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| 1 teen dead, another charged with DUI, manslaughter following crash in Anchorage One teenager is dead and another is being charged with DUI and manslaughter after a crash early Monday morning in Anchorage's Rabbit Creek neighborhood. According to Sgt. David Noll with the Anchorage Police Department, all three occupants of the car were juveniles. Police said it happened at about 2:40 a.m. along a hillside residential road. Officers arrived at Bluebell Drive shortly after receiving a 911 call from the driver, who said a passenger was pinned under the vehicle, according to APD. When officers arrived, they found a Ford F350 pickup truck upside down with a teenage boy pinned underneath it. Medics with the Anchorage Fire Department responded to the scene and declared him dead. Noll says the driver is charged with DUI and manslaughter. According to Noll, the driver veered off the road and crashed into a curve. KTVF-TV NBC 11 FAIRBANKS PREVIOUS STATE NEWS |
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| VIDEOS: Officials suspect squatters caused fire that tore through homes in New Jersey, displacing dozens A massive 3-alarm fire tore through a row of homes in Irvington, New Jersey, on Tuesday, displacing dozens of residents. Firefighters responded to 71 Montgomery Ave. just before 5 p.m. for reports of a fire in the vacant residential building, according to Newark officials. The fire extended from 71 Montgomery Ave. to 65, 67, 73 and 75 Montgomery. The flames and smoke bleeding through the rooftops on Montgomery Avenue spread to 5 houses altogether. Thick black smoke could be seen from 20 miles away, according to NewsCopter7. Multiple trees around the house also caught on fire at one point, and a car in the driveway was also ablaze. Firefighters worked to keep the fire from spreading to more homes, and some had to be evacuated. WABC-TV ABC 7 NEW YORK North Carolina firefighters continue service despite station damage, losses; repairs underway VIDEO/PHOTOS: The Clyde Fire Department performed rescues and evacuations during Hurricane Helene, but flood waters rose to historic levels. Clyde has experienced flooding from Ivan, Frances and Fred. But, it took Helene to reach the Clyde Fire Department and cause damage. "We had five feet of water in our station. As long as we've ever seen floods, it has never come in our station like it did," said Chief Wentfard Henson. He says the water just kept coming in. "The whole lower floor. It destroyed the whole bottom section. It all had to be torn out. Driers, vending machines. We lost about 10 sets of gear that washed down the river," Henson said. One set of turn-out gear, he says, costs $4,500. He says insurance will help recoup the cost. Henson also said water damaged two fire trucks, but one has been repaired and is back in service. WLOS-TV ABC/MYNETWORK TV 13 ASHEVILLE Fire district in Ohio invests more than $400,000 in new heart monitors VIDEO: West Licking Fire District invested more than $400,000 in new heart monitors. It is the only fire department in the state, and one of few in the country, to have this technology. District leaders say it will help save more lives. The new Lifepak 35 made by Stryker has a more durable touchscreen that is waterproof, and it takes 15 different pictures of the heart at a time instead of 12, like the old machines. The cost of the device is $55,000 to $60,000 per unit. "We have a district that is willing to see the need for this and say, 'Hey, we want the best equipment we can get for our medics to put on the trucks, so that our citizens, our patients can have the best, most updated technology,'" said West Licking Fire District Lt. Andrew Jones. WBNS-TV CBS 10 COLUMBUS Column: Do air pollution and extreme temperatures increase 911 emergency calls? Researchers at the University of Arizona Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health will use air quality sensors, temperature measurements and a national database of 911 emergency medical services calls to evaluate the links between environmental exposures, such as air pollution and temperature, and EMS transports for health emergencies. Emergency medical services represent a critical facet of the public health infrastructure that could be increasingly stressed by climate change, but the nationwide burden on EMS systems associated with environmental exposures remains unknown. "Our climate is becoming hotter and more unpredictable, and that leads to elevated levels of air pollution and extreme temperatures that have dangerous health effects," said lead researcher Chris Lim, PhD, an assistant professor at the Zuckerman College of Public Health. THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA HEALTH SCIENCES Fires have not been kind to historical landmarks in Washington's port city of Tacoma PHOTOS: Tacoma has a roster of historic buildings that serve as reminders of its beginnings and create a sense of place and heritage. However, many buildings from the City of Destiny's beginnings are just footnotes after they fell over time. Some buildings among them are still the focus of conversations long after disappearing from the landscape. And oddly enough, many of the top landmark buildings in Tacoma lost to history went down in flames. Chief among the most-talked-about, gone-but-not-forgotten building that no longer exists is the once-grand Tacoma Hotel, which once hosted the top, well-to-do tourists to the city after it opened for business in 1884 before it burned to the ground in 1935. Maybe it is remembered because of its grandeur or the devastating fire that sealed its fate, but few discussions about local landmarks, past and present, lack stories and antidotes about the lost gem. SOUTH SOUND TALK PREVIOUS NATIONAL NEWS |
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