PHOTOS: Video shows Wyoming firefighters carrying a small child to safety and helping two adults escape a third-floor apartment during a fire Monday night.

The Wyoming Fire Department is still investigating what caused the fire, which broke out around 8:45 p.m. at Crossroads Apartments on Clyde Park Avenue SW near 44th Street SW. When crews arrived, they found smoke and heavy flames that were moving toward the roof. Then, they learned there were people trapped on the third floor.

Helmet video released by the fire department Tuesday shows crews hurrying to put a 35-foot ladder up to the window of the apartment where the people were. “Do not jump,” firefighters can be heard telling a woman in the apartment. “There’s a ladder coming up.”

“Help me,” the woman said as she handed a child out of the window to a firefighter. “Thank you. Thank you guys. My baby, please, my baby.”

WOOD-TV NBC 8 Grand Rapids

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VIDEO: At a UPMC training center in Lemoyne, Cumberland County, EMT Matt Warner counts out loud with elbows locked and pushing hard and fast. Teaching strangers how to save a life is what he does for a living. Last year, though, Warner became the one who needed saving.

“[During the] Farm Show [in] 2024, I was working in our first aid office. I was perfectly fine that morning, and then, next thing I know, I’m on the ground looking up,” Warner said. Co-workers rushed in, starting CPR and grabbing an AED.

“They did chest compressions on me for about three or four minutes. They delivered one shock and continued chest compressions for another minute or so, and then I woke up there,” he said. At the hospital, doctors discovered a blockage in his heart and put a stent in the then-43-year-old.

Warner says survival often depends on who’s nearby. Bystander CPR saves lives, but research shows only about 20% of people actually step in during an emergency. He says this is, in part, because of fear and myths they potentially see on TV.

WPMT-TV FOX 43 York

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PHOTOS: Firefighters at the Great Jones Street firehouse in Lower Manhattan, New York, were in the midst of a shift change on Sept. 11, 2001, when terrorists attacked the World Trade Center.

By the end of the day, 10 of the 14 firefighters from the station that houses Engine Company 33 and Ladder Company 9 would be killed, and the cab of Ladder 9’s truck would be crushed by falling debris.

Nearly 25 years later, the truck Ladder 9 firefighters used to rush to the scene of the deadliest terrorist attack in U.S. history is being restored at 10-8 Emergency Vehicle Service in New Holland.

For Jon Bredbetter, a service technician at the company that sells, repairs, and customizes emergency vehicles, the work has become a passion project. The U.S. Marine Corps veteran said he was excited by the idea of helping restore a piece of history.

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VIDEO: A fire at a duplex home in Lynnwood was fatal on Monday night, according to fire officials. Crews search the home in the 2800 block of 200th Street Southwest overnight found a man in his 60s who had died. The fire just before 9 p.m. and was mostly contained to one side of the duplex.

Fire officials said one side of the home was able to evacuate, but crews had to search the other side of the building room-by-room. Structural issues and debris made the search a challenge, fire officials said. Additional details about the number of residents or other injuries were not immediately available. Firefighters will likely remain on scene into the early morning. The cause of the fire is under investigation.

KING-TV NBC 5 Seattle

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PHOTOS: When a two-alarm fire threatened to spread from a warehouse in a rural community on Saturday, nearly a dozen firefighting agencies responded to help put out the fire without any injuries to residents or firefighters. According to Nile-Cliffdell Fire and Rescue District 14, at about 11:19 a.m. on January 17 firefighters responded to a reported structure fire in the Chinook Pass area. Firefighters said they arrived to find a sizable fire in a large warehouse. However, the fire was intense enough that it threatened to spread to nearby buildings and other flammable objects, according to fire officials.

Nile-Cliffdell firefighters said they called a second-alarm fire at the scene, notifying surrounding fire departments of the fire and calling for help. Firefighters from several neighboring fire departments arrived to help put out the blaze. Officials said the building and most of the contents were severely damaged, but the fire was contained to the structure and no residents or firefighters were injured.

In addition to Nile-Cliffdell Fire and Rescue District 14, several other firefighting agencies responded. Those included Yakima Valley Emergency Management, West Valley Fire Rescue, Selah Fire Department, Gleed Fire Department, Naches Fire Department, Highland Fire, Naches Heights Fire Department, and American Medical Response Yakima.

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