A Sullivan County firefighter is recovering from his injuries after he was forced to dangle from a window during a fire at a senior living complex - and it was all caught on camera. The Liberty volunteer firefighter is seen in the viral video clinging for safety to a fifth-story window Tuesday night.
- PUB DATE: 3/11/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: News 12 Westchester

VIDEO: KWWL news is currently on scene of a fire at the Lost Island Theme Park, currently under construction at the south edge of Waterloo, near the Isle Hotel and Casino, on the south side of Shaulis Road. The fire began between 7-8 p.m. There are no injuries. Eric Bertch, owner of the Lost Island, says an approximately 1500-square foot queue shelter building caught on fire at the far southwest edge of the park.
- PUB DATE: 3/11/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KWWL-TV NBC/CW 7 Waterloo

A Lafayette firefighter was injured after being forced over the ledge of an overpass when a semi-truck hit a nearby firetruck. The Lafayette Fire Department was on the scene Thursday night of a crash on Interstate 10 westbound near the Interstate 49 split. The firetruck was parked on the road while fire personnel helped with that crash, said Lafayette Police Department spokesperson Sgt.
- PUB DATE: 3/11/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Lafayette Daily Advertiser - Metered Site

The St. Louis Fire Department is creating a software database that will track the condition of vacant buildings. Thousands of vacant buildings lie in the city, and they often pose a threat to firefighters. But assembling the information for a database is a process. While the program has been in the works for years, recent events pushed it to the forefront after vacant building fire claimed the life of St.
- PUB DATE: 3/11/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KSDK-TV NBC 5 St. Louis

Another new COVID-19 variant has been detected. The World Health Organization has confirmed that the new variant, dubbed Deltacron — a combination of Delta and Omicron — has been detected in the France, Denmark and the Netherlands. "The hybrid genome harbors signature mutations of the two lineages," said IHU Méditerranée Infection's Philippe Colson in a study published Tuesday.
- PUB DATE: 3/11/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: People