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On Monday morning, hours after part of a century-old apartment building crumbled onto a downtown street, officials in Davenport, Iowa, said they were not aware of anyone still trapped in the rubble.That afternoon, as cleaved-off brick from the unsteady structure left the insides of units exposed, the city announced that its Fire Department had turned over control of the site and that recovery work had begun.

Over three months after the fire that ripped through a Red Hook warehouse, which stored decades-old New York City Police Department evidence, legal advocates are still seeking answers from the city about how it plans to address the impact it may have on pending criminal and exoneration cases.Just eight barrels of evidence, which are currently "being reviewed and documented," survived the three-alarm blaze, according to the police department but the Legal Aid Society says it still does not know which of its past or ongoing cases have been affected by the fire.

SAN FRANCISCO As a bomb cyclone swept through the Bay Area on Tuesday, an industrial barge broke loose and smashed into the 3rd Street Bridge in San Francisco, authorities said.The collision, which was reported around 4:50 p.m., splintered wooden planks on the span, according to a video and photos shared by the San Francisco Fire Department.

Four people were hospitalized Thursday morning following a gas leak at the Marathon Petroleum refinery in Wilmington, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department.The leak was reported at the refinery on East Pacific Coast Highway at about 6:39 a.m., according to a Fire Department release.One person was rescued by firefighters using a rigid basket or stretcher and lowered by a rope system to the ground.

Eight people and eight dogs were rescued from the San Gabriel River in Azusa after they were swept away by fast-moving waters Monday evening, according to authorities.Firefighters received reports that a ninth person was also in the river, but it's unclear if that information was accurate, Los Angeles County Fire Department spokesperson Ruben Muñoz said.

One of the 13 people taken to local hospitals after an explosion Monday at a metal factory near Oakwood, Ohio, has died, according to Captain Brian DiRocco with the Oakwood Village Fire Department.The explosion was at the I. Schumann & Co. building, a metal alloy factory, DiRocco said.There was a lot of smoke, a lot of fire, and a lot of injured people, DiRocco said at a news conference Tuesday, adding that the interior of the building looks catastrophic and that the damage is extensive.

Two people are dead and three injured after semi-trucks and other vehicles exploded and burned in Medley, Florida, Tuesday morning, police said.Miami-Dade Fire and Rescue units responded to an explosion at an address a fire department map showed as a truck dealer in the suburb of Medley.Upon arriving to the scene, crews found multiple vehicles on fire, said Anthony Nunez, a fire department spokesperson.

The president of the firefighters union in Memphis, Tennessee is defending the actions of EMTs involved in the Tyre Nichols case.In a letter to the Memphis City Council, Thomas Malone, president of the Memphis Fire Fighters Association, said his members were not given adequate information upon dispatch or upon arrival on the scene where Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man, had been repeatedly punched and kicked by police after a traffic stop on January 7. Quite frankly, there was information withheld by those already on the scene which caused our members to handle things differently than they should have, Malone suggested.

Wednesday, June 14, 2023 by Jo Clifton
In a memo dated June 12, Austin Fire Chief Joel Baker gave Mayor Kirk Watson and City Council his proposed road map for reducing overtime expenditures in the department, and it involves a bigger budget and more firefighters.Baker was responding to an audit of the department's overtime expenditures released in April.

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Nearly seven months after the San Jose Fire Department began an investigation into why firefighters allowed a bikini-clad woman in heels to join them for a ride-along near a strip joint, the fire chief said in a memo to the City Council that the crew had allowed the woman to ride inside the firetruck because "she persisted."

Mayor Eric Adams reaffirmed his strong support for embattled Fire Commissioner Laura Kavanagh on Friday before marching side-by-side with her in the annual Saint Patrick's Day Parade, amid tensions between her and her top chiefs that have led to several officials to resign their titles in recent weeks.

Public safety is the key issue that ruined Mayor Lori Lightfoot's chance for reelection.To hear mayoral runoff contenders Brandon Johnson and Paul Vallas tell how they would fix the city's policing problem is to understand just how complex the answers can be.Yet in their focus on violent crime, the candidates so far are overlooking another public safety problem that could readily be fixed: the scourge of fatal fires in some of the city's poorest neighborhoods.

