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Man dies following house fire in Odessa Fire Marshals are investigating a fire that left one person dead overnight in Odessa. According to the City of Odessa, Odessa Fire Rescue and the Odessa Fire Marshals Division were called to a house fire in the 1500 block of east 11th Street at 11:50 p.m. Thursday. A person who was inside the house at the time was taken to the hospital with life-threatening injuries. They died shortly after arriving at the hospital. Authorities say the victim was a 58-year-old man. His name has not been released at this time. The cause of the fire remains under investigation. KOSA-TV CBS 7 ODESSA Resident jumps to safety out of burning apartment building in southeast Houston VIDEO: About 15 families are out of their homes after a fire broke out Thursday afternoon at an apartment complex in southeast Houston. The two-alarm apartment fire happened in the 7900 block of Bellfort Avenue at around 12:58 p.m. According to authorities, at least 15 units were damaged in the fire. One person was taken to the hospital, according to authorities. Officials add that one resident jumped out of the building to safety during the fire. It is not know if that person is the one who was hospitalized. The cause of the fire is unknown. Arson officials are investigating to determine what happened. KTRK-TV ABC 13 HOUSTON Austin-Travis County prepare to distribute first COVID-19 vaccines While COVID-19 cases continue to flood the state approaching the highs we saw back in July, new COVID vaccines are expected to only trickle in at first... and not for a few weeks yet. Today the Travis County Commissioners Court will get an update on local COVID levels and the availability of those new vaccines. Pfizer and Eli Lilly both announced vaccines that claim at least a 90% success rate in preventing COVID-19 in patients. Austin Public Health just joined with local health care and community partners to form a COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution Coalition to decide how to get the COVID vaccine to the public. Austin Mayor Steve Adler doesn't expect to see the first shots available until next year at the earliest. "It's going to be after the first of the year on a very limited basis," he says noting, "It's going to be hard to deliver. Looks like it may take a couple of shots, applications, a shot then a booster." KEYE-TV CBS 42 AUSTIN Fire destroys home in Shepherd All that remains of a mobile home at 41 Holcomb St. in Shepherd are the metal frame and ashes of items that once belonged to Shianne Ott and her two young children. The family's home erupted into flames about 2:11 p.m. Wednesday and firefighters were unable to save it. "For all practical purposes, it is a total loss," said San Jacinto County Fire Marshal Jeff Williams. In the days leading up to the fire, Shianne Ott said she had experienced some outages at her home, which she chalked up to problems with the power company. Her family had only lived in the rented home for a month, so she says she wasn't sure what to expect. "In the evening when I was cooking, the electricity would go off. I was like, okay, I guess the power company is fixing something. Then it would come back on after about 10 minutes. Then it started happening every day, so I knew that it couldn't be the power company. Two days ago, it went off and didn't come back on," Ott said. BLUEBONNET NEWS New gear for Sherman firefighters, EMTs The Sherman Fire Department plans to use a $500,000 grant to defend against the coronavirus. Initially, the funds were used for the basics: Gloves, masks and sanitizers. The balance is going towards new gear for firefighters, a dryer, and a lot of new equipment. First responders have real concerns about the impact of coming into contact with people on a regular basis. "Purchasing additional sets of this bunker gear for our department, so if they were possibly contaminated with the virus on a medical call while wearing this PPE or on a motor vehicle accident, we could put them in another set, a clean set," explained Chief Danny Jones. Also on the purchase list: Ultraviolet lights for ambulances. "This UV lighting goes for a certain period of time and can kill all the virus, and basically disinfects the back of that ambulance," Jones said. The funds for the gear come from the CARES Act. KTEN-TV NBC 10 ADA Texas A&M Needs Frontline Workers to Test Tuberculosis Vaccine in Fight Against COVID-19 Texas A&M University researchers are looking for hundreds of first responders and frontline medical workers to join a clinical trial of a current tuberculosis vaccine that could be used in the fight against COVID-19. The university said they need volunteers to join "a late-stage, phase 4 clinical trial of a nearly 100-year-old, commonly used tuberculosis vaccine, BCG, that could blunt the devastating effects of COVID-19." Researchers hope to show that BCG mitigates the effects of COVID-19, "allowing fewer people to be hospitalized or die" after becoming infected. The vaccine does not prevent infection, but strengthens a person's immune response. In a statement Thursday, Texas A&M said the trial began in April with medical workers in the Houston and College Station areas, but that they are now expanding the trial and want to recruit volunteers from those in the Austin and Dallas areas. KXAS-TV NBC 5 DALLAS - FORT WORTH PREVIOUS STATE NEWS |
