Anchorage municipal officials say at least 16 roofs have buckled in the city this winter under heavy snow and ice, and they're wary of additional collapses after another storm dropped more snow this weekend. The number of failed roofs is far more than the five collapses that have made headlines, including one at a South Anchorage gym that caused a woman's death. The new, expanded list adds 11 more, including partial failures at large warehouses and collapses at smaller structures such as carports that haven't received much attention. That updated statistic likely makes this winter the most significant for roof damage since at least the winter of 2011-12, said Ross Noffsinger, acting building official for the municipality. City officials said Monday they haven't yet estimated the total damages from this year's collapses. "This is probably the biggest grouping of failures we've had (since then)," said Noffsinger, referring to the snowiest Anchorage winter on record when 134.5 inches fell.  

On April 15, 2013, Dzhokar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev walked to a crowded area near the finish line of the Boston Marathon with backpacks containing homemade pressure-cooker shrapnel bombs filled with BBs and nails. The two brothers separated, each finding a spot packed with spectators to place their bombs. Dzhokar Tsarnaev picked the sidewalk near the crowded outdoor patio of a restaurant, just behind several children watching the race. At about 2:49 that afternoon, more than five hours after the first people left from Hopkinton's starting line and with thousands of runners still on the course, the two bombs detonated. The blasts killed 8-year-old Martin Richard, 23-year-old Boston University student Lingzi Lu and 29-year-old restaurant manager Krystle Campbell. The terrorist attack consigned several others "to a lifetime of unimaginable suffering," the Justice Department noted in a 2021 brief.  

VIDEO: The EF3 tornado in Whiteland didn't just damage homes and businesses. It also made a direct hit on public safety, tearing through the community's fire station, causing serious damage. "It picked up all kinds of debris. It ripped the roof off the front side," said Whiteland Fire Chief Eric Funkhouser. "Really peeled it off." Just five minutes before it hit and caused a portion of the station to collapse, fire crews inside the exact area that collapsed got sent on a call that may have saved their lives. Their bunk rooms took the brunt of the storm. "They had actually gone to bed that night and were in that room," Funkhouser said. "This is where all the firefighter beds are. Some of the bed frames have been damaged. All of the ceiling collapsed down on top of them. The roof collapsed down. The trusses, everything, fell into that room."  

VIDEO: Louisville Metro Police Officer Nickolas Wilt had been with the department less than two weeks before a mass shooter opened fire at a downtown bank Monday morning. He "ran towards the fire" to "save lives", and was shot in the head in the process, police said. Five victims were killed and several others -- including Wilt -- were injured in the shooting at Old National Bank. UofL Health said two other officers were injured. The shooter, identified by police as 25-year-old Connor Sturgeon, was killed in a shootout with police. As of Monday afternoon, Wilt was listed in critical condition after undergoing surgery for a gunshot wound to the head. Wilt worked for the LaGrange Fire Department for seven years before becoming a police officer, we have learned.  

VIDEO: A firefighter's shift is unpredictable. After calls, they can physically clean off debris. But the things they see can often leave a mental stain. According to Dallas Fire-Rescue, six Dallas firefighters have attempted suicide since 2018. Four of them died. In their honor, the department and union are pushing for improved mental health resources. "We don't know what's going on inside people's heads," said Jim McDade, President of the Dallas Fire Fighters Association. "One of the members of the department that committed suicide was my best friend." He remembers Nov. 13, 2021, when Capt. Kenny Crutcher took his own life. McDade talked to him that day, and everything seemed normal. "With Kenny -- with a lot of these guys -- we didn't see it coming," McDade said.