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  | Straight Talk about FirstNet: First Responder-Designed and First Responder-Led Author: Chris Lombard, Assistant Chief of the Seattle Fire Department In emergency response communication interoperability, public safety's handling of the 4.9 GHz spectrum resembles the Wild West, with minimal coordination between states, uncoordinated use within given states, and fractured coordination among disciplines. Unfortunately, some entities aim to maintain this dysfunction for personal gain or to the detriment of others, claiming to represent public safety's interests under the guise of helping them retain what's rightfully theirs. Read on to learn more about the FirstNet Authority, within the U.S. Department of Commerce, and its efforts to facilitate coordination amongst public safety representatives. |
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A bus driver went to the hospital after a vehicle and a People Mover bus collided in Anchorage's Fairview neighborhood on Tuesday, according to city officials. The accident happened just before 11 a.m. at the intersection of East 15th Avenue and Medfra Street, the Anchorage Fire Department said in a statement Tuesday afternoon. Bart Rudolph, a spokesperson for the municipality's Public Transportation Department, said the bus was heading northbound on Medfra at the time, while the other vehicle was westbound on 15th Avenue. According to Rudolph, the bus driver declined to be taken to the hospital by the fire department, but later asked a People Mover supervisor to take him to a hospital. Rudolph did not have information on the extent of injuries to the driver. ANCHORAGE DAILY NEWS - METERED SITE |
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 PHOTOS: A massive 2-alarm fire destroyed a commercial building in a matter of minutes in Downtown San Antonio near the Bexar County Pretrial Services building. The fire started just before 7 a.m. Wednesday at a huge commercial building off Buena Vista Street near South Comal Street. Aerial footage shows the building fully engulfed in flames with the roof and several walls collapsing. Officials said huge building was mostly empty, but one small business, Cool King, was operating in the facility. One worker was inside the building at the time the fire started, but did make it out safely. Crews used several ladder trucks to battle this massive fire that completely engulfed this large building. After about 30 minutes, firefighters were able to get the blaze under control. Several cars that were parked near the building were destroyed as well. WOAI-TV NBC/CW 4 SAN ANTONIO VIDEO: Three Belleville firefighters were taken to the hospital Tuesday morning after their fire truck was involved in a crash and flipped onto its side. It all happened at Route 161 and Carlyle Avenue, right by Belleville East High School. The good news is that nobody was seriously hurt. The bad news is that there is significant damage to both the fire truck and the Toyota 4Runner, which was also involved in the crash. This all took place around 6:00 a.m. The Deputy Chief of the Belleville Fire Department, Curt Lougeay, told FOX 2 that his truck was east on Carlyle with its lights and sirens, heading to a fire at a nearby Burger King. Lougeay says the 4Runner was at the intersection with 161 and Carlyle and somehow the crash happened from there. KTVI-TV FOX 2 ST. LOUIS VIDEO: There's new information about July's deadly cargo ship fire in Port Newark, as the Coast Guard previewed Wednesday's public hearing. Firefighters 45-year-old Augusto Acabou and 49-year-old Wayne Brooks Jr. were killed when a massive fire overtook an Italian cargo ship in Port Newark on July 5, 2023. Five other firefighters were injured. The Coast Guard on Tuesday previewed a hearing to determine what went wrong. "The purpose of the hearing is to meticulously examine the circumstances surrounding the causes of the fire and the subsequent events that led to the deaths of firefighters Acabou and Brooks so that we can help prevent future incidents and make the shipping and port community safer," said Commander Christian J. Barger, lead investigating officer for the Grande Costa D'Avorio fire. WCBS-TV CBS 2 NEW YORK CITY PHOTOS: On Jan. 10, 1962, all the talk was about bitter cold. At 3 p.m., with the temperature only 4 degrees, Carson Crocker was cutting a customer's hair at 702 Chouteau Avenue. Police officer Kenneth Jones tried to stay warm in his patrol car one block away. Major Nesbit worked inside the Ralston Purina feed mill that towered over the neighborhood just south of downtown. The quiet chill was shattered at 3:20 p.m., when a grain-dust explosion ripped through the Ralston mill, at Seventh and Gratiot streets. The blast blew open Crocker's front door, showered airborne debris around Jones' car and threw Nesbit across the room. "I heard this 'whoom' and there was fire everywhere," Nesbit said. "I crawled until I could see and then I cut out of there." ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH - METERED SITE |
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