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| 2 people rescued from 4th floor in Chicago apartment building fire, cause under investigation State investigators are looking into the cause of an early-morning fire Thursday that required two people to be rescued by firefighters from the fourth floor of an apartment building in the city's South Shore neighborhood. Chicago Fire Department officials said around 5:45 a.m. that the fire was extinguished in the building, located in the 7800 block of South Shore Drive, and that nobody had been transported to the hospital. Fire officials say they rescued two people on the fourth floor of the multi-unit building, one of them refusing medical treatment. The state fire marshal and a state arson detection K9 were on the scene Thursday morning. Neighbors say their biggest concern was the safety of the building's residents. WGN-TV 9 CHICAGO Firefighters rescue man from grain bin in Logan County Multiple Central Illinois fire departments responded to a Logan County village on Wednesday for a grain bin rescue. The Lincoln Rural Fire Protection District was among the agencies that responded to the New Holland Elevator. Officials posted on Facebook that a single person was trapped up to his waist when Lincoln arrived. New Holland Fire, Middletown Fire and the Logan County Paramedic Association responded to the grain elevator as well. At the end of a "significant joint effort," the victim was rescued in a little over an hour with little to no injuries. "As we have seen before, grain bin rescues have the potential to be a very serious type of call, and we are grateful that it had a positive outcome and such a great working relationship with first responders in our county," officials from Lincoln said. WCIA-TV CBS 3 CHAMPAIGN PREVIOUS STATE NEWS |
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| VIDEOS: Looking back at massive 1997 Indiana tire fire As a massive plume of black smoke permeated the sky above Fort Wayne Wednesday, the blaze reminded some of a historic fire that happened in southeast Fort Wayne nearly 27 years ago. On Aug. 30, 1997, a fire broke out at an abandoned tire warehouse on Bowser Avenue in southeast Fort Wayne. The fire happened less than a mile from Wednesday's fire at the intersection of Wayne Trace and New Haven Avenue. The Bowser Avenue blaze started after a suspected arsonist set a building on fire that was housing at least 500,000 tires. John McGauley, the court executive for Allen Superior Court who covered the fire in 1997 as a reporter for The News-Sentinel, remembered the site had been widely recognized as a hazard for years due to the amount of tires being stored and the dilapidated state of the building. WANE-TV CBS 15 FORT WAYNE Kansas top five in nation for arson fires A national report indicates Kansas is one of the leading states for arson incidents. Last year, there were 5,440 arson incident reports made to the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms (ATF). Kansas made up 6% of the nation's arson reports with 307 cases. Kansas had the fifth most cases of incendiary fires in the U.S. According to the U.S. Fire Administration, there were 293,396 fire reports in Kansas in 2023. The Kansas Bureau of Investigation (KBI) keeps track of the number of arson cases in Kansas. The bureau reports a downtrend in cases since 2020. Arson cases have steadily decreased in number from a peak of 574. The highest number of cases in the last decade happened in 2015 when there were 653 cases. According to the Topeka Fire Department, the City of Topeka investigated 44 arson fires in 2023. KSNT-TV NBC 27 TOPEKA 'Extreme makeover' underway to convert RV dealership into new fire station in Nevada VIDEO/PHOTOS: The Henderson Fire Department traded in fire hoses for sledgehammers this week. The department kicked off the "extreme makeover" of a former motorhome dealership into a new fire station for the city. Henderson announced back in the fall that the city purchased the former Camping World property on Boulder Highway near Racetrack Road, intending to convert it into the new Fire Station 81. City officials held a ceremonial wall knockdown on Wednesday to commemorate the start of construction. The 4.4-acre site will have three extra-long bays to house fire engines. The grounds will be able to accommodate 12 firefighters and a battalion chief, plus 10,000 square feet of warehouse space. Henderson said converting the building is more cost-effective than building from the ground up. KSNV-TV NBC 3 LAS VEGAS How the University of Arizona and Tucson Fire Dept. are measuring toxic chemicals in firefighters across the country VIDEO: Tucson Fire Department and the University of Arizona have been partnering for nearly a decade to study just how much a firefighter's job increases their risk for serious health issues, like cancer. Their research has led to nationwide safety changes in the firefighting industry and the recognition of more cancers presumed to be caused on the job. Researchers have previously found that firefighters tend to have about 20% higher levels of toxic PFAS chemicals, or "forever chemicals," in their systems. That's according to Dr. Jeff Burgess, a professor at the UA's Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health. In one of roughly a dozen studies that have started as part of the 30-year Fire Fighter Cancer Cohort Study (FFCCS) that kicked off in 2016, UA researchers are studying those PFAS levels in firefighters, what causes those elevated numbers, and potential ways to reduce PFAS levels. KGUN-TV ABC 9 TUCSON Ford F-150 Driver Rescued By Ohio Fire Department After Getting Stuck 10 Feet In The Air PHOTOS: There are many reasons why you might want to call the fire department. Your house might be on fire, or a petrol tanker may have just overturned. Or, like this one driver of a Ford F-150, you might be stuck 10 feet in the air and in serious need of rescue. This came to our attention thanks to a Facebook post from Station 41 of the Wolfhurst Fire Department in Bridgeport, Ohio. The agency readily admits it doesn't often post about incidents that it responds to, but this one was simply too noteworthy to ignore. It all went down on the evening of August 25. The fire department was called to a vehicular accident, wherein a Ford truck had somehow wound up stuck 10 feet in the air. The driver was inside, unharmed, but unable to get down as the vehicle was incredibly unstable. The job for the fire crew? Steady the truck so the driver could climb to safety. THE AUTOPIAN PREVIOUS NATIONAL NEWS |
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