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| Grandmother, 3 small children killed in Sugar Land house fire; 2 others hurt A grandmother and three small children died in a house fire in Sugar Land early Tuesday morning, a city spokesman confirmed to KHOU 11 News. Around 2 a.m., firefighters were called to the 3200 block of Vista Lake, in the First Colony area, where a mother and her friend were found outside the burning home. Both suffered burn injuries. Inside the home, another woman and three elementary school-age children were found dead. The woman was identified as the children's grandmother. Police believe one of the women found hurt outside the home is the mother of the children who perished. The neighborhood where the fire occurred had been without power for about eight hours. Police had to hold the mother back to keep her from going back inside the home. KHOU-TV CBS 11 HOUSTON 2 Houston Fire Department firefighters reported injured in apartment fire Two firefighters were reported injured after an apartment partially collapsed during a fire Monday afternoon in southwest Houston, according to the Houston Fire Department. It happened on Bellaire near Renwick. Firefighters arrived around 2:30 p.m. to try to put out the fire. HFD Chief Sam Pena reported the firefighters were taken to the hospital with minor injuries after they were trapped under a collapsed roof. One firefighter suffered an ankle injury while another received an injury to the neck. HFD initially called it a four-alarm fire, but it was later scaled back to a two-alarm fire. It's not immediately known what caused the fire, but an investigation is ongoing. Approximately 80 families were reported to be displaced. The fire department was working with the Red Cross to find these families shelter. KTRK-TV ABC 13 HOUSTON 4 Pedernales firefighters taken to hospital after fire truck rolls over PHOTO: The morning a Winter Storm Warning was issued for Austin and Central Texas, a fire truck in Travis County rolled over, injuring four firefighters. Austin-Travis County EMS confirmed to KVUE's Mike Marut that a Pedernales Fire Department truck rolled over at around 8:39 a.m. in the 16000 block of W. State Highway 71 Saturday. Four firefighters had non-life-threatening injuries and were taken to the hospital. They have since been released from the hospital. The ATCEMS told KVUE that this crash demonstrates the importance of wearing your seatbelt. If the firefighters weren't wearing their seatbelts, this crash could have resulted in more serious injuries, ATCEMS said. Crews with ATCEMS have been responding to crashes all over the area Saturday, with ice reported on all types of road surfaces. KVUE-TV ABC 24 AUSTIN VIDEO: Massive Lubbock home destroyed by fire Firefighters battled a massive fire at a home on the south side early Monday morning. Fire crews were called out at around 2:45 a.m. to the 200 block of Lubbock, which is just south of downtown near the I-10 and I-35 interchange. Fire officials say the home was full engulfed in flames when crews arrived. The home appeared to be vacant, but fire officials said someone inside may have lit a fire to warm up in the extreme cold temperatures. No one was hurt in the fire, but home is destroyed and is a total loss. Firefighters worked to save other homes around it from being damaged. KENS-TV CBS 5 SAN ANTONIO San Antonio Fire Department warns of weather dangers after fire truck overturns on icy roadway The San Antonio Fire Department is warning residents to stay home and avoid travel after one of its own fire trucks overturned on an icy roadway early Sunday morning. The department shared an image of the overturned fire truck on Facebook. Fortunately, the fire crew that was involved in the rollover is OK, but fire officials are warning residents of just how serious this winter freeze is. "Last night, because of the ice, this happened. Luckily the crew is OK. The storm is serious. STAY HOME. Our life (and yours) are on the line," the department said in the post. San Antonio Police Chief William McManus held a briefing Sunday morning, also urging residents to stay off the roadways as the winter freeze passes through the region. KSAT-TV ABC 12 SAN ANTONIO Santa Fe fire chief back home after 100-day hospital stay The last time Tommy Anderson made a run with his crew was on Nov. 2, and that was as a patient. On Friday, the Santa Fe Fire and Rescue chief returned home after more than 100 days in the hospital after falling off a roof. Anderson underwent eight surgeries and was even intubated for weeks. The homecoming had all the elements of an overdue celebration, complete with a surprise procession by the all-volunteer fire and EMS crews from Santa Fe, Dickinson, Galveston and Hitchcock. Anderson, a 49-year firefighting veteran, shed tears as the procession passed by his home. For now, he'll recover at home. Members of the John Mitchell Masonic Lodge #1401 built a wheelchair ramp and doors so Anderson can move about better. Anderson said he hopes to be walking soon and return to the firehouse. KTRK-TV ABC 13 HOUSTON PREVIOUS STATE NEWS |