Real Estate Storing and charging such bikes and scooters indoors can create a tinderbox.NEW YORK - Just before midnight on a Friday in January, a fire tore through a three-story house in East Elmhurst, Queens, injuring 10 people inside and killing a 63-year-old man who was trapped on the second floor.

Tuesday, January 24, 2023 by Emma Freer
The Pflugerville Fire Department Board of Commissioners unanimously rejected an initiative petition that sought to reduce the department's local tax revenue."Based upon the advice of (legal) counsel and having duly considered the petition presented, we understand it is not consistent with the law and therefore not something we can accept," Board President Rico Reyes said during a Jan. 17 meeting .

The marquee component of the Page Street Neighborhood Way project was supposed to be the city's first raised intersection, also known as a speed table, planned for Page and Buchanan.In this configuration, pictured below in a rendering, the entire intersection is kept at sidewalk level to force motorists to slow down as they cross.

San Francisco Fire Department Five people were injured early Tuesday morning when flames engulfed a portion of a high-rise in San Francisco's Sunset District near Mount Sutro, officials said.The blaze was caused by a lithium-ion battery that caught fire, the San Francisco Fire Department said.The fire department said it was dispatched to Avalon Sunset Towers just after 1 a.m. for a report of a fire.

San Francisco Fire Department The San Francisco Fire Department rescued a victim from a severe explosion at a Richmond neighborhood home Friday morning.While details are still under investigation, the fire department is looking at a propane appliance as the possible culprit.According to SFPD Capt.Jonathan Baxter, firefighters responded around 9:30 a.m. to find a single-family home with "signs indicative of an explosion."

The National Weather Service wasn't kidding about that wind advisory, as a couple hours into it, winds have topped 60 miles per hour, an estimated 70,000 in the Bay Area are without power, and PG&E and the fire department are playing whack-a-mole with downed trees and lines.We mentioned this morning that the National Weather Service was putting out a wind advisory, one that would start at 1 p.m. today, with winds possibly reaching as strong as 55 miles per hour.

The mortgage industry has its own language, and in order to understand it, homebuyers need to learn different acronyms and jargon when shopping for a home loan.A typical home loan payment or mortgage payment involves a single payment, which is the sum of four different line items: the loan principal, interest, taxes, and insurance - also referred to as PITI.

A fire has broken out at a block of residential flats in south London, as 60 firefighters tackle the blaze.Eight fire engines and around 60 firefighters attended the scene on Whitehorse Road in Croydon at around 5pm on Wednesday afternoon, London Fire Brigade (LFB) said, after receiving over 30 calls about the fire.

Plenty of luxury housing developments are built around glamorous perks: a manicured 18-hole golf course, a private beach club, even an exclusive on-site restaurant crowned with Michelin stars.Tucked in the coastal jungle of Western Mexico comes yet another hyper-luxurious real estate offering, this one banking on a novel perk: a pony named Karen.

Two men are in critical condition after four people were shot in the Englewood neighborhood Tuesday night, Chicago police said.A group of people were on the sidewalk on the 7000 block of South Halsted Street when at 8:35 p.m. someone began shooting in their direction from inside a grey Durango SUV.A 36-year-old man who suffered a gunshot wound to the head was transported to UChicago Medicine by the fire department.

Two people were shot, one fatally, as they sat in a parked car in Garfield Park early Sunday morning, Chicago police said.Around 2:09 a.m., a 35-year-old man and a 30-year-old woman were in a car on the 4100 block of W. Taylor Street when shots were fired, police said.The man, who had a gunshot wound to the head, was transported by the Chicago Fire Department to Mount Sinai Hospital and pronounced dead.

Three children are dead and two adults were critically injured in a fire early Saturday morning in a west Baltimore home, the city's fire department said.Firefighters were called to the home in the 3000 block of Brighton Street and initially rescued three children and two adults who were in critical condition, the Baltimore Fire Department tweeted around 4:30 a.m.

