ATLANTA - The 19-year-old ambulance driver involved in a deadly crash along a busy southwest Atlanta roadway on Monday turned himself in to the Fulton County Jail on Thursday. John Walker faces two counts of vehicular homicide, speeding, and failure to maintain … [Read more...]
UPDATE: Officials say the injured firefighter’s condition is improving and is responding well to medical treatment. RANSOM TOWNSHIP, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU)— A firefighter was transported to the hospital while responding to a fire in Lackawanna County. At 5:20 p.m. … [Read more...]
DRACUT, Mass. — A firefighter was injured while battling a three-alarm fire at an apartment building in Dracut, Massachusetts. The fire started in a kitchen shortly after 9 p.m. Tuesday on the second floor of a building at 200 Merrill Lane and spread up the wall to the … [Read more...]
(Updated at 6:55 p.m.) Several people have been hospitalized after a crash on Richmond Highway (Route 1) in Groveton that involved four different vehicles, including a Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department truck. One person sustained injuries considered life-threatening, … [Read more...]
ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY, Md. (DC News Now) — A Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 was in its takeoff roll at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI) when an ambulance crossed the same runway, coming within 173 feet of the plane. The distance between the … [Read more...]
All, Who’s watching the kids? WHO checks the status of smoke alarms at vacation properties, sleepovers, grandparents house, hotels … anywhere and everywhere yours/mine/our kids stay.... I, like everyone else, was (and remain) stunned after learning that a dwelling fire in … [Read more...]
BARTOW COUNTY, Ga. — A 41-year-old firefighter in Bartow County died following "complications" during a training exercise, according to the Bartow County Fire and Emergency Services Facebook page. The agency said Matthew Smith died around 5 p.m. on March 16 from … [Read more...]