A D.C. firefighter who spent the night responding to emergency calls returned to the fire station Tuesday morning to find his car was gone.
Engine 21 in the 1700 block of Lanier Place NW in Adams Morgan is one of the District’s busier fire stations and spent the night responding to back-to-back emergency calls. - PUB DATE: 7/21/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WRC-TV NBC 4 Washington DC
A rescue-turned-firedog in Orange County now has a book written about him - after the popular pooch became an internet sensation last year.
Nick, the Newburgh firedog, is not only one of the guys at the city fire department, he's also an internet sensation on TikTok.
His fame is due to Assistant Chief Tim Dexter, who posted Nick on TikTok last year, which got 86,000 views - and gave Dexter the idea to write a children's book about him. - PUB DATE: 7/21/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: News 12 Westchester
Multiple fire departments responded to a house fire on Poplar Lane in Citronelle Monday.
When Citronelle Fire and Rescue arrived at the home, they saw heavy smoke and fire coming from the roof. No one was inside the home at the time, and no injuries were reported.
Georgetown-Fellowship V.F.D., Oak Grove Volunteer Fire-Rescue, and Calcedeaver Volunteer Fire/Rescue Department were requested as mutual aid. - PUB DATE: 7/20/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WKRG-TV CBS 5 Mobile
Hall County Fire Chief Chris Armstrong agreed that when he was a young boy many of his playmates wanted to be firefighters when they grew up, but things often change in the years between youthful dreams and adulthood realities.
But for those in whom that childhood ambition still simmers, Armstrong says his department might have just what they are looking for: a career opportunity as a firefighter. - PUB DATE: 7/20/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: AccessWDUN
Seven members of the Vestal Fire Department have been answering the call of duty for a combined total of more than 400 years.
“It’s our job,” said Chris Lupold, 71, a 53-year volunteer for the department. “We just keep doing it.”
Lupold has battled countless blazes during his long firefighting career. - PUB DATE: 7/20/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Press & Sun-Bulletin
VIDEO: Normally when you hear about firefighters and car wrecks, it’s the firefighter who is responding to the incident, not getting into them. While Washington County firefighter Chandler Fishack has completed numerous extrications, he also has a knack for taking cars apart to turn them into demolition derby cars. - PUB DATE: 7/20/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WDVM-TV 25 Hagerstown
Cheers filled the air as Steve Hines drove the Belmar First Aid Squad's 1938 Ford ambulance one last time.
As Hines pressed on the gas Friday, the sirens sung. He gave the 83-year-old ambulance as much gas as it would take to accelerate onto a truck that would drive it approximately 650 miles to the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan — the ambulance's new home. - PUB DATE: 7/20/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Asbury Park Press - Metered Site
VIDEO: Police have confirmed that children who were unaccounted for after a deadly shooting spree and house fire on Sunday, July 18, have been located and are safe. Police did not say how many children they were looking for and have not yet provided additional information about the circumstances of how they were found. - PUB DATE: 7/19/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KOLD-TV CBS 13 Tucson
VIDEO: A car hit a fuel tanker which burst into large flames in the parking lot of an OnCue in Oklahoma City, police said.
Just before the car crashed into the tanker, the fuel truck was filling up with diesel at the gas station near NW 164th and Portland Avenue.
The crash happened about 2 a.m. Monday and police said the driver who caused the crash is on the run. - PUB DATE: 7/19/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KWTV-DT CBS 9 Oklahoma City
VIDEO: As part of the city’s plan to repaint its public safety vehicles, nine fire trucks are slated to turn gray.
In the past few months, the city has been repainting and detailing its entire fleet. Police cars, EMS ambulances and sanitation trucks are getting a makeover. Fire trucks are last, and the fire union is trying to draw the line. - PUB DATE: 7/19/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KDKA-TV CBS 2 Pittsburgh
The Volunteer First Responder Act is a bipartisan bill that has been reintroduced by U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin and three other Senators from various states.
“We are advancing bipartisan legislation that would create a greater incentive to do this sort of community service by qualifying EMT’s and first responder firefighter for two programs,” Baldwin said. - PUB DATE: 7/19/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WEAU-TV NBC 13 Eau Claire
It’s like a gym for your brain.
As issues like anxiety, depression and restless sleep have spiked during the pandemic, some people are turning to neurofeedback, a kind of gym for the brain. It’s a method that practitioners and some clients say can improve symptoms associated with everything from concussions to ADHD. - PUB DATE: 7/19/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WPTV NBC 5 West Palm Beach
VIDEO: Flames, smoke and natural gas worked together to create a huge challenge for San Antonio firefighters early Friday morning.
They were called to the 400 block of Gillmore around 5:30 a.m. and found heavy fire coming from a vacant building at the Preserve at the Port apartments.
“It did collapse. - PUB DATE: 7/16/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KSAT-TV ABC 12 San Antonio
VIDEO: Firefighters in Mobile are getting new equipment that could help save lives.
Mobile Fire-Rescue Public Information Officer Steven Millhouse explained the new device. He said, “Video laryngoscope. We use it for intubations in the field which would allow us to keep an airway open.”
Millhouse intubated a practice dummy while telling us about the new equipment. - PUB DATE: 7/16/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WKRG-TV CBS 5 Mobile
The teenager who was pulled from the rubble of the collapsed Surfside condominium was reunited with the first responders who helped rescue him.
New photos show Jonah Handler meeting with the first responders who came to his rescue shortly after the June 24 collapse of the Champlain Towers South. His father, Neil Handler, posted the photos on a GoFundMe page. - PUB DATE: 7/16/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WTVJ-TV NBC 6 Miami
The 9/11 Museum is dropping plans for special exhibitions to mark the 20th anniversary of the September 11 attacks this fall, because of a massive budget crisis.
"I see the memorial as a cemetery. The names on those brass plates are akin to a headstone. Where the name appears, sorry, is where they fell. - PUB DATE: 7/16/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WNYW-TV FOX 5 New York
VIDEO/PHOTOS: A major fire consumed multiple businesses along the 700 block of Johnnie Dodds Boulevard in Mount Pleasant early Thursday morning.
Multiple fire crews responded to Lafayette Village sometime around midnight. Flames were seen shooting through the roof of Jean's of Mount Pleasant Bridal Shop. - PUB DATE: 7/15/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WCIV-TV ABC 36 Charleston
The Peoria Fire-Medical Department has purchased a hazmat robot to avoid tragedies like the 2019 explosion at the APS McMicken energy storage facility that injured four Peoria firefighters.
The first of its kind in the United States, the robot was purchased with grant funds from the Tohono O’odham Nation. - PUB DATE: 7/15/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Peoria Times
Buildings are burning in Barstow at an unusually high rate. A chief city firefighter sees decades of economic deterioration and social despair — accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic — as the root cause.
Battalion Chief Nick DiNapoli joined the Barstow Fire Protection District nearly 40 years ago and says his team has been stretched thin for much of that time. - PUB DATE: 7/15/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Victorville Daily Press
General Motors is telling owners of some older Chevrolet Bolts to park them outdoors and not to charge them overnight because two of the electric cars caught fire after recall repairs were made.
The company said Wednesday that the request covers 2017 through 2019 Bolts that were part of a group that was recalled earlier due to fires in the batteries. - PUB DATE: 7/15/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WLNY-TV CBS 55 Riverhead
