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| Crash shuts down I-35 mainlanes after 18-wheeler hits Belton fire truck Southbound I-35 is back open after an 18-wheeler crashed into a fire truck, tow truck and car it was pulling early Tuesday morning in Belton. The incident occurred at 2:28 a.m. near the I-14 overpass on southbound I-35. "Belton firefighters were assisting at an accident when an 18-wheeler hit the fire truck and the wrecker," said Belton spokesperson Paul Romer. The fire truck was on the scene of an accident blocking lanes for an earlier wreck when the 18-wheeler struck the fire engine, a tow truck and a car it was pulling. Officials say firefighters were in the engine when it was hit. Three firefighters suffered minor injuries. They were transported to Scott & White Hospital as a precaution. The crash also caused a diesel spill after a large piece of debris from the crash landed on northbound I-35 and was struck by another 18-wheeler. KXXV-TV ABC 25 WACO Waco house fire sends 2 to hospital Two people are hospitalized after a fire broke out inside a home in Waco Monday evening. Firefighters responded to the home in the 2700 block of Mitchell Avenue at around 8:20 p.m. Monday. Two people inside made it out of the home, but were transported to the hospital with minor injuries. No other injuries were reported. The cause of the fire is under investigation. KWTX-TV 10 NEWS WACO Multiple crews respond to raging fire near Lake Travis VIDEO: Firefighters from multiple agencies responded to a raging fire in Point Venture near Lake Travis on Sunday afternoon. A Travis County Emergency Services District #1 spokesperson said the fire broke out at a three-story house off Venture Boulevard at around 3:00 p.m. When first responders arrived, they found that the fire had gotten under the house and spread across the structure. The spokesperson said there were two people inside the house at the time of the fire and got out safe. Firefighters with the Austin Fire Department and Volente Fire Department helped Travis County ESD #1 crews because at the time of the call, they were working a brush fire at the opposite end of the county. No neighbors were evacuated from nearby homes and there were no injuries. KXAN-TV NBC 36 AUSTIN Rio Bravo fire officials continue their search for alleged arsonist The investigation continues after a string of fires were reported in Rio Bravo last week. Fire officials in Rio Bravo were searching for an alleged arsonist after they received reports of three house fires, a trash bin fire, and a grass fire. According to Chief Gonzalez, the investigators in the case have not contacted them. He says some of the families affected have received help from non-profit organizations. Since the incident, no other fires have been reported. If you have any information on the person responsible you are asked to call county authorities. KGNS-TV NBC 8 Beaumont family displaced following house fire Saturday night, cause under investigation Beaumont Fire/Rescue crews were called to fight a house fire just after 10 p.m. Saturday night. It happened in the 2600 block of Bolivar Street in Beaumont, near Goliad Street, and took firefighters roughly 30 minutes to get under control. Details have not been released about how the fire started as fire officials continue to investigate the cause of the blaze. Crime scene tape still surrounds the structure and an arson investigator was seen looking through the home on Sunday. 12News spoke with members of a family of five, who say they had lived in the house for 17 years. Luckily, they were not home when the fire erupted but the house is severely damaged. The family saw the aftermath for the first time Sunday afternoon, and told 12News they were shocked to see what happened. KBMT-TV ABC 12 PREVIOUS STATE NEWS |
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| Governor: Firefighters called to 330 fires across California in 24 hours In the last 24 hours, firefighters have responded to an estimated 330 fires across California, Governor Gavin Newsom stated in a press conference Monday afternoon. The update comes as the Kincade Fire, which sparked northeast of Geyserville on October 23, continues to burn across Northern California. At the time of Newsom's press conference, the fire had burned more than 66,000 acres, and was 5% contained. Despite the high figures, Newsom says this fire season is not worse than in recent years, "though it may feel like it." "We're entering the peak part of fire season that is very familiar to us in California, but not people out of state," Newsom said. "Most people think about fire season as part of the [summer] ... I'll remind folks the Camp Fire and Woolsey Fire, in Northern and Southern California, occurred in the first week of November, so we are very vigilant in this moment. The winds are vexing and are the most [complex] part of this fire. But the good news is the winds are resting." SF GATE ‘He's going to be irreplaceable': Veteran D.C. firefighter who maintained apparatus dies of heart attack Alex Graham was a fixture behind the wheel of Engine 21, part of a crew known as the Alley Rats that raced to calls around Northwest Washington's Adams Morgan neighborhood. But it was in Graham's less flashy work on the training grounds at the other end of the city where the 48-year-old became the department's go-to fix-it man, making sure water flowed from engines and through hoses at the required rate and that ladders could be raised to burning structures. The 17-year veteran known as "Big Al" suffered a heart attack and collapsed on Thursday while conducting a water flow test at the training facility in Blue Plains and died Sunday surrounded by his family at George Washington University Hospital, a department spokesman said. He is the District's 101st firefighter to die in the line of duty and the first since Lt. Kevin McRae had a heart attack at a fire in Shaw in 2015. THE WASHINGTON POST Federal jury says city must pay FDNY EMS members for time spent preparing for their shifts They did the time — now they're going to get paid for it. A federal jury ordered the city to cough up millions of dollars to FDNY emergency medical technicians and paramedics who were stiffed for time spent on preparations before and after their shifts, attorneys for the first responders said Saturday. The judgement came down Friday following a three-week trial, with the jury finding that the city violated the federal Fair Labor Standards Act. More than 2,500 EMTs and paramedics signed onto the suit, which claimed the city never paid them for 15 minutes prior to their tours used to prep their equipment, as well as the 15 minutes after every shift to re-stock their ambulances and exchange information with the next tour — even though they were logged into the electronic time keeping system for city employees, known as CityTime. NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Close call at Kincade Fire in California: Hero firefighter shields evacuees from surging flames, all survive A firefighter battling the explosive Kincade Fire near Geyserville was forced to deploy his personal fire shelter to prevent two residents from being overcome by flames as the blaze surged Friday evening, state officials said. Fire shelters are used as a last resort, and the rescue, at about 6:20 p.m. Friday, prompted deep alarm among crews at the Sonoma County blaze. Cal Fire said the firefighter and the two civilians were expected to survive. All three were taken by ground ambulance to a hospital "for evaluation," Cal Fire said in a statement. "All injuries appear to be non-life-threatening." "While working on an active portion of the fire, the firefighter came across two civilians who were attempting to evacuate from the fire when fire activity intensified," officials said. "At that point the firefighter was forced to deploy his fire shelter, where he shielded them from fire." SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE - METERED SITE Ohio could add more firefighters, but state grants come with a cost Fairfield officials are debating whether to accept a federal firefighting staffing grant because of the city's own financial obligations that come with the funding. Fairfield was awarded a nearly $1.26 million Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response (SAFER) grant so the fire department could hire six firefighters. The grant requires the city to conribute about $783,000.The city will pay for the upfront personnel costs (such as wages, contractual overtime and benefits) and will be reimbursed over the next three years. The city is also required to maintain the staffing level after the grant period. "The idea behind the SAFER grant is that it should be adding to your operating staffing and therefore the amount of overtime should be decreased by the additional resources that are provided by the federal government," said Finance Director Scott Timmer. JOURNAL-NEWS PREVIOUS NATIONAL NEWS |
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