SFFD UPDATE Jan. 25, 6:12 p.m.A person who was rescued from a fire in San Francisco's Potrero Hill died from injuries suffered during the blaze at the apartment complex, the San Francisco Fire Department said Wednesday.UPDATE: CONFIRMED ADDRESS IS 706 MISSOURI ST. https://t.co/39vGLAMScopic.twitter.com/VEstzpQZjB-

The residential high-rise in Kenwood where an extra alarm fire occurred Wednesday morning, killing one person, has a history of code violations and building inspection failures, city records show.It's been cited for fire-related code violations at least 11 times since October 2021, according to Department of Buildings records.

A car crashed through a Chicago Transit Authority bus shelter in North Lawndale Sunday afternoon, leaving three people hospitalized with injuries, police and fire officials said.Two cars crashed at the intersection of South Kedzie Avenue and 16th Street shortly after 4 p.m., the Chicago Fire Department said on Twitter.

The suspect in a shooting at a private Christian school in Nashville on Monday is dead, officials said.The Nashville Fire Department said on Twitter there are "multiple patients" but their conditions were not immediately clear.The shooting occurred at The Covenant School, where students walked to safety holding hands to a nearby church to reunited with their parents.

A stalled train was evacuated after the Chicago Transit Authority released an alert about a temporary suspension of service on the Brown and Purple lines due to a power outage Tuesday afternoon.Maddie Kilgannon, a CTA spokesperson, said there was a reported loss of power near Merchandise Mart around 4:40 p.m. Service was temporarily down on the Brown line between Armitage and the Loop and on the Purple line express service between Howard and the Loop.

One of two people injured in a fire in an apartment building on the North Side has died, officials said.The victim, who was who was taken to Stroger Hospital, was pronounced dead there at 8:25 a.m., according to the Cook County medical examiner's office, which did not give further information.The fire started shortly before 3:45 a.m.

By Lloyd Mitchell Posted on May 14, 2023 Firefighters fought heavy fire and smoke on the second and third floor of a private dwelling at 8416 12 Avenue in Bay Ridge on Sunday, May 14. Sign up for our amNY Sports email newsletter to get insights and game coverage for your favorite teams Fire marshals are investigating the cause of a three-alarm Brooklyn fire on Sunday morning that gutted a residence, but left no people injured.

Laine Goettsch packed her emergency medical bag and drove into downtown San Diego to look for her favorite patient, afraid of what she might find.Sometimes, she saw Abdul Curry cleaning the sidewalks near his tent and dancing to a playlist of Ed Sheeran songs.Other times, she found him hypothermic in a wet sleeping bag and surrounded by people smoking fentanyl.

A tanker crash sparked a massive fire on a Baltimore County interstate Friday morning, state police and local officials said, just weeks after a deadly tanker fire about 50 miles away.Firefighters stood back as a yardslong trail of bright orange and red flames roared from the pavement, fueling thick black smoke that rose into the predawn darkness, an image released by the Baltimore County Fire Department shows.

More than 465,000 customers in Michigan remained without power on Saturday morning after a winter storm that led to at least one death and coated trees and power lines with ice continued to disrupt life in the Upper Midwest.The storm, which brought snow, freezing rain and wind gusts between 30 and 40 miles per hour across the Upper Midwest on Thursday, knocked out power and snarled traffic.

Five people were injured on Friday night after an American Airlines plane struck a shuttle bus at Los Angeles International Airport in California, officials said, in what was the latest in a string of unusual incidents at major airports in the past four weeks.The plane, an Airbus A321, had no passengers and was being towed on a taxiway around 10 p.m. local time when it hit a bus that was transporting passengers between terminals, the Federal Aviation Administration said.

Steel bollards meant to discourage johns from cruising up and down Capp Street are being installed by the city this week, replacing the concrete barriers that have sat on the street for months.Department of Public Works staff were at intersections from 18th to 22nd on Capp this morning, slicing into concrete and installing the two-and-a-half-foot tall yellow steel barriers.

