The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) has released a new report, “Fatal Firefighter Injuries in the U.S. in 2022”, which showed a total of 96 on-duty U.S. firefighter fatalities in 2022. Of these deaths, 51 were volunteer firefighters, 38 were career firefighters, six were contractors for federal or state land management agencies, and one was a full-time federal land management employee. - PUB DATE: 6/23/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Sierra Sun Times
The legacy of Darien-EMS Post 53 is a long one for many of the teenagers who staff it.
“Growing up in Darien, you've known what Post is since you were a little kid,” 15-year-old Marin Nehro, a first-year volunteer, said. “Most of the people in here have wanted to do it for a really long time.”
For the past 53 years, teenagers like Nehro have provided the town of Darien with much of its emergency medical service, helping deliver babies, navigate a global pandemic and provide lifesaving care to their community. - PUB DATE: 6/23/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Darien Times - Metered Site
VIDEO: For a second year in a row, the Horry County Fire Rescue team was designated as a Fire Safe South Carolina community.
Fire Safe South Carolina is a Palmetto state original. The program is not only designed to teach the public how to stay safe, but to also get firefighters into the communities they serve. - PUB DATE: 6/23/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WMBF-TV NBC 32 Myrtle Beach
VIDEO/PHOTOS: A hailstorm rained down on people attending a concert at Red Rocks Wednesday night. Large hail stones pummeled concertgoers just before 9:30 p.m., sending seven people to the hospital. That was before performer Louis Tomlinson took the stage, and the concert had to be canceled.
"It started like an instant. - PUB DATE: 6/23/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: CBS News
A massive fire at a North Side apartment complex has sent two people to the hospital and forced more than a dozen others out of their homes early Thursday morning, according to the San Antonio Fire Department.
The fire was called in just before 3 a.m. at the ICON Apartments in the 1300 block of Patricia Drive, not far from both Blanco Road and Churchill High School. - PUB DATE: 6/22/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KSAT-TV ABC 12 San Antonio
Chitvan Killawala and Umer Bakali want to help protect firefighters from a potential threat.
Their strategy to do so does not involve creating a better forcible-entry axe or a thicker face shield but deploying a device no bigger than a USB flash drive.
The two University of Miami graduate students have developed a special sensor capable of detecting the real-time presence of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in the warm zone at structural fires. - PUB DATE: 6/22/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: University of Miami
As warehouses continue to pop up in western Hancock County, local fire departments are sounding the alarm. The firefighter’s union said they simply don’t have the staff to fight fires at those massive buildings.
At 2.2 million square feet, a brand-new Walmart distribution center in western Hancock County is the largest in the world. - PUB DATE: 6/22/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WXIN-TV FOX 59 Indianapolis
Missouri’s first responders could be in store for extra help when seeking mental health services. A bill awaiting a decision from Gov. Mike Parson would broaden an existing firefighter cancer trust fund to also help cover mental health services for other first responders, including 911 operators.
Sen. - PUB DATE: 6/22/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Missourinet
VIDEO: The cause of Tuesday night’s massive apartment complex fire in the southwest Las Vegas valley is still under investigation.
A statement on Wednesday from the company building the unfinished project thanked the Clark County Fire Department for their work in investigating the blaze.
“The Associates of Martin-Harris Construction are disheartened by the fire on June 20, 2023, at our Kaktus Life III Project Site. - PUB DATE: 6/22/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KLAS-TV CBS 8 Las Vegas
PHOTOS: Dozens of Clark County Fire Department units responded on Tuesday afternoon after a large fire broke out at an apartment complex under construction in the southwest Las Vegas Valley at approximately 4:29 p.m.
CCFD reported at least 20 units responded to a two-alarm fire on the 8000 block of W. - PUB DATE: 6/21/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KVVU-TV FOX 5 Henderson
A pioneering firefighter is getting some overdue recognition.
The Mississippi Senate and the City of Starkville have honored former Starkville fire Chief Willie Johnson with a resolution from the state.
Johnson was the first African American fire chief in the state of Mississippi. Johnson’s legacy began in 1988 when he took on the unprecedented role. - PUB DATE: 6/21/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WCBI-TV CBS 4 Columbus
With the Maryland State Firemen's Association Convention in town, a possible name change is looming. Some feel a simple change to 'Firefighter' would be more inclusive for women.
The MSFA said this is not the first time they have heard this proposal and that a name change is 100% on the table this year. - PUB DATE: 6/21/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WBOC-TV CBS/FOX 16 Salisbury
VIDEO: Six months ago, someone dropped off a newborn baby in Florida’s only Safe Haven box located at Ocala Fire Rescue Station 1.
Today, Baby Zoey is a happy and healthy little girl in large part thanks to the Safe Haven Baby Box and the rescuer who opened the box, who would become her adoptive father. - PUB DATE: 6/21/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WKMG-TV CBS 6 Orlando
His girlfriend told him not to buy the electric scooter.
But Alfonso Villa Muñoz was intrigued. He was working in a Brooklyn bodega last August when a delivery man said he knew someone selling one for $700. Mr. Muñoz said yes.
The scooter was cherry red with the number 7 on the front. Under the seat was an extra-large lithium ion battery. - PUB DATE: 6/21/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: New York Times - Metered Site
New video from NewsChopper 9 shows what's left of a warehouse following a four-alarm fire last week.
It took nearly 24 hours for Kansas City firefighters to get the fire at Pioneer Pallet under control. Three firefighters were hospitalized with injuries and nearly 200 were needed to combat it.
Flames shot up more than 100-feet in the air at the peak of the fire. - PUB DATE: 6/20/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KMBC-TV ABC 9 Kansas City
VIDEO/PHOTOS: Impossible means nothing to one firefighter in Lawrence, Massachusetts, who is now back to the job he loves after a serious injury nearly killed him.
The amputee is officially suiting up, fulltime.
“Firefighting means everything to me,” said Miguel Baez, who has worked at the department for more than two decades. - PUB DATE: 6/20/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WBTS-TV NBC 10 Nashua
The Perryton Fire/EMS station is destroyed after an EF-3 tornado struck the town on Thursday evening, and now the department is looking for a new location.
Perryton Fire Chief Paul Dutcher said two firefighters were on duty when the tornado hit. “They did manage to make it into the storm shelter into the stairwell. - PUB DATE: 6/20/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KAMR-TV NBC 4 Amarillo
PHOTOS: Typically, when people call 911 in emergencies, communication with a dispatcher is limited to voice only.
But those calling the Ravenna police and fire dispatch center with a cellphone now have the option of providing dispatchers with a livestream video of an incident, thanks to new software. - PUB DATE: 6/20/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Record-Courier - Metered Site
Firefighters battled a heavy fire that tore through the roof of a commercial building in downtown Los Angeles.
The fire broke out at the building in the 700 block of East 9th Street between San Pedro and Crocker streets.
Video captured by AIR7HD showed flames rising from the roof, spreading smoke through the area nearby. - PUB DATE: 6/16/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KABC-TV ABC 7 Los Angeles
PHOTOS: Four old FDNY aerial fire trucks were set to be scrapped and sat rusting at Camp’s salvage yard in Wayne…but one of them was special. It was a rig from FDNY Firehouse Engine 279 & Ladder 131 in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn and emblazoned on its side panel was a memorial for five firefighters who died on 9/11. - PUB DATE: 6/16/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: TAP into Wayne
