A California woman was saved after her car crashed off a 200-foot cliff on Christmas Day thanks in part to her iPhone's location tracking feature, the San Bernardino County Fire Department said.
The woman likely crashed her vehicle driving home from a family gathering overnight on Christmas Day, according to a press release from the fire department. - PUB DATE: 1/3/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: ABC News
Emmanuel Mielke was nervous when he started his first day as a firefighter in February at a station in downtown Madison.
But he had a head start. Mielke already met some of his colleagues when they were his instructors at the NextGen Responders Academy, an emergency medical responder and fire training certification program for high schoolers. - PUB DATE: 1/3/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Wisconsin Public Radio
VIDEO: The smoke detectors woke up Gina Harris around 1:30 a.m. Wednesday.
There was a smell of smoke in her unit.
She called 911 when she couldn’t get the detectors to stop.
Soon, she was standing in the street watching part of her condo complex burn.
Dallas Fire-Rescue said the fire at Parkway Quarter Condominiums, off the Dallas North Tollway between Keller Springs and Arapaho, was out by 5 a. - PUB DATE: 12/22/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WFAA-TV ABC 8 Dallas
It is with great sadness that the Fire Engineering/FDIC International and Clarion Events family announces the unexpected passing of Chief (Ret.) Bobby Halton, editor in chief of Fire Engineering and Educational Director for FDIC. Chief Halton passed away at his home in Oklahoma Monday night, December 19th, 2022. - PUB DATE: 12/22/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Fire Engineering
VIDEO: Tuesday's train derailment in Collegedale closed roads and created challenges for cleanup crews and motorists.
Ten train cars and three locomotives derailed when the train crashed into a truck carrying a concrete beam. It caused a massive diesel spill at the crossing on College Drive East and Apison Pike. - PUB DATE: 12/22/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WRCB-TV NBC 3 Chattanooga
VIDEO: Sasha, an 8-year-old Czechoslovakian German Shepherd, is the first pet in Beckley to try out a new oxygen mask, made just for pets.
Her handler, Jerry Johnson of the Raleigh County Community Emergency Response Team, reached out to the company, Invisible Fence, to get a free mask kit for Beckley Fire Department, through a program called Project Breathe. - PUB DATE: 12/22/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WVNS-TV CBS/FOX/MyNetworkTV 59 Lewisburg
The Air Force has grounded its entire fleet of B-2 stealth bombers following an emergency landing and fire earlier this month, and none of the strategic aircraft will perform flyovers at this years' college bowl games.
A bomber experienced an in-flight malfunction on Dec. 10, forcing it to make an emergency landing at Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri, where it caught fire. - PUB DATE: 12/22/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KNBC-TV NBC 4 Los Angeles
A fire that started in a strip mall early Wednesday morning drew more than 50 firefighters and a dozen fire engines to respond to the scene, according to the Louisville Fire Department.
The firefighters were dispatched at 4:04 a.m. to a facility with an attached garage and multiple stores at S. 18th and W. - PUB DATE: 12/21/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Courier Journal - Metered Site
VIDEO: The Tulsa Fire Department (TFD) has updated their physical ability test for any candidate who wants to be a part of the department.
It’s a test of physical and mental strength, and it must be passed before candidates can move on to the interview portion of the process.
Up until January 2022, TFD did a candidate physical ability test of its own, but now the Oklahoma State Firefighter’s Pension Board requires every department in the state to align with these tests. - PUB DATE: 12/21/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KOKI-TV FOX 23 Tulsa
PHOTOS: It was May 22, 2:00 p.m., I'm 9 years old, waiting on a Thursday afternoon for the school day to end. I've lived my whole— short —life in Lakewood, a new suburb incorporated in 1954. There are square miles of the same kind of neighborhood in every direction.
I rode my bike to school and will ride it back. - PUB DATE: 12/21/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KCET-TV PBS 28 Los Angeles
The Mobile Fire-Rescue Department will be the first in the state to have a “portable, handheld, ultrasound system,” in their ambulances, according to a release from the MFRD.
