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| We Key the Mic for the Latest Technology: Drones
Author: Key the Mic Staff
Fire officials across the country are quickly realizing the benefits drones can offer emergency responders. Drones come in all shapes and sizes, and can be aircrafts, boats, or wheeled vehicles. Drones are easy to learn and operate, but there are laws to ensure that it’s done safely. If you are curious about how to implement a drone program in your district or department, or what it takes to acquire and use a drone legally, this episode is a great place to start. Engineer Paramedic Kevin Dykes and Engineer A-EMT Nick Robinson from the Depoe Bay Fire Department in Oregon will walk you through their experience starting a drone program, the costs and training involved, and how it has benefitted their department and community. read more |
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| Fire departments sue Bethalto property owner for failing to maintain property prior to fatal fire The fire departments that responded to a Bethalto fire where Capt. Jake Ringering died when a wall collapsed are suing the homeowner for failing to maintain the property or warn the firefighters of the home's unsafe condition. Village of Fosterburg, Godfrey Fire Protection District, Village of Bethalto, as statutory subrogees of Ringering, Brian Buhs, Alexander Ocepek, Luke Warner, Christopher Stratton and John Holtorf, filed a complaint March 5 in the Madison County Circuit Court against Roland Bland Living Trust and Roland Bland, alleging negligence and wrongful death. According to the complaint, Bland owned and maintained a property located at 4064 Culp Lane in Bethalto. The plaintiffs allege that on March 5, 2019, Ringering, Buhs, Ocepek, Warner, Stratton and Holtorf responded to a fire at the defendant's home while in the course of their employment with the Godfrey Fire Protection District, Village of Bethalto and Village of Fosterburg. MADISON/ST. CLAIRE COUNTY RECORD Rockford's Fire Chief is one of four finalists for the chief position in Fort Collins, Colorado Fort Collins, Colorado has narrowed its list of finalists to replace its retiring fire chief down to four candidates and one of the four is Rockford Chief Derek Bergsten. According to the Poudre Fire Authority, Bergsten and the three other candidates took part in final interviews on March 2nd and 3rd. The other candidates are the current fire chiefs in Spokane, Washington and Bozeman, Montana as well as a deputy fire chief from Grand Junction, Colorado. Bergsten has been Rockford's fire chief since 2008 and in January he was named 2020 fire chief of the year by the Illinois Fire Chief's Association. WIFR-TV CBS 23 ROCKFORD Garage fire destroys home in Winnebago A home is destroyed in Winnebago after a fire early Monday morning. Around 5 a.m. multiple fire crews responded to the 8100 block of W. State Road for a garage fire. Firefighters at the scene said the garage fire spread to the home. Officials said one person was able to escape with minor injuries. No other civilian or firefighter injuries have been reported. Win-Bur-Sew Fire Chief Robert Martin, Jr. said around 12 dogs were chained in the backyard. Authorities are working with animal control to find temporary homes for the animals. One dog was taken by ambulance to be treated, another was taken in the fire chief's car. The cause of the fire is yet to be determined. WIFR-TV CBS 23 ROCKFORD Palatine Firefighters Rescue Sick or Injured Worker from the Roof at Fremd High School Police, firefighters, and paramedics from Palatine responded about 7:49 a.m. Monday, March 15, 2021 to a report of a sick or injured person found on the roof at Fremd High School, 1000 South Quentin Road in Palatine. A worker was found collapsed on the roof of the high school on the south side of the school building near the football field. Interior access for removal of the victim was not feasible, and fire command assigned Quint 85's crew to access the roof with their main aerial at the south side of the building. Paramedics treated the patient on the roof, and firefighters and paramedics lowered him in a Stokes basket to the ground while connected to the main aerial. The patient was then transported to Northwest Community Hospital. THE CARDINAL 2 Displaced In Evanston House Fire Two people and one cat were able to escape without injury from a fire that started in their basement in Evanston Monday night. Around 7:29 p.m., Evanston firefighters were called to the 1800 block of Washington Street for several reports of a house fire. With the help of neighboring communities, Evanston firefighters were able to contain and extinguish the fire within 30 minutes of the crews arriving on the scene. The American Red Cross of Greater Chicago was able to provide housing, food and social services for the displaced residents. WBBM-TV CBS 2 CHICAGO PREVIOUS STATE NEWS |
