Posted: Mar 10, 2022
PHOTOS: More than two years, $50 million and one ocean crossing later, San Francisco has its newest fire station. And it floats. The San Francisco Fire Department's two-story Fireboat Station 35 opens for operations Thursday on the Embarcadero at Pier 22½, more than a year after it was floated across the bay at low tide in the predawn dark from Treasure Island, where the superstructure was constructed.
- PUB DATE: 3/10/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle - Metered Site
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Posted: Mar 10, 2022
Two Phoenix firefighters took him big titles just days ago at The Arnold Classic. Daniel Camacho was named the World’s Strongest Firefighter and even got a shout-out from Arnold Schwarzenegger on Instagram.
“We all grew up watching him, admiring him, so yeah, it’s hard to explain that feeling, you know,” said Camacho.
- PUB DATE: 3/10/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KASW-CW6 & KTVK-3TV (azfamily.com)
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Posted: Mar 10, 2022
Four months after the deadly Astroworld tragedy that killed 10 concertgoers, rapper Travis Scott announced a $5 million initiative dubbed "Project HEAL" that he says will be a "catalyst for real change" to heal in the aftermath.
Scott, 30, detailed Tuesday a four-pronged project that includes solutions to address "challenges facing today's youth, especially those from marginalized and at-risk communities": $1 million in academic scholarships to historically black colleges and universities, free mental health resources, a creative design education program and a new tech-driven solution for event safety.
- PUB DATE: 3/10/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: USA Today
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Posted: Mar 10, 2022
Three people were given medical attention and one was taken to the hospital after an apartment fire early Thursday in Belltown.
The fire call came in around 2:40 a.m. in the 2200 block of 1st Avenue, at the Bell Tower apartments. The Seattle Housing Authority runs the apartment.
Seattle firefighters say a man in the bathroom lobby was found and rushed to a hospital in critical condition.
- PUB DATE: 3/10/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KOMO-TV ABC 4 Seattle
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Posted: Mar 10, 2022
Incredible body-worn camera video posted by the Benton County Sheriff's Office (BCSO) on Wednesday shows a corporal rescuing a man from inside a burning car in Kennewick.
On Monday, Corporal JP Benitez said he was driving by and saw a burning SUV in the Rite Aid parking lot off W Clearwater Ave and Highway 395.
- PUB DATE: 3/10/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KIMA-TV CBS News Yakima
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