VIDEO: Last week, the Southern Tier Harley-Davidson got the opportunity to assist in the rebuild of the famous 9/11 Harley Super Glide. New York Fire Department Firefighter and Navy Veteran Tim Duffy rode his 200 HD FXDX Harley-Davidson motorcycle as a way to quickly get to the scene of the first fallen tower to help save lives.
- PUB DATE: 9/1/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WBNG-TV CBS/CW+ 12 Binghamton

A young man, dressed in a heavy fire-resistant jacket, sits tensed on a fire truck, poised for action. As the vehicle approaches the scene, he takes in the view. Thick gray smoke billows upward from a small house and bright orange flames lick the roof. His heart pounds in his chest as adrenaline pumps through his body.
- PUB DATE: 9/1/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: DVIDS

VIDEO: High school teams around the state are working hard to get in tip-top shape for their season. On Wednesday, the Billings Senior volleyball team got some help from the Billings Fire Department. On Wednesday afternoon, the Lady Broncs came to the fire station to test their fitness and strength in a firefighter workout.
- PUB DATE: 9/1/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KULR-TV NBC 8 Billings

For hundreds of local police officers, firefighters and other emergency workers in Kenosha County, 911 dispatchers are the critical link between them and the public they serve. Employed by the city-county Joint Services, a merger that has been in effect since 1982, dispatchers are also in short supply.
- PUB DATE: 8/31/2022 5:00:00 PM - SOURCE: The Journal Times - Metered Site

Following record-breaking wildfires throughout New Mexico this summer, Wisconsin volunteers responded to help repair the damages, according to the Wisconsin Department of Military Affairs (DMA). DMA said Wisconsin Emergency Management (WEM) teams went to New Mexico after the state Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management put out a call for assistance in recovering from the fires.
- PUB DATE: 8/31/2022 2:17:10 PM - SOURCE: WMTV NBC 15 Madison

A Milwaukee man has been charged in connection to a homicide and house fire that happened on the city's north side Aug. 25. A warrant is out for his arrest. Prosecutors accuse 47-year-old Ernest Terrell Blakney of shooting and killing his ex-girlfriend before setting his home on fire near 83rd and Vienna.
- PUB DATE: 8/31/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WITI-TV FOX 6 Milwaukee

A report of a child on a log in Lake Michigan in Port Washington Tuesday, Aug. 30 sent first responders to South Beach Park. As of 8 p.m., the search was called off after no child was located and there were no reports of a child missing in the area. Police said a 911 call came in shortly before 3 p.
- PUB DATE: 8/31/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WITI-TV FOX 6 Milwaukee

Wednesday is International Overdose Awareness day, a day to recognize the people that have been affected or lost their lives to the tragedy. Beginning at 10 a.m., local city and community leaders, including Mayor Cavalier Johnson and Fire Chief Aaron Lipski, will meet at Milwaukee's Samad's House for one of three pop-up memorial events to speak on the importance of creating programs that help stop the growing problem of overdoses in our area.
- PUB DATE: 8/31/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WTMJ-TV NBC 4 Milwaukee

VIDEO: At least eight people are without a home after a large fire burned through a multi-family house in Lynn on Tuesday. Crews were called to the home on Allerton Street sometime after 5 p.m., where footage from Sky7 showed large sections of the multi-story building’s roof engulfed in flames. At one point, Lynn Fire pulled their crews from the building, as both the roof and attic showed signs they were going to collapse.
- PUB DATE: 8/31/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WHDH-TV ABC 7 Boston

VIDEO: A team of three Farmington first responders are getting ready to compete in an international race, but this isn’t an ordinary race – it’s a trip across the Atlantic Ocean on a row boat. 45 teams will row from Africa to the Caribbean in December. The goal of the first responders is not to win, but rather to raise awareness for an important Four Corners cause.
- PUB DATE: 8/31/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KOB-TV NBC 4 Albuquerque

