VIDEO: A San Antonio Fire Department program is now the gold standard across the country, making whole blood available on ambulances and at trauma scenes. Three years ago, San Antonio mom Tiffany Kieschnick was driving to the store to get her son iced tea. “I ended up having a stroke on my way home, and I flipped my car into a ditch and coded in the car.
- PUB DATE: 9/15/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KSAT-TV ABC 12 San Antonio

First responders are training together for an active shooter on campus. Their focus is saving lives faster. For the exercise, it’s an active shooter on campus and first responders from the Honolulu Police Department and Honolulu Fire Department carried mock victims from the building into an ambulance.
- PUB DATE: 9/15/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Hawaii News Now

Usually when people turn 100, they’re no longer active in their profession, however, Curtis Kennedy is anything but usual. He recently celebrated his 100th birthday, but Kennedy – an original fire commissioner for the McLeansville Fire Department when it began in 1951 – still plays an active role as a fire commissioner for the department.
- PUB DATE: 9/15/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Rhino Times

VIDEO: On Wednesday morning the Virginia Patriot Guard Riders arrived in Lexington for a 9/11 Remembrance Ceremony. A flag that once flew in New York at the World Trade Center after the September 11th attacks was displayed on the flag pole at the Lexington fire department for 9 minutes and 11 seconds during the ceremony.
- PUB DATE: 9/15/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WFXR-TV FOX 27 Roanoke

Seattle residents have asked city officials to offer more types of crisis response that don't involve law enforcement. The mayor's office has convened a work group on the issue. Meanwhile, the Seattle Fire Department is expanding its efforts in that direction. The Seattle Fire Department’s Health One teams were launched in 2019.
- PUB DATE: 9/15/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KUOW-FM 94.9 Seattle