VIDEO: An Oklahoma City firefighter who lost a fellow firefighter to lung cancer will participate in the American Lung Association’s outdoor Fight For Air Climb in Oklahoma to raise money for research. Cpl. Zach Rowell has witnessed both triumph and tragedy in the battle against lung cancer. He lost a colleague to the disease, but his father survived it.
- PUB DATE: 3/31/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KFOR-TV NBC 4 Oklahoma

VIDEO: Buffalo Firefighters struck three alarms for additional personnel and equipment to handle a fire that broke out Tuesday morning on Bailey Avenue near Clinton Street. Firefighters were called to the scene just after 10:50 a.m. Photos from the scene showed heavy smoke coming from a bowling alley/restaurant known as the Bowl Inn Pizza and Lanes in the 700 block of Bailey Avenue.
- PUB DATE: 3/31/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WGRZ-TV NBC 2 Buffalo

VIDEO: After months of waiting and anticipating the reveal of the new Hattiesburg fire engine, the day finally came Tuesday. The truck is not your average fire truck. The Southern Miss-themed engine is painted black and gold with the USM Golden Eagle logo on its side. The colors were chosen to signify the great relationship between the university and the city of Hattiesburg.
- PUB DATE: 3/31/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WDAM-TV NBC/ABC 7 Hattiesburg

VIDEO: A family was reunited with special belongings left behind after a fire caused them to leave their house more than a decade ago. This wouldn’t have been possible, however, without the eagerness of a Savannah firefighter who made it her mission to put the treasures back into the right hands. The house that once stood there was being used by the Savannah Fire Department for training exercises.
- PUB DATE: 3/31/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WTOC-TV CBS 11 Savannah

VIDEO: There are no injuries following a fire this morning at a Winona assisted living facility. Crews were called to Brookdale Senior Living around 7:30 Tuesday morning. When they arrived, the fire which started on the back patio, started spreading into the building’s attic. Winona MTU buses and Winona Health provided temporary shelter for the residents.
- PUB DATE: 3/30/2021 6:25:42 PM - SOURCE: WKBT-TV CBS 8 La Crosse

VIDEO: Fire danger remains very high for most of the region. The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources built a new tool so can stay up to date with fire conditions in your community. Burn bans sweep across the La Crosse area as high winds and dry air scorch the landscape. A season of wildfires — most started by people in Wisconsin.
- PUB DATE: 3/30/2021 3:55:28 PM - SOURCE: WKBT-TV CBS 8 La Crosse

VIDEO/PHOTOS: A 48-year-old Milwaukee man was arrested, suspected of starting a grass fire Tuesday morning, March 30 under the 27th Street Viaduct in the Menomonee Valley. Police say he intentionally lit some of the prairie grass along the Hank Aaron State Trail before flames burned through parts of Three Bridges Park.
- PUB DATE: 3/30/2021 1:34:06 PM - SOURCE: WITI-TV Fox 6 Milwaukee

The City of Peshtigo began selling commemorative coins to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Great Peshtigo Fire. The new coin is now on sale. Collectors can buy them for 15-dollars apiece, and come in a black, velvet pouch. Peshtigo mayor, Cathi Malke, tells FOX 11 the idea of coins commemorating what’s known as “America’s Deadliest Forest Fire” isn’t unique.
- PUB DATE: 3/30/2021 7:46:32 AM - SOURCE: WNFL Radio Green Bay

VIDEO: A citizen and two police officers required medical treatment after house fire on Green Bay’s east side. Six people were displaced from the home. Investigators say the home is considered a “total loss.” At about midnight, Green Bay Metro Firefighters were called to a home in the 2700 block of East Shore Drive.
- PUB DATE: 3/30/2021 3:29:10 AM - SOURCE: WBAY-TV ABC 2 Green Bay

Superior firefighters got some real-world, high-risk training Monday to help rescue one of their own if they were to ever go down during a fire. Fake smoke was pumped into a 5,000-square-foot storage facility behind the new fire station on Tower Avenue. The drill included a two-person team searching through zero visibility for a fellow firefighter in distress with a depleting air pack.
- PUB DATE: 3/30/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KQDS-TV Fox 21 Duluth