The 2020 helicopter crash in the hills of Calabasas that took the lives of NBA Lakers legend Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter Gianna; Sarah and Payton Chester; Keri, John and Alyssa Altobelli; Christina Mauser, and pilot Ara Zobayan sent shock waves across the world. But the unimaginable pain and grief sustained by Bryant’s widow, Vanessa Bryant, was compounded when graphic photos from the crash scene were shared by Los Angeles County deputies and firefighters with each other, some of their spouses, and in one instance with a bartender at a bar where a deputy was drinking.
- PUB DATE: 8/31/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Los Angeles Daily News - Metered Site

Aug. 31 is Overdose Awareness Day, and News4JAX is teaming up with local organizations hoping to save lives. The main culprit behind the surge in overdose cases we’re seeing in our area is fentanyl. As Director of Pharmacy at Orange Park Hospital, Dr. Jodie Graves works to save lives every day. But one life that couldn’t be saved was that of her adult stepdaughter.
- PUB DATE: 8/31/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WJXT-TV News 4 Jacksonville

Polaris Inc. announced that 230,000 snowmobiles need to be checked again by authorized dealers due to a fire hazard from faulty fuel tanks. The company determined that degraded fuel and extended storage increases the likelihood of an incident to occur from static discharge within the snowmobile tank.
- PUB DATE: 8/31/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Bring Me The News

A referendum planned for ballots in Richfield to increase taxes, in order to hire five additional full-time firefighters in the Richfield Volunteer Fire Company, has been nixed due to potential unionization of the department creating unknown potential costs there. The Richfield Village Board met Thursday evening, and received information from the Richfield Volunteer Fire Company Board of Directors about the possible unionization of the RVFC.
- PUB DATE: 8/30/2022 5:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Washington County Daily News

VIDEO: The Appleton Boy Scouts who helped in the rescue effort after the Amtrak train derailment this past June in Missouri were honored Monday. As the American Red Cross honors local heroes, the scouts took the top honor in the youth category after a rescue that caught the entire country’s attention.
- PUB DATE: 8/30/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WBAY-TV ABC 2 Green Bay

A man is dead after an ATV crash on Monday in Rusk County. According to the Rusk County Sheriff’s Office, Jay Holcomb of Bruce was pronounced dead at Marshfield Medical Center in Rice Lake after being pinned under his ATV. First responders found Holcomb and his ATV near County Highway H and Sentinal Ash Road about five miles north of Bruce at 8:45 p.
- PUB DATE: 8/30/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WEAU-TV NBC 13 Madison

Parents came out to Chippewa Falls High School Monday night to hear from police on how they would respond to a critical situation. The forum had representatives from the Chippewa Falls police and fire departments as well as from other local schools to discuss what the plan would be if a crisis like an active shooter event were to happen.
- PUB DATE: 8/30/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WEAU-TV NBC 13 Madison

Fire destroyed apartments that were under construction in Rockwall County Tuesday morning. Six multi-level units caught fire near the southwest corner of Interstate 30 and FM 551 in Fate around 5:30 a.m. The flames could be seen from miles away and quickly consumed the partially complete structures.
- PUB DATE: 8/30/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KDFW-TV FOX 4 Dallas

VIDEO: Two Fishers firefighters have discovered a way to honor America and their fellow first responders, while also showing off their artistic side and making a little extra money on the side. Firefighters Scott Carr and Rob Demlow are making American flags completely out of old firehoses. "Fire departments around [the country], when a section of [fire]hose goes bad, whether it's in a fire or during training, they're just taking them off the truck and throwing them away," Carr said.
- PUB DATE: 8/30/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WTHR-TV NBC 13 Indianapolis

Two paramedics with the San Francisco Fire Department had their ambulance attacked by a man they claim randomly approached them. As of now, SFFD does not know of any motive behind this attack. "From what it sounds like this was just random," said Tim Finch, one of the directors with San Francisco Fire Union 798.
- PUB DATE: 8/30/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KGO-TV ABC 7 San Francisco