Genoa received a $450,000 USDA grant to help buy a new fire engine for its volunteer fire department, replacing a 30-year-old engine.

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VIDEO: A fire on Wednesday night caused serious damage to parts of a multi-family home in Hamlin with an attached auto repair shop. The Hamlin Fire Department says the flames broke out just before 7:20 p.m. at the corner of Walker Lake Ontario Road and Walker Road.

The fire seriously damaged the building’s second floor, and the first floor has water damage. Fire officials say no one was hurt and are still working to learn how the fire started. They say it’s unknown if anyone was home when the fire started.

Firefighters from Hilton, Brockport, and North Greece also responded. In a Facebook post, the Brockport Fire Department said its crew helped with cutting ventilation openings in the main roof, allowing another crew to access a lower secondary roof.

During those ventilation efforts, crews discovered that fire had extended to the back of the building Brockport FD said battling the fire was a challenge because of the building’s construction, including tongue-and-groove ceilings covered with plywood and walls made of multiple layers of paneling.

WHEC-TV NBC 10 Rochester

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VIDEO: Eric Jackson Jr. is just 19, but he’s already following in his father’s footsteps as a firefighter with the Pine Bluff Fire Department. If Junior has his way, he’ll eventually surpass his father, Eric Jackson Sr., in the profession they share.

“Thank you for letting me get this far and teaching me how to do it. And I’m still gonna be better than you eventually,” Junior said. His father welcomed the challenge with a laugh. “Oh, my goodness! He wants that challenge. We will see,” Senior said.

The friendly competition reflects a deeper connection between the two: a shared commitment to serving their community.

For Junior, the decision to become a firefighter began years before his first shift. Watching his father provide for their family and interact with people through his work helped inspire him to pursue the same path.

“It all started in high school,” Junior said. “I started seeing how he was providing for the family and what it brought to it, and also seeing how he interacted with other people on the job. So it made me want to do it even more.”

KTHV-TV CBS 11 Little Rock

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A17-year-old student is making waves with her fire safety innovation. Ángela Karime Hernández Venegas, from Tamaulipas, Mexico, created a fire extinguisher that doesn’t require water or chemicals. Instead, it uses low-frequency sound waves, saving resources while remaining as portable and easy to carry as a regular extinguisher.

Named Vortex Tech, Hernández’s device includes a custom bucket that is also a barrel, a 12-volt battery, a frequency generator, an amplifier, and a speaker. The gadget generates a low frequency of 30 hertz, or 30 sound pulses per second.

The speaker then turns the frequency into sound waves, which are thrust toward a small circular opening at the end of the barrel. This generates a phenomenon known as vortex rings, in which a donut-shaped flow causes a slight turbulence in the surrounding air, striking and dissipating the oxygen fueling the flames.

Hernández felt inspired to build Vortex Tech after watching a video from the United States’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which used a 13-foot-long sonic cannon to extinguish a flame using only sound waves.

“The main goal was to demonstrate that the physical principle [of vortex rings] could blow out a candle,” she told Spanish newspaper El País. “DARPA’s sonic cannon indicated that the method was feasible.”

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Five first responders from fire districts across Spokane County and the Spokane County Sheriff’s Office were awarded “Hero of Honor” medals in New York City on Wednesday at the First Responders Children’s Foundation’s National First Responders Day ceremony hosted by Jon Stewart.

The five local awardees were Chief Matthew Vinci of Spokane County Fire District (SCFD) 9, Chief Mike Nokes of SCFD 4, Chief Tom Williams of the Spokane Fire Department, Chief Don Malone of SCFD 10, and Sheriff John Nowels of the Spokane County Sheriff’s Office.

Just 19 first responders across the country were selected for recognition. The Spokane-area first responders were also awarded the SERVPRO Natural Disaster Award for their “incredible response to the Spokane Complex Fires, successfully evacuating 65,000 residents with zero lives lost,” the First Responders Children’s Foundation said.

KHQ-TV NBC 6 Spokane

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