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| Firefighters battle massive 2-alarm house fire in Windcrest VIDEO: Firefighters are battling a massive house fire early Friday morning. The fire started around 2 a.m. at a duplex on Montgomery Drive near New World Drive. Firefighters arrived to find flames shooting up through the roof of the house, which was nearly fully engulfed. The strong winds made the fire more difficult for firefighters to get it under control. A second alarm was requested after flames got so bad that firefighters were ordered to evacuate the duplex. The occupants on both sides of the duplex made it out safely. No injuries were reported. American Red Cross is assisting the displaced families. The home is believed to be a total loss with damage estimates at $200,000. The cause of the fire is still under investigation. WOAI-TV NBC 4 SAN ANTONIO Firefighter saves dog from truck hours after deadly pileup in Fort Worth on I-35W VIDEO: A Fort Worth firefighter helped rescue a dog Thursday that was trapped in a truck hours after a multi-vehicle pileup left five people dead on Interstate 35W in Fort Worth. Video shows the firefighter grabbing the dog out of the back of a black truck stuck between multiple cars. With the dog remaining calm in his arms, the firefighter places the dog in the back of a Fort Worth Police Department vehicle. Around 75 to 100 vehicles were involved in a massive pileup crash Thursday morning on Interstate 35W in Fort Worth, including several 18-wheelers, officials said. At least five people have been confirmed dead. A Fort Worth police officer took the dog to a local shelter, according to city officials. A family member of the animal's owner reunited with the dog Thursday afternoon, city officials confirmed. The dog was not injured. KIDY-TV FOX 6 SAN ANGELO 2 Residents Uninjured During Everman House Fire Two Everman residents are uninjured after a house fire on Thursday night, officials say. According to the Everman Fire Department, officials responded to a fire at 525 Gristmill Lane at approximately 9:30 p.m. When firefighters arrived, the fire was showing through the roof of a one-story brick home. Fire officials said when command arrived at the scene, he added a second alarm to the fire. The Rendon Fire Department, the Forest Hill Fire Department, and the Fort Worth Fire Department responded to the second alarm. The occupants of the home made it out safely, fire officials said. No injuries were reported. KXAS-TV NBC 5 FORT WORTH Weatherford Fire Department delivers truck donated for high school orientation course The Weatherford Fire Department delivered a retired fire truck to Weatherford High School's Fire Orientation program Wednesday morning. The Fire Orientation course is under the school's Career and Technical Education program and the truck was donated by WFD for students to be able to use in the newly added program. "[The trucks] get about 10 years on the front line and then we try to get a few more years out of them as a reserve unit," WFD Chief Jonathan Peacock said. "Once it's served its life as a reserve unit, then we put it out for auction and sell it, but we'd rather see it go to a program and do good in the community." WEATHERFORD DEMOCRAT 1 dead after carbon monoxide in Lubbock One person has died, another person poisoned after a carbon monoxide exposure at a home in North Lubbock, according to officials with Lubbock Fire Rescue. Lubbock police and fire responded to 3rd and Flint Thursday morning when the couple's daughter found them both unresponsive in the home. Investigators say it was carbon monoxide build up from a gas stove and wall heater being used to heat the home. LFR reports they did not have a carbon monoxide detector. Investigators are currently waiting for the medical examiner to determine the cause of death. KCBD-TV NBC 11 LUBBOCK Amarillo firefighter awarded Rotary award for outstanding community service Amarillo South Rotary reports Amarillo Firefighter Jason Love will receive the 2020 Amarillo Fire Department Firefighter of the Year award. According to Amarillo South Rotary, Love will be recognized at the Amarillo South Rotary Firefighter of the Year Awards on Tuesday, Feb. 16 at 11 a.m., in the Amarillo Country Club Ballroom. The Firefighter of the Year award goes to firefighters who go above and beyond in service to the community, ASR said. KAMR-TV NBC 4 AMARILLO PREVIOUS STATE NEWS |
