A marina fire in Scottsboro, Alabama, earlier this year illustrated how such a situation can turn tragic in just minutes.
At 12:35 a.m. on January 27, 2020, a man living aboard a houseboat at Jackson County Park Marina awoke to a “popping” sound and smoke filled the cabin. According to the report from the National Transportation Safety Board, the owner told investigators he saw flames coming from the forward bulkhead near the vessel’s electrical panel. - PUB DATE: 11/13/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Marina Dock Age
VIDEO: The wife of a South Florida firefighter died after a fire broke out in their Homestead home Tuesday afternoon, fire officials confirmed Wednesday morning.
A GoFundMe created for the firefighter identifies him as Corey Logan. It states Logan has been with Miami-Dade Fire Rescue for over 20 years. - PUB DATE: 11/12/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WTVJ NBC 6 Miami
The FDNY will be ditching its disposable protective coronavirus masks for reusable ones, officials said Tuesday.
New elastomeric respirator masks will be distributed to Emergency Medical Service members and firefighters in the weeks to come, Fire Commissioner Daniel Nigro said. “This is a substantial piece of equipment, but it will take us out of the supply chain for N95 masks that the whole world uses,” Nigro told the Daily News. - PUB DATE: 11/12/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: New York Daily News - Metered Site
VIDEO: Crews responded to what they described as a stubborn fire at an abandoned building in New Haven.
Officials said the fire broke out Thursday morning on the 200 block of Winthrop Avenue.
The call originally came in around 3 a.m. as a brush fire.
First responders arrived and found flames in one of the buildings. - PUB DATE: 11/12/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WFSB-TV CBS 3 Hartford
Three first responders were hit while responding to a crash in Frederick County that left a motorcyclist with life-threatening injuries, the Frederick County Division of Fire and Rescue Services said Tuesday.
First responders were called to the scene of a crash involving a motorcycle in the 12900 block of Stottlemyer Road near Wolfsville just after 4:30 p. - PUB DATE: 11/12/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WJZ-TV CBS 13 Baltimore
As hospitals in the state reach capacity and face dire staff shortages, North Dakota will now allow healthcare workers who have tested positive for COVID-19 to continue working in coronavirus units, officials announced this week.
Hospital administrators have asked for the extraordinary action to be taken, Governor Doug Burgum said at a Monday press conference, and interim State Health Officer Dirk Wilke amended an order to allow the new measure to take effect. - PUB DATE: 11/12/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: NBC News
A member of the Easton Township Fire Department was killed in a crash Sunday night while he was on his way to a fire, according to an official with the Leavenworth County Sheriff’s Office.
Johnny Ivison Jr., 23, rural Leavenworth County, was pronounced dead at the scene. The crash was reported at 10:07 p. - PUB DATE: 11/10/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Leavenworth Times
Alameda Fire Department’s (AFD) Seagrave Model 760 pumper is approaching an important milestone. Dec. 20 marks the 100th anniversary of AFD placing the apparatus in service as Engine No. 2. Seagrave’s creation was one of a pair of triple-combination pumpers that the department purchased in the wake of the Jan. - PUB DATE: 11/10/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Alameda Sun
Fighting fires comes with many risks. But new research shows there's a new one to consider: increased exposure to fires appears to raise the likelihood of developing atrial fibrillation, or AFib, an irregular heartbeat that can lead to blood clots, stroke, heart failure and other problems.
Researchers found the more fires a firefighter fought, the higher the likelihood he or she would report having been diagnosed with AFib. - PUB DATE: 11/10/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Times Union
VIDEO: No injuries were reported Monday after fire destroyed the Rainbow Motel in the town of Pamelia.
Volunteers from several fire departments were called to the motel on Route 12 at around 1 p.m. The black cloud could be seen a mile away. The heat was so strong, it could be felt across the street, hundreds of feet away. - PUB DATE: 11/10/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WWNY-TV CBS 7 Carthage
Throughout the U.S., hospitals and health care workers are tracking the skyrocketing number of new coronavirus cases in their communities and bracing for a flood of patients to come in the wake of those infections. Already, seriously ill COVID-19 patients are starting to fill up hospital beds at unsustainable rates. - PUB DATE: 11/10/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Jefferson Public Radio
VIDEO: The Alameda County Fire Department was battling a warehouse fire overnight Monday in San Leandro.
By 1:25 a.m., about 50 firefighters were on the scene to fight the large blaze at a Georgia Pacific packaging plant on Alvarado Street. When KRON4 arrived on scene, crews were putting out hot spots and it was finally put out around 5 a. - PUB DATE: 11/9/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KRON-TV 4 San Francisco
Sixty-two firefighters died in 2019 from injuries sustained while on duty, 22 less than the 2018 total of 84 firefighters, according to a new report from the U.S. Fire Administration.
The 2019 total includes 10 firefighters who died under circumstances that were part of inclusion criteria changes resulting from the Hometown Heroes Survivors Benefit Act. - PUB DATE: 11/9/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Homeland Security Today
Bob Perkins of the Winthrop Fire Department says his wife grows nervous when he and his firefighter sons Connor, 22, and Cody, 19, get called to fires or other emergencies.
“By now, she’s sorta used to it, but she still gets pretty nervous sometimes,” he said, “and she ends up listening to the pager. - PUB DATE: 11/9/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Sun Journal
In an unprecedented weekend of COVID-19 infections, nearly all of the US is seeing cases rise as the national total teeters near 10 million.
There were 105,927 new coronavirus cases reported on Sunday, marking the 5th day in a row that cases topped 100,000, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. - PUB DATE: 11/9/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: CNN
Did you know that for over a century the fire trucks in Opelousas had names? That used to be a custom in this town as well as many other towns and cities across the U.S.
Let’s talk about that.
Several days ago I received a message from Debbie Harmon Payne asking if I would know who the Opelousas fire truck “Sid” was named for. - PUB DATE: 11/9/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Daily World
Compared to the general public, New York City firefighters and emergency medical workers were 15 times more likely to be infected with the new coronavirus during the first wave of the pandemic, researchers reported on Thursday in ERJ Open Research. They studied nearly 10,800 firefighters and 3,500 emergency medical technicians (EMTs) and paramedics. - PUB DATE: 11/6/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Reuters
A Delray Beach firefighter is sharing his story of survival from cancer in an emotional post on Facebook.
Throughout November, the agency is telling stories about firefighters who have battled cancer. They said it part of an effort to increase awareness of the disease and the importance of prevention for everyone. - PUB DATE: 11/6/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WPTV NBC 5 West Palm Beach
The Rutgers School of Public Health received a $1.5 million Federal Emergency Management Agency grant to support cancer research for volunteer firefighters.
The funding will enhance research already being done in collaboration with Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey as part of the Cancer Assessment and Prevention Study. - PUB DATE: 11/6/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Rutgers Today
For the past 24 years in Haskell, Texas, Steel Fire Apparatus has been transforming trucks into firefighting machines.
“But we take it and add the bed, the tool boxes, the pump, the water,” Wes Steele, owner, said.
But before they’re ready to fight brush fires, everything starts with Wes designing the truck on the computer based on a fire department’s needs. - PUB DATE: 11/6/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KRBC-TV NBC 9 Abilene
