MACON, Ga. (WGXA) — Three firefighters were sent to the hospital after their truck overturned when responding to an emergency, according to the Macon-Bibb County Fire Chief, Shane Edwards. Edwards says around 5:00 PM, the fire department’s Engine Two, located on Hardeman Avenue, responded to a call on 2nd Street. (Credit: WGXA Source)As the firetruck attempted...Read More
A day after St. Louis Mayor Cara Spencer said the city’s outdoor warning siren wasn’t activated during a deadly tornado because of “human error,” the commissioner of the City Emergency Management Agency was placed on paid administrative leave. The National Weather Service has issued a tornado warning in Current Time 0:06 The mayor’s office cited...Read More
LOS ANGELES — It is perhaps the most pressing unanswered question from Los Angeles’ January firestorm: How did officials fail to issue timely evacuation alerts for residents in west Altadena, where all but one of 18 Eaton fire deaths occurred? Nearly five months after the deadly fire decimated Altadena, two possible scenarios have emerged as...Read More
A man in Chatham County, Georgia called 911 earlier this year, after his wife called him at work . . . saying that someone was snooping around their house, and banging on the doors and windows. It was someone they knew, so he initially called the county’s non-emergency line, but no one picked up. So...Read More
All, Yesterday, NIOSH published a NIOSH Safety and Health Advisory titled Reporting Adverse Conditions Involving Self-Contained Breathing Apparatus – Thermal Degradation and Failure of Facepiece Lens. This Safety and Health Advisory educates fire departments on an issue with self-contained breathing apparatus (SCBA) facepiece lenses that are certified to the 2007 or earlier edition of NFPA 1981. Specifically,...Read More