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| VIDEO: Firefighters battle massive 2-alarm house fire in Texas Firefighters are battling a massive house fire early Friday morning. The fire started around 2 a.m. at a duplex on Montgomery Drive near New World Drive. Firefighters arrived to find flames shooting up through the roof of the house, which was nearly fully engulfed. The strong winds made the fire more difficult for firefighters to get it under control. A second alarm was requested after flames got so bad that firefighters were ordered to evacuate the duplex. The occupants on both sides of the duplex made it out safely. No injuries were reported. American Red Cross is assisting the displaced families. The home is believed to be a total loss with damage estimates at $200,000. The cause of the fire is still under investigation. WOAI-TV NBC 4 SAN ANTONIO In Kansas Town, This Museum Tells The Stories Of The City's Firefighters On Broadway, just south of Lincoln, is another Wichita landmark that is hidden in plain sight: the Kansas Firefighters Museum. The museum is small in size but uses the space wisely. The walls, ceilings — every square inch, it seems — is full of memorabilia. There are photos, plaques, logbooks and, best of all, old fire equipment. The museum has the station's original horse-drawn wagon; a chemical truck that was pulled and pushed by four men; and a 1921 American Lafrance fire engine. David Wilson — "DD" to his friends — is a retired firefighter and recording secretary for the museum. He's passionate about the vocation and its history. "I've been researching Wichita firefighters, and [now] the state," Wilson said. The museum was once Wichita's Fire Station No. 6; it was built in 1909. "At the time, seven firefighters were here and those seven firefighters worked seven days a week," Wilson said. KMUW.ORG Current UFC heavyweight champion Stipe Miocic is a dedicated firefighter and paramedic in Ohio Yes, Stipe Miocic still works as a firefighter when he is not fighting inside the UFC octagon. The current UFC heavyweight champion is a long-running member of the Oakwood and Valley View Fire Departments in his hometown Ohio, where he works as a dedicated firefighter and a paramedic. Over the years, many have cast doubt over his ability to balance the two professions, but Stipe Miocic has proved them all wrong by giving his best to both his careers and not compromising with either. In fact, Miocic has occasionally participated in fights to raise money for the Firefighter's Foundation and other charities associated with the cause. Stipe Miocic has been a firefighter for over a decade now, starting well before he was even a known name in the world of MMA. He now has a net worth of more than $4 million and makes between $750,000 to a million for every fight he contests in, which means he has absolutely no need for a second job. SPORTS SKEEDA 40 years later: Remembering the Las Vegas Hilton Fire February 10, 2021, marked 40 years since the second deadly hotel fire in three months shook Las Vegas to its core. The city was already reeling from the November fire that claimed 87 lives at the old MGM Grand (today Bally's). Then, on February 10, 1981, it was a terrible case of déjà vu. This time it was the Hilton (now the Westgate), which was the largest hotel in the world at that time. "The flames went right through the hallway," one hotel evacuee described to News 3 as firefighters were still mopping up. "It scorched all the halls. It was so fast." "I was in the casino when they closed it down," another woman said after reuniting with her husband. "I went right to the phone to tell him there's a fire in the hotel, to try to get out as fast as he could." It had started as a normal night at the Hilton with a packed house in the showroom featuring dancer Juliet Prowse and singer Andy Williams. KSNV-TV NBC 3 LAS VEGAS New Jersey: A love of helping others led to the loves of their