Several families were burned out of their homes during an early Sunday morning fire in Socorro.
It happened overnight in the 10000 block of Mirisa Street, where the multi-family residence was destroyed by flames. Video of the blaze taken by ABC-7 viewer Sixto Ramirez showed the dark sky lit up with an orange glow as fire consumed the home. - PUB DATE: 8/30/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KVIA-TV ABC/CW 7 El Paso
VIDEO: Several fire departments in the Finger Lakes region showed off their old fire trucks at the Emergency Vehicle & Antique Fire Show in Spencerport on Sunday.
The Ionia Fire Department in Ontario County had one of their firetruck that used from the mid-1950s until Hurricane Agnes in 1972 on display. - PUB DATE: 8/30/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Spectrum News 1
Hurricane Ida carved a path across Louisiana that cuts through a region packed with hazardous-chemical plants, raising risks of an environmental disaster along an industrial strip infamously nicknamed “Cancer Alley.”
About two thirds of Louisiana’s industrial sites with toxic chemicals were in Ida’s path, with the storm predicted to charge through 590 sites that produce or store those hazardous materials, according to an analysis of the U. - PUB DATE: 8/30/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Bloomburg Green - Metered Site
The Never Forgotten Games return to Redding for their third Cross Fit competition. The chairman of the Never Forgotten Games, Darren Hull, made sure the event went on this year after canceling last year due to COVID-19.
The event honors the lives of five first responders from Northern California who lost their lives in the line of duty. - PUB DATE: 8/30/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KHSL-TV CBS 12 Chico
COVID-19 is the illness that’s caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. To date, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has provided emergency use authorization to three different vaccines to help protect against COVID-19.
The vaccines that have been authorized for emergency use in the United States so far use two different types of technology:
Messenger RNA (mRNA) and
adenovirus vector. - PUB DATE: 8/30/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Healthline
VIDEO: Massive flames burned through the roof of a commercial warehouse Thursday night in west Louisville, completely destroying the building that required a large presence of firefighters and first responders.
The fire was initially reported just before 8:30 p.m. Thursday in the 3100 block of Del Park Terrace in the Russell neighborhood. - PUB DATE: 8/27/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WLKY-TV CBS 32 Louisville
Move over Dalmatians, a little baby pig is taking the spotlight at a firehouse in Brooklyn.
Penny the fire pig is three months old and was adopted by FDNY firefighter Darren Harris.
Penny spends much of her time hanging with her dad and the other firefighters at Engine 239 in Park Slope.
She’s become somewhat of a local celebrity, as many people stop by to snap pictures with the cutie and feed her snacks. - PUB DATE: 8/27/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WWNY-TV CBS 7 Carthage
VIDEO: Every now and then, the internet opens a portal on a weird new trend. Enter the Milk Crate Challenge. You can find a growing collection of videos on TikTok, Instagram, Twitter and the like of people stacking milk crates, trying to climb them like a staircase, and taking terrible falls, because believe it or not, piles of milk crates are not structurally sound. - PUB DATE: 8/27/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: CNET
Firefighters statewide have threatened to quit instead of being vaccinated, but, for some local firefighters – it’s more complicated than that.
They want to know if their job will change if they ask for an exemption. For the past 20 years, Tim Archer has been on the frontlines. He’s also the president of the Spokane Firefighter’s Union and says he hasn’t gotten the vaccine for religious reasons. - PUB DATE: 8/27/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KXLY-TV ABC 4 Spokane
Fire killed 3,700 and injured 16,600 people in 2019.
Direct property losses due to fire reached $14.8 billion a year.
Firefighters paid a high price for this fire record as well; in 2019, 62 firefighters died on duty.
America’s fire losses today represent a dramatic improvement from more than 40 years ago. - PUB DATE: 8/27/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: American Security Today
Tulsa firefighters are battling a house fire that broke out Wednesday evening near 81st and Mingo.
The Tulsa home has severe damage after the fire. A viewer sent video of the home completely engulfed in flames a little after 7 p.m. Witnesses said the fire spread quickly.
Osage Drone 6 captured footage of the smoke flowing from the house and the roof that had collapsed on the home. - PUB DATE: 8/26/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KWTV-DT CBS 9 Oklahoma City
