Posted: May 11, 2022
VIDEOS: A raging fire at a waste management facility sent thick, black smoke into the sky for hours Tuesday in Elizabeth, New Jersey.
The fire is out, but officials say one person was found dead Wednesday morning. CBS2's Elijah Westbrook has learned the fire claimed the life of a person who first responders believe was a missing employee.
- PUB DATE: 5/11/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WCBS-TV CBS 2 New York
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Posted: May 11, 2022
People lined the streets of Kutztown for the long-anticipated return of a hand pumper used to fight fires in the mid 1800's. "Joel Bates built approximately 27 hand pumpers between the 1820's and 1850's," says Jeremy Bellois, history buff formerly of Kutztown Fire Company, who currently runs with Allentown Fire Dept.
- PUB DATE: 5/11/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WFMZ-TV 69 Allentown
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Posted: May 11, 2022
AT&T on Tuesday announced the launch of its new location-based routing to automatically transmit wireless 9-1-1 calls to the appropriate 9-1-1 call centers on a nationwide basis. AT&T can quickly and more accurately identify where a wireless 9-1-1 call is coming from using device GPS and hybrid information to route the call to the correct 9-1-1 call center, also known as public safety answering point or PSAP.
- PUB DATE: 5/11/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: MacTrast
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Posted: May 11, 2022
A young man is breathing a little easier after nearly losing an engagement ring to a vehicle fire on Monday.
According to Williamson County Fire Rescue, fire crews were dispatched to a car fire off I-840 on Monday afternoon. Fire-Rescue crews arrived to find the vehicle fully involved and quickly moved to stop the flames.
- PUB DATE: 5/11/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WSMV-TV NBC 4 Nashville
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Posted: May 11, 2022
The steady increase in COVID-19 cases this past month is not disconcerting to Americans, as they are less worried now about the coronavirus than they were at the start of the year, and fewer are social distancing.
Fewer than one in three U.S. adults (31%) say they are "very" or "somewhat worried" about getting COVID-19, statistically similar to the 34% recorded in mid-February when cases were steeply declining after the omicron spike.
- PUB DATE: 5/11/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Gallup News
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