An initiative led by Indiana University is pushing the boundaries of technology to save first responders’ lives and expedite emergency response. A collaboration between the IU Luddy School of Informatics, Computing and Engineering and University Information Technology Services, the Crisis Technologies Innovation Lab is facilitating private investment and entrepreneurship activity in technology that provides first responders’ precise locations inside structures during a crisis and while locating survivors.
- PUB DATE: 12/14/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: News at Indiana University

VIDEO/PHOTOS: Two children and one adult were taken to the hospital after a fire in the Tillicum neighborhood of Lakewood on Wednesday. West Pierce Fire and Rescue (WPFR) said it received a call around 11:30 a.m. about an apartment fire on Washington Avenue. Firefighters entered the apartment and rescued two children from the fire.
- PUB DATE: 12/14/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KOMO-TV ABC 4 Seattle

Bucoda mayor, volunteer firefighter, truck driver and ranch owner Rob Gordon was recently diagnosed with stage 4 stomach cancer. On Dec. 17, in honor of the jack-of-all-trades, Skookumchuck Odd Fellows Lodge No. 129, Bucoda Rebekah Lodge No. 144, Trinity (Napavine) Rebekah Lodge No. 179, Bucoda Improvement Club, Bucoda Firefighters Association and the Tenino Fire Department are “banding together,” according to a news release.
- PUB DATE: 12/13/2023 10:14:45 PM - SOURCE: Centralia Chronicle

PHOTO: There’s a tradition in the fire service when a new piece of apparatus is added to the fleet, and students at Columbia Basin Technical Skills Center followed that tradition Wednesday morning. The city of Moses Lake and the Moses Lake Fire Department are allowing the use of a reserve MLFD fire engine by students in the skills center’s new fire science class.
- PUB DATE: 12/13/2023 3:01:00 PM - SOURCE: Columbia Basin Herald - Metered Site

PHOTOS: A raging 5-alarm fire raced through a row of Bronx businesses early Wednesday morning, leaving at least one person injured. The blaze broke out at Bunny’s Deli Cold Cut City at West 231st Street and Broadway in the Kingsbridge section just before 3:30 am, the FDNY said. Two dozen videos uploaded to Citizen App showed huge flames and plumes of thick black smoke shooting into the air, and a crowd of firefighters battling the inferno both from the street level and from tower ladders.
- PUB DATE: 12/13/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: New York Post