Five people have been left without a home after a house fire on St. Cecelia Drive in Chesterfield, leading the Chesterfield Fire Department to issue a warning to other residents. The fire department received a call at 8 am and the first crews arrived on scene within 4 minutes. There, they found flames emerging from the roof of the home.
- PUB DATE: 3/21/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WRIC-TV ABC 8 Richmond

VIDEO: Two Sparks firefighters are now providing a piece of equipment to fire stations all over the country. ‘We came up with an idea of trying to find a way to protect the lens of our SCBA mask,” said co-owner Cody Cavin. What started as an idea became BA Shields, where they manufacture shields that cover the lens of a firefighter’s self-contained breathing apparatus.
- PUB DATE: 3/21/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KOLO-TV ABC/CW+ 8 Reno

PHOTOS: The city of Highland Park has added a $1 million truck to its firefighting fleet, the first new vehicle for its Fire Department since a private resident donated one nine years ago. The city received about $850,000 from the state to buy Ladder 1 with the help of state Rep. Helena Scott, D-Detroit, according to Highland Park Mayor Hubert Yopp.
- PUB DATE: 3/21/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Detroit News - Metered Site

Some familiar faces to the first-responder industry this week announced the Public Safety Towers Company (PSTC), which enters the competitive wireless-infrastructure space while promising to take a public-safety-centric approach in an effort to find synergies between government-owned assets and commercial-carrier needs.
- PUB DATE: 3/21/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: IWCE's Urgent Communications

PHOTOS: The Baltimore City Fire Department’s largest boat could be used to rescue a cargo ship that has been stuck in the Chesapeake Bay since mid-March, according to the local firefighters’ union. The Baltimore Firefighters IAFF Local 734 said in a social media post on Sunday that the fireboat has the ability to help with operations to safely remove the Hong Kong-flagged ship Ever Forward from the bay.
- PUB DATE: 3/21/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WJZ-TV CBS 13 Baltimore