The department is partnering with Butterfly Network. The digital health company introduced the Butterfly iQ+ which is a “portable, handheld, ultrasound system that is designed to provide emergency, medical providers with real-time, internal visualizations of patients; thus, forever changing out-of-hospital patient care. - PUB DATE: 12/21/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WKRG-TV CBS 5 Mobile
VIDEO: A Harford County woman convicted of setting a town home on fire, killing four people, was sentenced to life in prison Tuesday.
Bobbie Sue Hodge was convicted of setting a deadly fire to a three-story Edgewood house along Simons Ct. back on May 9, 2019 around 2:30 a.m.
Three people on the top floor did not survive. - PUB DATE: 12/21/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WJZ-TV CBS 13 Baltimore
VIDEO: Two people were hospitalized Monday morning after swimming to shore to escape a massive fire that destroyed several boats near a marina in Hollywood.
Hollywood Police said officers arrived at the scene at 700 Polk Street in the middle of North Lake just before 1:30 a.m. after reports of at least three boats in flames. - PUB DATE: 12/20/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WTVJ-TV NBC 6 Miami
VIDEO: A tractor-trailer hit a fire engine on Monday while crews were on the scene of a crash on Interstate 85, according to the Greensboro Fire Department.
No one was inside Engine 61 when it was hit.
No one was hurt, including the driver of the tractor-trailer.
The fire truck was heavily damaged, but crews were able to drive it back to the fire station. - PUB DATE: 12/20/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WGHP-TV FOX 8 High Point
A Buffalo firefighter returns to work this week after he settled his wrongful termination lawsuit with the City of Buffalo and the fire department, which terminated him in 2021 for testing positive for cannabis despite being a registered medical patient.
Scott Martin, an Air Force veteran who served two tours in the Middle East, was a Buffalo EMT and firefighter for over a decade, when he got suspended in December 2020 for testing positive for cannabis on a random workplace test. - PUB DATE: 12/20/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WIVB-TV CBS 4 Buffalo
PHOTOS/VIDEO: The block parties and judging contests in the SF Fire Department holiday decoration contest are scheduled for Wednesday, and these five SF Fire stations are decked out with gushers of yuletide razzle-dazzle that you won’t want to miss.
The last two holiday seasons have harked and heralded back to the late 1940s, as in that era, an old-time holiday decorations contest lit up San Francisco Fire Department stations all over town. - PUB DATE: 12/20/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: SFist
Fire crews in Maple Grove knocked down a large fire early Sunday morning that burned at a building belonging to a soil supplier.
The Maple Grove Fire Department was called just after 4:30 p.m. for a report of a fire at a campground on Brockton Lane North. However, when crews arrived they determined the fire was actually burning at a building belonging to a soil supplier called Commercial Black Dirt Inc. - PUB DATE: 12/19/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KMSP-TV FOX 9 Minneapolis
The Unified Fire Authority's newest station in Midvale was designed with mental health in mind.
Station 125, located at 655 W. Center Street, not only features private rooms and bathrooms for firefighters working long hours, but also larger common rooms.
Capt. Kelly Millard said those areas will help to build a sense of connection throughout his team. - PUB DATE: 12/19/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KSL-TV NBC 5 Salt Lake City
VIDEO: Thirty-six people were injured Sunday, including 11 seriously, when a Hawaiian Airlines flight from Phoenix to Honolulu hit severe turbulence about 30 minutes before landing.
The turbulence sent passengers flying out of their seats.
Paramedics and emergency medical technicians treated patients — ranging in age from 14 months to adults — for a long list of injuries, including serious head injuries, cuts, bruises, nausea, and loss of consciousness. - PUB DATE: 12/19/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Hawaii News Now
Matt Greer of Brookhaven was driving home from his shift at the Mississippi Center for Emergency Services, where he works as a flight nurse, when he got a call from his younger sister. A few days earlier, she had given birth to a healthy baby girl after an uncomplicated pregnancy. Now, she told him she had a headache. - PUB DATE: 12/19/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Mississippi Today
