All, Master Firefighter Preston Lee Fant, a 21-year veteran of DeKalb County Fire Rescue, will be laid to rest Thursday, Sept. 18, following a public funeral service at Truist Park. As you know, Fant, 53, died in the Line of Duty on Sept. 8 while operating in a warehouse fire in Lithonia. He was trying to...Read More
The Bonita Springs Fire Control & Rescue District battled a house fire that led to a firefighter being hospitalized and the death of a dog. Crews began combating the blaze located on Miller Road, east of Interstate 75 and north of Bonita Beach Road, at around 12:36 a.m. on Friday. The fire took crews multiple...Read More
MOLINE, Ill. (KWQC) – A Moline Fire ladder truck was struck by a train as crews were putting out a fire at a machine shop Thursday morning. Firefighters were called about a industrial dust-collector fire at Williams White & Company near the railroad tracks in the 600 block of River Drive around 10 a.m., fire...Read More
MADISON COUNTY, Ill. – A man was left injured Thursday morning after stealing an ambulance and crashing it in South Roxana. According to the Illinois State Police Department (ISP), the crash incident happened shortly after 9 a.m. on Illinois Route 111 near Kearby Lane. The man stole the ambulance while he was getting unloaded out...Read More
OAKWOOD, Okla. — A paramedic with the Woodward County Emergency Medical Service was killed in a wreck while transporting a patient Thursday afternoon near Oakwood, officials confirmed. Chad Campbell, director of operations for Woodward County EMS, said at about 3:30 p.m. Thursday, paramedics arrived to a wreck near U.S. 270 and E 770 Road, about...Read More