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| Video Captures Deadly Plane Crash At Florida Airport That Hit SUV, Kills Young Boy A young boy in an SUV struck by a small plane that crashed just outside North Perry Airport on Monday afternoon has died in the hospital. According to a Pembroke Pines Fire Department spokesperson, the crash took place in the area of SW 72 Avenue and 12 Street. The FAA said the single-engine Beechcraft Bonanza crashed shortly after takeoff around 3:00 p.m. Monday. CBS4 News obtained Ring video of the crash from Anabel Fernandez, who lives directly across the street. The video shows the car driving down the residential road when the plane drops out of the sky and slams into it. The plane then careens into the airport fence and explodes into a ball of flames. The spilled fuel from the crash burns and stretches across the road. "We heard like a bomb, like a tremendous noise and everything was on fire and it dived into a car," said Anabel Fernandez. "I live right here. I walk with my babies every day. The plane could have got us all. I am in shock." WFOR-TV CBS 4 MIAMI Kansas first responders with PTSD ‘suffered in silence'; Workers' comp doesn't cover it When Kent Vosburg visited a counselor after finding himself in "a bad way" a decade ago, it was the counselor who left the room crying. "The person that's supposed to come help me can't do it," Vosburg said. In his career as a paramedic, Vosburg has witnessed several horrifying scenes. There was the woman who passed out on top of her infant daughter, smothering her for hours. Another time his ambulance arrived to a car fire minutes before a fire truck. Without fire gear, the crew couldn't do anything as the people in the vehicle burned. A man once shot himself in front of Vosburg. "When the general public needs help, they call 911. But when 911 needs help, what do they do?" said Vosburg, training chief at the Junction City Fire Department. THE WICHITA EAGLE Montana's Rural Fire Council hosts 'Frappe With A Firefighter' to recruit volunteers Firefighters have lined up their papers and ordered their coffee for a day's event of chatting with community members. For the Lewis & Clark County Rural Fire Council, this "Frappe With A Firefighter" event helps recruit members during this crucial time. "Memberships are at an all-time low for rural fire, as far as volunteer departments," says Dave Sammons, the Council President. "So we try to do things like this that will promote memberships and people interested in their communities." Along with being the Council President, Sammons is also the East Valley Volunteer Fire Department Chief. He says he is fortunate to have 38 members in his department, but also admits utilizing all members to complete the services in the East Valley region. "It takes all 38 of them to run East Valley, as far as responding to medical calls and fires. There's some departments that are down to five or six members. We always want more, because it takes every one of us to complete the mission," says Sammons. KRTV-TV CBS 3 GREAT FALLS Ohio: How Did Columbus Fire Stations Get Their Nicknames? The Columbus Division of Fire is nearly 200 years old, with 35 stations covering the city. Over the department's long history, some of those stations have garnered interesting nicknames. This led one WOSU reader to ask Curious Cbus "How did the Columbus fire stations such as the ‘River Rats' each get their unique names?" As it happens, a fire station getting a nickname or adopting a mascot is a fairly common practice across the country, and Columbus is no exception. Nearly every station in the Columbus Division of Fire has a nickname or mascot of one kind or another, including a pig, goose, bull, turtle, dragon and Tasmanian devil. Columbus Fire Station 10 is in the heart of Franklinton, a neighborhood with its own nickname: The Bottoms. That name comes from the fact that Franklinton was prone to flooding from the Scioto River before the construction of a protective flood wall. WOSU PUBLIC MEDIA How COVID-19 Has Changed Movement in California, the Nation's Most Populous State For all of our grousing about COVID fatigue, a few novel trends are clear one year into the pandemic. In the early weeks of 2021, Californians are staying home way more than we did in our pre-pandemic life. Even so, we're heading out to shop, dine and work far more now than in March 2020, when state officials issued the first sweeping stay-at-home order, or the dark period that followed the winter holidays, when we hunkered down as COVID-19 caseloads exploded. And to the extent we are venturing out, we are using cars rather than resuming pre-COVID commute patterns on buses and trains, a trend with troubling implications for transit services and the environment should it become long-standing. The findings come from a Google compilation of vast troves of cellphone location tracking data, part of an ongoing effort the tech giant says it initiated to help leaders around the globe gauge the impact of COVID-related closures and travel restrictions. US NEWS PREVIOUS NATIONAL NEWS |
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