VIDEO: Video calls with 911 dispatchers may soon be a reality in Albuquerque. The city’s fire rescue agency is looking to launch a new online video platform that they hope will help free up firefighter paramedics in the field. “This would give our dispatchers the ability to actually see the patient on scene,” said AFR’s EMS Division Chief Chris Ortiz. - PUB DATE: 6/20/2024 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KRQE-TV CBS 13 Albuquerque
The U.S. Senate passed S.870, the Fire Grants and Safety Act of 2023, sending it to President Biden to be signed into law.
S.870 incorporates language from H.R. 4090, the Fire Grants and Safety Act of 2023, introduced by Science Committee member Tom Kean (R-NJ). The bill will support and advance firefighter and first responder services across the nation, providing a five-year reauthorization for the U. - PUB DATE: 6/20/2024 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology
A vacant building in northwest Atlanta caught fire late Monday afternoon, according to Atlanta fire officials.
The fire was reported at 350 Troy St. NW, near Joseph E. Boone Boulevard NW. First Alert Chopper captured scenes of the massive fire, including most of the flames being put out. Atlanta fire officials said crews launched a “defensive fire attack,” which officials said is for when fire conditions prevent firefighters from getting inside a building. - PUB DATE: 6/18/2024 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WANF-TV CBS 46 Atlanta
VIDEO: For first responders, the difference between life and death can be a matter of seconds. For some fire and EMS departments in North Texas, an app can now help them treat patients more quickly.
At North Richland Hills, crews are launching the Pulsara app.
It starts with a coded wristband for each patient. - PUB DATE: 6/18/2024 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KXAS-TV NBC 5 Fort Worth
PHOTOS: Firefighters responded to a call from their own as a blaze broke out in a Staten Island firehouse in Westerleigh late Monday afternoon.
According to the FDNY, a “verbal alarm” was received just after 5:30 p.m. for a report of a possible electrical fire in the basement at 875 Jewett Ave. — the location of Engine Co. - PUB DATE: 6/18/2024 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: SILive.com
Sarah Reasoner, Martha Fecht and Megan Roesler Turner have very different backgrounds and came to consider careers as St. Paul firefighters in very different ways.
Reasoner was a track and field All-American and onetime bodybuilder and powerlifter who wanted a career with a deeper purpose. Fecht, a St. - PUB DATE: 6/18/2024 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Star Tribune - Metered Site
PHOTOS: Last Monday morning, a fiery rollover crash off state Route 210 in Little Cottonwood Canyon closed the road for hours.
Witnesses didn’t think anyone could have survived the explosion, but one Unified police officer ran into the flames to make a daring rescue.
A supervisor from the Unified Police Department identified officer Wilson from the Canyon Patrol Unit as the hero who rushed in to rescue a driver pinned in the burning semitruck. - PUB DATE: 6/17/2024 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KSL-TV NBC 5 Salt Lake City
VIDEO/PHOTOS: Tuesday will mark 17 years since nine of Charleston’s bravest were killed while responding to a massive furniture store fire off Savannah Highway.
The Charleston Fire Department (CFD) will honor the fallen with a ceremony held annually at the Charleston 9 Memorial Park. The park was established where the Sofa Super Store once stood. - PUB DATE: 6/17/2024 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WCBD-TV NBC/CW+ 2 Charleston
VIDEO: We've all heard the saying, "I want to be like dad," but a firefighting family trio in Louisville are taking the phrase to the next level.
Major Bryan Stotts, a district chief for the Louisville Fire Department, is still actively serving on the team and so are his two sons Sergeant Caleb Stotts and Oliver Stotts. - PUB DATE: 6/17/2024 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WHAS-TV ABC 11 Louisville
VIDEO: The Northeast and Midwest, including New York City and Boston, are bracing for what could be the hottest stretch of weather in 30 years this week as a sweltering heat dome settles over a large part of the nation.
Over the next six days, 265 million people, or about 82% of the U.S. population, are likely to experience temperatures topping 90 degrees as the official first day of summer arrives on Thursday. - PUB DATE: 6/17/2024 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: ABC News
VIDEOS/PHOTO: Gasoline spilled out from an unsecured hatch on the top of the gasoline delivery tanker that overturned and ignited beneath an Interstate 95 bridge in Philadelphia a year ago, according to new details from federal investigators.
