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| 18-wheeler strikes Teague Volunteer Fire Department truck at interstate accident scene A Teague Volunteer Fire Department truck was damaged when an 18-wheeler struck it at the scene of a traffic accident on Interstate 45. "It was a scary situation," the Teague VFD said in a Facebook post. Firefighters from Teague and Dew responded to the accident Tuesday morning. The Teague VFD's trucks were positioned to block oncoming traffic while tow truck operators removed damaged vehicles from the scene. "No one was injured, but this stresses the importance of the things you should do when approaching an emergency scene," Teague firefighters said in the Facebook post. KWTX-TV CBS 10 WACO Man Dead After Car Crashes into Lake in South Dallas Park: Police A man is dead after a car crashed into a lake in South Dallas on Tuesday, officials say. According to Dallas Fire Rescue, units responded to a 911 call regarding a vehicle that had gone into the water at William Blair Jr. Park, located at 3000 Rochester Street, at approximately 9:18 p.m. Officials said when firefighters and police officers arrived, they found a vehicle with two occupants, a male and a female. According to police, the 32-year-old female was driving the vehicle at the time of the crash, and the 37-year-old male, identified as Andre Chandler, was in the passenger seat. Police said the woman drove through a wooden pole and wire fence and entered the levy area before turning left and driving through two more fences to get back into the park. The woman continued driving across a grass area towards the lake, and she eventually drove into the lake where the vehicle submerged. KXAS-TV NBC 5 FORT WORTH Laredo Fire Department called after elderly couple suffers bee attack An elderly couple are fighting for their lives after suffering a bee attack. It happened at about seven this evening when the Laredo Fire Department got a call to the 2600 block of Price Street for bee stings. When they arrived they saw an 89-year-old man and 84-year-old woman on the ground being stung by bees. Firefighters used foam to stop the attack. The couple was taken to the Laredo Medical Center in serious condition. They were reportedly stung at least 100 times each. KGNS-TV 8 LAREDO Klein Volunteer Fire Department adding living quarters to Station 6 The Klein Volunteer Fire Department has been renovating its stations, with Station 6 the latest to be renovated with the addition of living quarters. Station 6, located at 18822 N. Eldridge Parkway, is being renovated as the department prepares to staff all their stations, Klein Fire Chief Mike Gosselin said. "That station was built originally just for volunteers to respond from home," Gosselin said. "Right now, it's just got a trailer. There's a trailer behind it with beds in it which is not really conducive." As the station exists now, Gosselin said they would have to come out of the trailer to go into the fire station, as opposed to sleeping in the station itself. He said this would be modernizing the station, adding about 11,000 square feet of living quarters. ULTIMATE SPRING City of Houston settles $275K sex discrimination, retaliation lawsuit filed by female HFD employees The city of Houston has settled a 2009 lawsuit filed by female employees of the Houston Fire Department over allegations of sex discrimination and retaliation for $275,000. The Houston City Council approved the financial settlement for the two former female firefighters who claimed they had faced discrimination based on their gender. Jane Draycott and Paula Keyes claimed they were subjected to intolerable working conditions at the Houston Fire Department's Station 54. The federal lawsuit accused the Fire Department of not take meaningful steps to stop the discrimination. Draycott's settlement was approved Wednesday, where she will receive $275,000. Keyes reached a settlement with the city in April for $67,500. KPRC-TV NBC 2 HOUSTON Weatherford Fire Department donates truck to high school CTE program The Weatherford Fire Department is donating a retired truck, Engine 2, to the Weatherford High School Career and Technical Education program. "It is my pleasure to propose the donation of a retired fire truck from the fire department to Weatherford High School Career and Technical Education program as part of our strong community initiative," Weatherford Fire Chief Jonathan Peacock said. "The Weatherford High School Career and Technical Education program provides unique opportunities to prepare students for college, advance certifications programs, the military or employment. The many career pathways empower students to immerse themselves in their fields of interest through hands-on learning, field-based experiences and internships. The donation of this truck will provide the fire science portion of this program with an outstanding training tool of the students to use as they carry out realistic fire ground activities." WEATHERFORD DEMOCRAT PREVIOUS STATE NEWS |