lives Together, they have fought fires, cut back metal to extricate accident victims from cars, taken turns compressing the chest of someone whose heart isn't beating and, since last fall, warmed baby bottles and changed diapers. A shared love of helping their neighbors led Hopewell Volunteer Firefighters Jim and Annie Ferry to fall in love with each other. Jim was first to be smitten with emergency service. In 2003 his grandmother suffered a massive heart attack. Her town's volunteer EMTs responded and revived her. "I was blown away," said Jim. "I thought, how is this possible, and what is this world of emergency medicine that I know nothing about?" The next year, he volunteered in Plainsboro, where he lived at the time. "I got hooked on having the ability to help people in some of the worst times in their lives," he said. He used his the skills he learned to switch careers, becoming a paid Princeton EMT, and later persued more training and became a volunteer firefighter as well. MERCER ME PREVIOUS NATIONAL NEWS |
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| L-O-D-D Tennessee - Terry Watts, Training Lieutenant, Shelby County Fire Department, Memphis, TN L-O-D-D Mississippi - Guandes "Mook" Smith, Captain, Sardis Volunteer Fire Department, Sardis, MS L-O-D-D West Virginia - Brian Ritchie, Lieutenant, Weirton Fire Department, Weirton, WV L-O-D-D New Mexico - Edward Vasquez, Lieutenant, NASA Fire Department, White Sands Test Facility, Las Cruces, NM L-O-D-D Pennsylvania - Edward P. Bookmyer, Chief Engineer, Craley Fire Department, Wrightsville, PA L-O-D-D Oklahoma - Tayler Bradford, Firefighter, Waynoka Volunteer Fire Department, Waynoka, OK L-O-D-D Oklahoma - Lonnie Bolar, Chief, Waynoka Volunteer Fire Department, Waynoka, OK The Daily Dispatch office will be closed Monday, Feb. 15, 2021 - In observance of Presidents' Day Katy Authorities Warn of Home Fire Dangers, Virtual Surveys Offered Frisco Administers 7,800 Vaccine Doses In 4 Days - Vaccine Hub Closed Beginning Feb. 6 Until More Vaccine Allocated AFSA Announces 2021 Beginning Fire Sprinkler System Planning School Schedule FEMA Announces SAFER Application Period - Opens February 8, 8:00 AM ET, Closes March 12, 5:00 PM ET Staffing for Adequate Fire & Emergency Response Grants - Check for Awards Assistance to Firefighters Grant Awards - Check for Awards The Daily Dispatch Is Now On Facebook Find us on Facebook - www.facebook.com/dailydispatch POST ANNOUNCEMENTS MORE ANNOUNCEMENTS |
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| Director of Emergency Services - Austin, TX / Georgetown, DE / Salinas, CA / Ventura, CA / San Diego, CA / Bend, OR / Salem, OR / South Boston, MA / Palm Springs, CA / Bakersfield, CA Firefighter/Paramedic - Lake Havasu City Fire Department - Lake Havasu City, AZ State Fire Academy Director - Massachusetts Firefighting Academy - Stow, MA Fire Chief - Village of Wilmette - Wilmette, IL Resident Firefighter Testing - Douglas County Fire District #2 - East Wenatchee, WA Fire Marshal - City of Bellevue - Filing deadline: Open Until Filled; First Review of Resumes on Feb. 1, 2021 - Bellevue, WA Operations & Policy Analyst 3 – Regional Mobilization Coordinator - Oregon Office of State Fire Marshal - see application for Districts (5 positions) (closes: Feb 12, 2021) Fire Chief - Harris County Emergency Services District No. 48 - Harris County, TX (closes: Feb 14, 2021) Open / Lateral Firefighter & Firefighter/Paramedic - Carson City Fire Department - Carson City, NV (closes: Feb 15, 2021) Fire Cadet - Los Alamos County - Los Alamos, NM (closes: Feb 19, 2021) Deputy Fire Marshal - Riverside County Fire Department - Riverside, CA (closes: Feb 23, 2021) Deputy State Fire Marshal – Technical Services Unit - Oregon Office of State Fire Marshal - Bend, OR (closes: Feb 24, 2021) Deputy Chief - City of Fishers - Fishers, IN (closes: Feb 28, 2021) Firefighter/Paramedic - City of Folsom - Folsom, CA (closes: Mar 01, 2021) Fire Chief - City of Augusta - Augusta, GA (closes: Mar 05, 2021) Firefighter IV/III/II - City of Thornton Fire Stations - Thornton, CO (closes: Mar 19, 2021) POST JOB MORE JOBS |
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