Along Blue Heron Boulevard and Congress Avenue, construction is officially underway for a new fire station in Riviera Beach. On Tuesday, City leaders broke ground on a $17 million fire house that is expected to be up and running by the end of next year. The new station will be one of the most state-of-the-art fire stations in the county if not the state, Fire Chief John Curd said.
- PUB DATE: 2/16/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WPTV NBC 5 West Palm Beach

PHOTOS: Several days of ice rescue training for Monroe Fire Protection District firefighters last week proved useful when a call came in about what appeared to be a person's head visible above the ice near the Lake Monroe spillway. Friday afternoon, firefighters from Station 21 were dispatched to the Lake Monroe spillway after receiving a report of a person’s head sticking out of the ice.
- PUB DATE: 2/16/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Herald Times Online

VIDEO: Those who knew lifelong firefighter Donald E. Whitaker said he had a love for people and a passion for fire service. “They didn’t call him by name, it was Chief, Chief Whitaker” Wife Ethel Whitaker said. “Yea Chief Whitaker,” Niece Jane Jones said. “Chief what can I do? What do you need? It was Chief.
- PUB DATE: 2/16/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WFMY-TV CBS 2 Greensboro

The seven-day average of new Coronavirus infections in the United States has fallen to a number not seen since the delta surge of last summer began to die down, though cases remain higher than during much of the pandemic. The country had an average of 153,029 cases per day as of Monday, according to tracking by The Washington Post.
- PUB DATE: 2/16/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Washington Post

VIDEO/PHOTOS: An abandoned elementary school is burning Wednesday morning in SeaTac. Firefighters say the call came in after midnight for the smoke and flames erupting from what used to be Maywood Elementary School, which quickly escalated to a two-alarm fire. Crews have been trying to slow the fire and smoke down for hours but did say there have been no reported injuries at the time.
- PUB DATE: 2/16/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KOMO-TV ABC 4 Seattle