As an Anchorage Hearth Division paramedic for the final eight years, Michael Riley routinely helped folks in disaster. He knew the way to deal with bodily wounds. He may acknowledge and reply to a coronary heart assault or sluggish bleeding from a gunshot wound. However when known as to help folks in psychological misery, Riley puzzled whether or not he was actually serving to. His coaching taught him merely to deliver them to an emergency room. And if somebody threatened hurt or self-harm, protocol meant restraining the affected person, one thing he thought could have brought about better trauma and exacerbated signs. The system burdened restricted sources at Anchorage hospitals, and didn't essentially enhance outcomes for sufferers, Riley stated. "For me it was a frustration on these calls as a result of I knew that wasn't the fitting factor for each scenario," he stated.  

A person died in a fire that burned a building in Manchester, New Hampshire, Saturday while several more people were rescued, officials said. A firefighter was burned and had to be flown to Boston for treatment, Manchester Fire Chief Andy Parent said. Another person was also taken by helicopter to a Boston hospital for medical treatment. The heavy fire, raging on three floors of an apartment building on Dutton Street, was reported about 6:10 p.m., Parent said. Five people were rescued by a ladder on the third floor of the building -- there were multiple people hanging out of windows on that floor -- and another person was rescued from a second-floor porch. Among those saved was a baby. Video shows a firefighter clutching the baby tightly, descending down a ladder to safety.  

Charlotte-Mecklenburg is hosting its second annual diversity, equity and inclusion conference, and the opening speaker is no stranger to breaking barriers. Synthia Kearney never remembers seeing a female firefighter when she was growing up, but today she is the first female battalion chief for the Gastonia Fire Department. Kearney has had a remarkable journey to where she is today. After graduating from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, she was a special agent with the United States Secret Service for four years before transferring to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. "After my second daughter was born I became a stay at home mom for three years," she said. "When I financially had to go back to work I decided to do what I had always wanted to do and at 35 years old, I applied and passed the physical agility test and got hired as a Gastonia Firefighter."  

VIDEO: It started like any other November day at the Heaven Hill Distillery in Bardstown until disaster struck in 1996 and a wooden warehouse went up in flames. WHAS11's Sky11 chopper raced to the scene as smoke billowed above. Water did little in the fight against burning bourbon and within minutes, the first warehouse was a total loss. First responders put their focus on other buildings, but the flames were too strong, and the weather conditions were worsening. WHAS11 reporter George Sells was at the scene, frantically calling Melissa Swan in the newsroom. "Just have to stand back and watch it burn. At this point, there's absolutely nothing they can do as this rain comes in and these heavy winds blowing. They're gusting over 40 miles an hour now," he described.  

Mental health continues to be a growing concern among first responders. Molly Doyle never knows when that call is going to come. None of them do. It's the nature of being a firefighter. "My job is to drive the engine to whatever call that is," said Doyle, who is a firefighter with the Unified Fire Authority. Although they are called firefighters, most of the calls that come to the UFA are now medical calls. Crews are trained to fight fires as well as offer emergency medical service. "People call us on their worst day," said Doyle. Because of all those calls, though, Doyle has also been getting more calls lately from her colleagues. That's because she is on UFA's peer support team. "I think asking for help is really difficult for a lot of us," she said. "There's a concern or a stigma that it shows we can't solve all the problems, and we're the type of people who got into this to help others and solve problems."  

The crowd deaths at a Houston music festival added even more names to the long list of people who have been crushed at a major event. Tragedies like the one Friday night at the Astroworld Music Festival have been happening for a long time. In 1979, 11 people died in a scramble to enter a Cincinnati, Ohio, concert by The Who. At the Hillsborough soccer stadium in England, a human crush in 1989 led to nearly 100 deaths. In 2015, a collision of two crowds at the hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia caused more than 2,400 deaths, based on an Associated Press count of media reports and officials' comments. Now that more people are heading out of their homes and back into crowds after many months of being cooped up because of the pandemic, the risks are rising again.