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Massive Fire Displaces 90 Families in NYC Building, Injures 21 People
At least 21 people are hurt as hundreds of firefighters continue to battle an 8-alarm fire in Queens that erupted at an apartment building shortly after 1 p.m. Tuesday, the Fire Department of New York City said.
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Massive Blaze at NY Nursing Home Leaves 1 Resident Dead, 1 Firefighter Missing
A fire broke out early Tuesday morning at a Rockland County, N.Y. nursing home, killing one resident and leaving a firefighter missing and over one hundred other residents displaced.
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Garland ISD High School Awarded $10K Grant for Invention Designed to Keep Firefighters Safe
Students at a Garland ISD high school have come up with an invention that is now getting national attention. Students at the Gilbreath-Reed Career and Technical Center designed a system to sanitize firefighters’ boots to prevent the spread of communicable diseases.
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Fire Reignites in Frisco Apartment Day After a Man is Hospitalized, 2 Firefighters Hurt
A Frisco resident was rescued by firefighters who responded to an overnight apartment fire on Wednesday.
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WATCH: Fireman Saves Dog From Burning Building
Watch the moment a fireman in Lititz, Pa., saved a dog from a burning barn on Saturday night.
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Floating Fire Station Arrives in San Francisco
The two-story facility sits on a massive steel float and will begin operating in the spring of 2021.
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Southwest Airlines Provides Free Charter Flights for Texas Firefighters Helping to Battle Wildfires in California
Southwest Airlines is providing two separate roundtrip charter flights to fly the Texas firefighters to and from California as they help to battle the wildfires.
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Firefighters From Mexico Arrive in California to Help Battle Wildfires
At least 100 firefighters from across Mexico arrived in California on Wednesday to assist in fighting the forest fires.
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WATCH: Team of 5 Firefighters in Brazil Tasked With Covering 32,000 Square Miles
As fires break out in northern Brazil, a team of just five firefighters is being asked to cover more than 32,000 square miles of terrain.
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North Texas Firefighters Head to West Coast to Help Fight Fires
Tens of thousands of firefighters are working around the clock to try and contain fires in California, but they simply need more help. NBC 5’s Lili Zheng reports the Fort Worth Fire Department is preparing to send eight firefighters and two trucks while crews from Dallas and Flower Mound are already headed west.
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Federal Firefighter Units Juggle COVID-19 Infection on Fire Lines
Federal firefighter units tasked with putting out some of the nation’s biggest wildfires are grappling with the reality of a fire season coinciding with a pandemic, NBC News reports. As historic wildfires have spread through much of the West this summer, firefighters organized within the Department of the Interior and the Department of Agriculture’s U.S. Forest Service are testing positive...
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Kerith the Golden Retriever Is Offering Comfort to California Firefighters
Meet Kerith — a certified crisis response therapy dog offering comfort and support to firefighters in California.
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California ‘Dream House,' Decades in the Making, Is in Ashes
Hank Hanson and his wife narrowly escaped a raging wildfire in California
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California Wildfires Some of Largest in State History
More than 12,000 firefighters aided by helicopters and air tankers on Friday battled wildfires throughout California as reinforcements began to arrive
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Rescuers Search for Survivors of Deadly Gas Explosion in Baltimore Neighborhood
A gas explosion in a Baltimore neighborhood killed a woman, left others seriously hurt and flattened three homes, firefighters said.
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Firefighter In Hospital For Over a Month Released
A firefighter in the hospital for over a month was released Thursday afternoon.
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Firefighter In Hospital For Over a Month Released Thursday
A firefighter in the hospital for over a month is to be released Thursday. Two weeks ago, some of the department got together to help Hammons wife deliver him his favorite meal, a Whataburger breakfast.
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Firefighters Make Window Visit to Colleague in Hospital
A Frisco firefighter’s colleagues found a unique way to visit him face-to-face when they couldn’t deliver his favorite Whataburger meal to the hospital.
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Coronavirus Forces New Approaches to Fight Wildfires
They are two disasters that require opposite responses: To save lives and reduce the spread of COVID-19, people are being told to remain isolated. But in a wildfire, thousands of firefighters must work in close quarters for weeks at a time. Wildfires have already broken out in Texas and Florida, and agencies are scrambling to finish plans for a new…
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Australia Works to Recover Bodies of 3 US Firefighters From Plane Crash
The three American firefighters who were killed when the aerial water tanker they were in crashed while battling wildfires in Australia have been identified by their employer