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VIDEO: Massive fire destroys New York county warehouse A massive fire destroyed at least one building in Orange County. A large fire broke out around 11 a.m. on Thursday in Middletown at a large commercial building on Midland Avenue. The blaze also started a number of brush fires behind the building. "On Thursday 11/19/2020 Middletown FD was alerted to a structure fire on Midland Avenue Extension. On arrival, units had heavy fire in a commercial building. We would like to thank the MANY agencies that were operating on scene, the brush fires, standby, and the OC management teams. THANK YOU," the Middletown Fire Department wrote on Facebook while sharing photos of the blaze Friday morning. Officials from the City of Middletown confirmed the fire started at 9 Midland Avenue. The blaze caused several roads to close including parts of Wisner Avenue and North Street. It's believed the blaze was started when a forklift hit a natural gas line, NewsSource reports. No injuries were reported. HUDSON VALLEY POST Kansas department wants firefighters exposed to COVID-19, but not positive, to continue to work The Kansas City, Kansas Fire Department says firefighters who have been exposed to COVID-19 but who have not tested positive should continue to work. The fire department says that since the virus hit, 67 members have tested positive. There are more than 400 members of the firefighters union. "I think it's creating a potentially dangerous situation for both the firefighters and the public," said union president J.J. Simma. If a firefighter tests positive, it's treated like any on-duty injury. If a firefighter is exposed, but not showing symptoms, they still must quarantine but they would have to use their own sick time. It is not treated the same as an on-duty injury. "If I am quarantined and I have no illness, I have nothing to put down on the injury or illness on-duty form," fire Chief Michael Callahan said. Simma said some new firefighters who lack much built-up time off are exhausting their sick leave and vacations. KMBC-TV ABC 9 KANSAS CITY Owners of businesses tied to Los Angeles explosion that injured firefighters strike plea deals The owners of two smoking and vaping supply stores in downtown Los Angeles where a large explosion left several firefighters seriously injured struck plea deals with prosecutors Thursday that call for their businesses to pay more than $100,000 to the city. As part of the agreement with the Los Angeles city attorney's office, the retail businesses, Smoke Tokes and Green Buddha, must pay the Los Angeles Fire Department roughly $127,000 to compensate the agency for the investigation into the May 16 blast, which rocked downtown L.A. In addition, Raheel Lakhany and Shafaq Sattar, who each owned one of businesses, agreed to cease operating at the location of the fire. Charges against Lakhany and Sattar as individual defendants were dismissed as part of the deal. Instead, their businesses pleaded no contest to four municipal code violations involving the improper storage of flammable materials and other fire code violations. LOS ANGELES TIMES - METERED SITE 'New era in vaccine design': How the COVID vaccine works & why it's different than others The coronavirus vaccine works entirely different than any other human vaccine ever used. Scientists say to not think of this vaccine like a flu shot, because it uses new technology some are calling a game changer. "It's a new era in vaccine design," says postdoctoral researcher Stephen Goldstein. A flu vaccine is a diluted version of the virus that might provide a defense if the actual virus is introduced into the human body. When a patient gets injected with the coronavirus vaccine, messenger RNA carries instructions to the cells on how to make COVID-19 spike proteins. The spike proteins have shown to not be harmful to humans during clinical trials. Goldstein says the body can pump out huge quantiles of the spike protein into the blood stream, which can then attack the virus if it's introduced into the body. KUTV-TV CBS 2 NEWS SALT LAKE CITY Utah: Hill Air Force Base expands emergency response capability with new state-of-the-art vehicles PHOTOS: The 775th Civil Engineering Squadron Fire and Emergency Services Flight recently added two new vehicles to their fleet Oct. 29, which will greatly expand emergency and incident response capability. The first of two is a 2020 Oshkosh P-23 Aircraft Rescue Firefighting vehicle. The truck, which has a call sign of "Crash 8," is a completely modernized, top-tier aircraft fire response vehicle that uses the latest in technology for efficiency and crew safety. Although it is usually deployed with three firefighters, the truck is designed to be completely operated by one firefighter within the cab. The large, reinforced heat resistant glass cockpit area provides greatly improved visibility while the 6-by-6 wheel drive and articulating axles allow for a tighter turning radius. "With 3,000 gallons of water, 420 gallons of AFFF (foam) and 500 pounds of dry chemical, this platform utilizes integrated computer software to control the pump pressures and valves, in order to pump and roll or simultaneously move while applying agent," said Jeff Herriott, 775th CES deputy fire chief. ROBINS AIR FORCE BASE PREVIOUS NATIONAL NEWS |
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