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Posted: May 6, 2022

Fire Takes Toll On Firefighters In New York; Three Receive Narcan

Ten firefighters were transported to the hospital, three of whom were administered naloxone, after becoming ill while at the scene of a house fire Wednesday afternoon on Webster Road in the town of Portland. All of the first responders have since been released and are recovering at home, Portland Fire Chief David McIntyre said.
- PUB DATE: 5/6/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Post-Journal
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Posted: May 6, 2022

Fireboat 'Tommy' finds new home at the Fire Museum of Maryland

PHOTO: A piece of Baltimore history has a new home in Timonium. The fireboat "Tommy" rolled into the Fire Museum of Maryland on a flatbed truck Thursday morning. The boat is named after former Baltimore Mayor Thomas D'Alesandro Jr., who served the city for 59 years and is the father of U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
- PUB DATE: 5/6/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WBAL-TV NBC 11 Maryland
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Posted: May 6, 2022

Thirst Responders: Volunteer firefighters in Florida turn 1st truck into ‘beer truck’ for events

VIDEO: A duo in Hernando County are bringing the beverages to events around the Tampa Bay area in a very unique way. Jeffrey Jackson and Devin Mormando volunteered in the 1991 fire truck they now run for events. They saw the truck in an auction and new they had to have it. “We used to volunteer on it back at our volunteer department locally.
- PUB DATE: 5/6/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WFLA-TV NBC 8 Tampa
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Posted: May 6, 2022

CDC Forecast: Expect rise in US COVID deaths, hospital admissions over next 4 weeks

VIDEO: For the first time in months, daily hospital admission levels and new COVID-19-related deaths in the United States are both projected to increase over the next four weeks, according to updated forecast models used by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The projected increases come after weeks of steady upticks in infections across the country, subsequent to the removal of masking requirements and mitigation measures in many states and cities.
- PUB DATE: 5/6/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WPVI-TV ABC 6 Philadelphia
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Posted: May 6, 2022

First responders use gigantic map to practice for potential 9.0 earthquake in Washington

VIDEO: First responders preparing for a massive earthquake planned on repeating the 2016 Cascadia Rising exercise, complete with troop and machinery movements. However, COVID-19 outbreaks in the fall caused the Federal Emergency Management Agency to downscale those plans for 2022. So instead of helicopters and dispatchers, a group of 200 emergency officials, with another 500 online, participated in an exercise at Camp Murray with an oversized map of the Pacific Northwest.
- PUB DATE: 5/6/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KGW-TV NBC 8 Portland
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