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| VIDEO: Fire Ravages New Jersey Multi-Family Home, Displaces 18 Eight families were displaced by an intense fire that destroyed a Passaic multi-family home Friday night. No injuries were reported. Flames blew through the roof, part of which collapsed less than a half-hour after the four-alarm blaze broke out on the second floor of the wood-frame building at Hope and Highland avenues around 8 p.m. "Thank God everyone is out, safe and accounted for," Mayor Hector Carlos Lora said. Eighteen people in all received temporary food, lodging and clothing thanks to the Red Cross and the city. Most were able to find shelter with family, Lora said. Firefighters had to deal with low pressure, among other challenges, but had the main body of the blaze knocked down within an hour. The fire was declared under control around 10 p.m. SOUTH PASSAIC DAILY VOICE 4 Texas firefighters taken to hospital after fire truck rolls over PHOTO: The morning a Winter Storm Warning was issued for Austin and Central Texas, a fire truck in Travis County rolled over, injuring four firefighters. Austin-Travis County EMS confirmed to KVUE's Mike Marut that a Pedernales Fire Department truck rolled over at around 8:39 a.m. in the 16000 block of W. State Highway 71 Saturday. Four firefighters had non-life-threatening injuries and were taken to the hospital. They have since been released from the hospital. The ATCEMS told KVUE that this crash demonstrates the importance of wearing your seatbelt. If the firefighters weren't wearing their seatbelts, this crash could have resulted in more serious injuries, ATCEMS said. Crews with ATCEMS have been responding to crashes all over the area Saturday, with ice reported on all types of road surfaces. Typically, bridges, overpasses and flyovers are the main concern, but cold temperatures and drizzly weather have created icy conditions on many roadways in Central Texas. KVUE-TV ABC 24 AUSTIN Dashboard tracks COVID-19 in North Carolina firefighters and EMTs In the public safety world, they are known as LODDs -- line of duty deaths. And now the biggest cause of those deaths in public safety jobs isn't from rushing into burning buildings or getting shot, it is from COVID-19. That's why researchers in the Triangle have developed a way to track coronavirus infections in the public safety group most likely to get them -- firefighters and emergency medical technicians. And it's important to remember that while working, many of them live, eat, and sleep dormitory-style. "You take people who have an increased number of exposures to at-risk individuals and members of the public through their occupational sort of goings-on, and then you put them in close proximity indoors to one another for extended periods of time," Robert Furberg told ABC11. Furberg, a medical researcher for the Research Triangle Institute in Durham said if not a recipe for disaster, it's at least a recipe for spreading SARS-CoV-2. WTVD ABC 11 RALEIGH Ohio city rolls out pilot program to deal with mental health crisis-intervention calls A pilot program could leave first responders better equipped with additional training, tools and resources to handle the steady volume of mental health-related calls that come through emergency dispatch. After months of discussions that included behavioral health professionals and the safety forces, City Council put $100,000 into this year's budget for a "hybrid" Crisis Response Pilot Program. The program is expected to begin with the training of two police officers per shift, along with paramedics in the fire department. "We estimated that mental health calls amounted to about 15 percent, or 470, for 2019, averaging a little more than one a day," Chief Administrative Officer Jeri Chaikin told council in a Feb. 8 work session held online. "Some days there might not be any calls. Other days, there might be two -- or three." And that was before the COVID-19 pandemic, as figures for last year were still being compiled on 911 calls -- both emergency and otherwise -- that include disturbances, family or neighbor disputes, trespassing, a suspicious person, substance abuse, addiction or suicide threats. CLEVELAND.COM New System Makes Emergency Response Faster in Florida County Broward County has invested millions in a new emergency response system experts say is helping firefighters and officers to respond to emergencies faster. "You as a resident at home when you call 911, you want the closest available unit to come handle your emergency," said Sunrise Fire Rescue Chief John McNamara. That's already happening over a section of Broward. It's one of many improvements made to the county's emergency system after issues were revealed in the response to the shooting in Parkland three years ago. New communications towers and new radios for every police officer and firefighter went online two months ago. There were also updates made to the 911 system. "This new system grabs that unit, sends them to your house and gets you there much faster than the older system," McNamara explained. WTVJ NBC 6 MIAMI PREVIOUS NATIONAL NEWS |
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