San Francisco Fire Department Media Two people and one cat were rescued from a house fire in San Francisco's Richmond District on Thursday morning, officials said.The two people had moderate injuries, Lt. Jonathan Baxter, a spokesperson for the San Francisco Fire Department, said in a media update posted to Twitter.

Bryan Robinson, author of Chained to the Desk in a Hybrid World.Michael Mauney/NYU Press When work is all consuming, it can exact a high price.This is not news to anyone who has grown up with work-obsessed parents or who loves their job so much that its become part of who they are.It's a familiar topic for Bryan E. Robinson, a psychotherapist in Ashville, N.C.

Despite threats of rain, this weekend brings myriad festivals and events to the D.C. region.Shoppers line the sidewalks at Georgetown's annual French Market, the Petworth PorchFest fills the neighborhood with music after last week's rainout and some of the world's biggest DJs visit the second Project Glow festival at RFK.

A Milford middle school was evacuated Wednesday afternoon after a student sprayed mace near the library.School officials said the evacuation was ordered as a precaution because when the incident occurred, it was not clear what the substance was that had been sprayed.The fire department cleared the building, and all activities at the school, Stacey Middle School, were canceled for the afternoon.

The suspect in a shooting at a private Christian school in Nashville on Monday is dead, officials said.
he Nashville Fire Department said on Twitter there are "multiple patients" but their conditions were not clear.It was not known whether they were staff, teachers or students.The shooting happened at The Covenant School, where students walked to safety holding hands to a nearby church to be reunited with their parents.

Officials in France are concerned that the three-day State visit of Britain's King Charles III could become a target for pension reform protesters.Published: 22 March 2023 12:54 CET Security will be high for the monarch's first official trip abroad following his accession on the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, last September.

Imagine there's a small fire in your kitchen.Your fire alarm goes off, warning everyone nearby about the danger.Someone calls 911.You try to put the fire out yourself maybe you even have a fire extinguisher under the sink.If that doesn't work, you know how to safely evacuate.By the time you get outside, the fire truck is already pulling up.

A sign that reads "shut it down" is pictured at the Northwest Detention Center as people attend the Peoples Tribunal Against the Detention Center event in Tacoma, Washington, on February 26, 2017.JASON REDMOND / AFP / Getty Images This story was originally published by Prism.Earlier this month, over 85 people incarcerated at Northwest Detention Center (NWDC) in Tacoma, Washington, went on a five-day hunger strike to protest worsening living conditions.

President Joe Biden was enthusiastically applauded by a bipartisan gathering of city mayors at the White House this weekend when he said that, on matters of public safety, the answer is not to defund the police.They need more funding, Biden said in the East Room when speaking to a group from the U.S. Conference of Mayors.

Local The two dogs were lucky to be rescued after falling into Bad Luck Pond.Two lucky dogs were rescued from Bad Luck Pond in Douglas Monday after they fell through the ice.The Douglas Fire Department said in a Facebook post that someone called to report that the two dogs had escaped from their enclosure and fallen through the ice on the pond around noon.

Homeless Neighbors in the Park At Quail Creek neighborhood said the fires are constant and growing closer and closer to their homes.Author: Daranesha Herron (KVUE) Published: 10:39 PM CST March 7, 2023 Updated: 5:42 PM CST March 8, 2023 AUSTIN, Texas A North Austin community is pleading for help after multiple fires from an encampment just feet from their homes.

AUSTIN, Texas Crews from the Austin Fire Department, Texas Gas Service and the Austin Police Department were on the scene of a 4-inch natural gas line break in South Austin on Saturday morning.The incident happened around 9 a.m. in the 4400 block of S. Congress Ave., near St. Elmo Road.In an update around 12:10 p.m., the fire department said the gas line had been clamped and all AFD units were clearing the scene.

A gas leak caused an explosion Thursday afternoon at a science building at USC, with one person being evaluated for injuries.The explosion was reported at 4 p.m. at the three-story science building at 923 Bloom Walk, Los Angeles Fire Department officials said.The USC Department of Public Safety said a gas leak had occurred at the Neely Petroleum Building and advised people to stay away from the area.