Video evidence obtained by investigators shows the cover to the 16-inch "manhole" was open when driver Nathan Moody arrived at a Wilmington, Delaware, terminal to refill the tank and it was still not properly secured when he drove away to deliver it to a convenience store in Philadelphia, about 42 miles (68 kilometers) away. - PUB DATE: 6/14/2024 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WPVI-TV ABC 6 Philadelphia
VIDEO/PHOTOS: An inspiring story of innovation and technology — two of the E.M.I.L.Y. devices, a revolutionary life-saving drone, have been donated to both Silver Beach and New Buffalo.
The new technology was unveiled Monday afternoon in St. Joseph.
Beach staff from both St. Joe and New Buffalo, along with other emergency responders, are training with the new drone. - PUB DATE: 6/14/2024 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WWMT-TV CBS 3 Kalamazoo
PHOTOS: While two triple-decker house fires left dozens displaced and two people dead, houses of this design do not make up the majority of the state’s residential fires, the State Fire Marshal’s office told MassLive.
Triple-decker homes were originally built for factory workers and have been a common form of housing for over a century, GBH reported in 2022. - PUB DATE: 6/14/2024 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Republican - MassLive
Evidence that Word Trade Center (WTC) responders during 9/11 and its aftermath have since suffered poorer brain health than others not exposed to WTC toxins has mounted in recent years. A new study led by Stony Brook University researchers that evaluates more than 5,000 WTC responders indicates that those who had more exposures to WTC-related toxins have dementia at a higher rate than other responders with fewer WTC-related toxic exposures. - PUB DATE: 6/14/2024 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Stony Brook University News
A recycling business in Kilgore was burning Wednesday night. Kilgore, Sabine, and White Oak fire departments were working to extinguish a structure fire at Rivers Recycling. The facility is located at 298 FM 1252 West in Kilgore.
Kilgore Fire Marshal Ryan Riley says dispatch received the call reporting a structure fire just before 6 p. - PUB DATE: 6/13/2024 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KLTV ABC 7 Tyler
VIDEO: Firefighters in South Los Angeles said they had to physically fight a man off after he attacked a fire truck in a caught-on-camera confrontation.
A Station 16 fire truck was on its way to respond to a crash when the man suddenly climbed aboard the fire engine.
“We were literally responding to a traffic collision and this guy just came out of nowhere, jumped in front of the engine and just started punching it,” said Andrew Chaing, a firefighter/paramedic who was in the truck at the time of the incident. - PUB DATE: 6/13/2024 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KNBC-TV NBC 4 Los Angeles
PHOTOS: Seattle firefighter Denny Kimball has found a passion that ignites his creativity and inspires station solidarity.
The veteran firefighter uses his artistic talent to create patches for fire stations, from an homage to Jimi Hendrix to a Green Lake swamp creature.
Kimball's unique patch designs reflect the gritty and heroic nature of firefighting. - PUB DATE: 6/13/2024 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Seattle Refined
High school seniors Emma Ehrens and Grace Fischer will hear their names read out today as they are called to collect their diplomas and start the next chapter of their lives.
But they are also steeling themselves to hear 20 other names of former classmates who never got to leave first grade, let alone plan for college and grow into adulthood. - PUB DATE: 6/12/2024 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: CNN
PHOTOS: The Utica Fire Department is celebrating their 150th anniversary this month and Deputy Fire Chief John R. Kelly recently took the Daily Sentinel on a trip down memory lane. Kelly said the early 1900s saw great change to the fire service and the world because of the invention of the motor vehicle. - PUB DATE: 6/12/2024 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Rome Sentinel - Metered Site
VIDEOS: A fire that crews believe was caused by lightning left a large hole in a mansion located in western Delray Beach on Tuesday.
According to Palm Beach County Fire Rescue, units were dispatched to the 10000 block of El Paraiso Place at about 12:19 p.m. WPTV crews at the scene spotted multiple firetrucks at the entrance to the Tierra Del Rey Estates South community. - PUB DATE: 6/12/2024 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WPTV NBC 5 West Palm Beach