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| New law will give South Carolina firefighters battling cancer some financial support On Wednesday morning, Tracy Williams, the assistant fire chief for the Westview-Fairforest Fire Department in Spartanburg County, joined other firefighters from across the state at the South Carolina State Fire Academy for a ceremonial bill signing for a law that will support firefighters in the state diagnosed with cancer. "There's a lot of things that go through your mind when you're diagnosed with cancer," Wiliams said. He knows about this firsthand. He was diagnosed with cancer in 2009. Eleven years later, he stood next to Governor Henry McMaster as he signed the Firefighter Cancer Healthcare Benefit Plan. Williams said Wednesday is a special day. "This is one more indication of the respect and understanding that our people of South Carolina have expressed through our elected representatives. Understanding the importance and critical, vital role that you play," McMaster told a group of firefighters. WIS-TV NBC/CW 10 COLUMBIA Art on call: DC's historic police and fire call boxes transformed VIDEO: Before the age of two-way radios, police and fire call boxes could be found on numerous corners across the District of Columbia. The first installations of these boxes began as early as the 1860s. Firefighter call boxes were connected to a central call station and emergency responders would receive a telegraph of which box to dispatch to. District police installed their own set of call boxes in the 1880s. Officers would patrol neighborhoods and use the call boxes to check in with local precincts for any emergencies. With the inventions of radio communication and the 9-1-1 system, many of these call boxes became obsolete in the early 1970s. Most of the electronic components were fully removed by 1995. The call boxes remained throughout the city, too heavy to remove as they rusted and deteriorated. WUSA-TV CBS 9 WASHINGTON, D.C. San Diego paying out $3.4 million to 700 firefighters for underpaid overtime San Diego agreed this week to pay $3.4 million to more than 700 city firefighters to compensate them for underpaid overtime they should have received several years ago. The payout comes six months after the city reached a similar legal settlement with more than 2,300 other city workers for the same kind of underpaid overtime. The cases were handled separately because overtime calculations differ for firefighters, who work 24-hour shifts that include sleeping overnight in firehouses. The City Council Tuesday unanimously approved the new firefighter settlement, which covers three-quarters of the city's 943 firefighters. The payouts aren't expected to have a significant impact on the budget crisis San Diego is facing during the pandemic. The city expected to owe large payouts in the underpaid overtime cases, so money was set aside before the budget crisis. THE SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE - METERED SITE How Much Are Colleges Contributing to Rise in COVID-19 Cases? Here's What the Data Shows Coronavirus cases have been rising in Illinois and many of its surrounding states this fall as health experts brace for a second wave during flu season, and while testing numbers could play a large role in the increased numbers, there's another factor that may be contributing to the spike: the return to school at colleges and universities in the Midwest. NBC 5 Investigates and Telemundo Investiga have been tracking coronavirus cases that have emerged on college campuses across the country since students returned for their fall semesters and quarters. We're now tracking more than 600 colleges, universities, and HBCUs across the country – with a specific focus on four-year colleges most attended by students from Illinois. As of Wednesday morning, data showed more than 157,000 [157,055] new cases of coronavirus, contracted mainly by students, but also by faculty and university staff, just since the fall sessions began at these universities. WMAQ-TV NBC 5 CHICAGO Four Virginia firefighters honored for 50 years of service Being a firefighter isn't what they do, it's who they are. "It is just something once you start doing it you continue and continue and it builds within you," said Wayne Cosner. "Either you are going to get in and be in here a couple of years and, BOOM, you are gone, or it grabs hold of you and you become loyal to the system and it becomes a way of life for you." Sitting around a table in the bay of Huguenot Volunteer Fire Department last week were four men for whom being a firefighter grabbed hold. Cosner was there along with Francis "Chuck" Urbine, Sam Llewellyn, and Floyd Greene. All four of them have volunteered in Powhatan's fire service in various capacities for the past 50 years. Each man had a different reason for getting involved, but all of them agreed on what kept them in – being a Powhatan firefighter became part of their identities. RICHMOND TIMES-DISPATCH PREVIOUS NATIONAL NEWS |
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