VIDEO: Dallas Fire-Rescue responded to a large apartment fire at the Forest Cove Apartments, in the 9600 block of Forest Lane in Northeast Dallas Monday evening, March 29. Flames were shooting through the roof. The call came in around 5:30 p.m. as flames could be seen inside multiple apartment units.
- PUB DATE: 3/30/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KTVT-TV CBS 11 Forth Worth

VIDEO: The driver of an SUV was critically injured and three firefighters have been hospitalized after a firetruck was involved in a head-on crash Monday. Florida Highway Patrol troopers said the crash between a Volusia County firetruck and a Chevy Tahoe happened on Ocean Shore Boulevard in Volusia County at 12:10 p.
- PUB DATE: 3/30/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WESH-TV NBC 2 Orlando

VIDEO: Imagine going to the grocery store, parking your car, getting your shopping done, checking out, loading your groceries and you’re about to drive away and then BAM… there’s a swarm of bees in your backseat. That’s what happened to a Las Cruces man this weekend. According to a post on the Las Cruces Fire Department’s Facebook page, firefighters were called out to a local Albertson’s grocery store after the man found a swarm of bees had taken up temporary residence in his backseat.
- PUB DATE: 3/30/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KOAT-TV ABC 7 Albuquerque

In a year when so many of us have struggled with feeling isolated in our homes or apartments, living alone in a 14-by-14-foot cabin perched thousands of feet above the wilderness might not sound enticing. For more than a century, though, across the United States, a few intrepid Americans have sought out those remote towers as not just a job, but a lifestyle.
- PUB DATE: 3/30/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Smithsonian Magazine

Pfizer and Moderna's vaccines are "highly effective" at reducing the risk of infection from COVID-19, according to the first large study of how Americans who have received a vaccine have fared in the U.S. outside of a clinical trial. In a Centers for Disease Control study of just under 4,000 heath care workers, police, firefighters and other essential workers who received one of the two mRNA vaccines between Dec.
- PUB DATE: 3/30/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: People

There are only two Hmong firefighters in Wisconsin. One of them lives right here in La Crosse. “Everybody wants to live the American dream,” Batallion Chief Bee Xiong said. “I think that’s what my family and I are doing right now.” Xiong built 19 years and counting with the La Crosse Fire Department.
- PUB DATE: 3/29/2021 5:14:43 PM - SOURCE: WKBT-TV CBS 8 La Crosse

The Suamico Fire Department cut the ribbon on its new fire station on Sunday. The ceremony was private, for firefighters, families, and village staff. The new building replaces the old building right down Riverside Drive, which is about 60 years old. The new station has several upgrades, such as a decontamination hallway for firefighters to use to clean themselves after responding to fires.
- PUB DATE: 3/29/2021 1:57:49 AM - SOURCE: WNFL SPORTS RADIO

Authorities are investigating the bizarre circumstances surrounding a car fire which sparked a large blaze at a gas station in Baldwin Park early Monday morning. The fire occurred at about 12:50 a.m. at a Mobile gas station in the 12600 block of East Ramona Boulevard near the 605 Freeway. Security video provided to CBSLA showed a car pull up to a pump.
- PUB DATE: 3/29/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KCBS-TV CBS 2 Los Angeles

Twenty-three years ago, a firefighter rushed into a burning home in Poughkeepsie with two young brothers inside. One of them died in the fire but the 3-year-old brother was rescued, and he reunited with the man who saved him over the weekend for the first time. William Porter is now retired and that little boy, Jacob Tsukroff, is now 26 years old.
- PUB DATE: 3/29/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WNBC-TV NBC 4 New York

It has been a challenging year for all of us, but it has been especially hard for first responders and frontline workers who were struggling even before the COVID-19 pandemic. Now these heroes on the front lines of community service are finding help through a new equine therapy program in Tucson healing with horses.
- PUB DATE: 3/29/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KVOA-TV NBC 4 Tucson