Bridget Melton, Ed.D., professor in the Department of Health Sciences and Kinesiology at Georgia Southern University, is part of a team awarded $1.1 million from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to assist with a study aimed to promote wellness in firefighters and first responders. Melton is collaborating with researchers at the University of Kentucky as part of a three-year study that builds on a decade of foundational work by Melton and the Tactical Athlete Initiative team in the Waters College of Health Professions, College of Education and the Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health.
- PUB DATE: 9/14/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Coastal Courier

VIDEO: Five years after over-pressurized gas traveled through underground lines fueling fires and explosions across the Merrimack Valley, new legislation aims to prevent that from ever happening again. “We proposed new regulations to affect nearly 2.3 million miles of pipelines across the country,” said Tristan Brown, the Deputy Administrator of the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Administration part of the Department of Transportation.
- PUB DATE: 9/14/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WFXT-TV FOX 25 Boston

PHOTOS: People were seen jumping from second-story windows of a Lake Stevens apartment building to escape a fire on Wednesday. Snohomish Regional Fire and Rescue said flames broke out around 1:45 a.m. in the 1600 block of 127th Avenue Northeast. SRFR, SCFD4, Marysville Fire, Everett Fire, Granite Falls Fire, and Getchell Fire were all dispatched.
- PUB DATE: 9/14/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KIRO-TV CBS 7 Seattle

PHOTOS: Six kittens were discovered inside the walls of a newly constructed apartment complex in Washington state on Wednesday. Fire officials in Cowlitz County said a “faint noise” coming from inside a wall in the building, located in the city of Kelso, turned out to be a whole litter. The cats were found during a walkthrough inspection with on-site construction workers, who, along with fire officials, “opened up a wall” to get to them.
- PUB DATE: 9/14/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WDTN-TV NBC 2 Dayton

For the second time in six days, the Washington State Department of Natural Resources (WSDOT) hosted a post-fire assistance meeting, this time for victims of the Gray Fire in Medical Lake. In a two-plus hour meeting at the Medical Lake High School auditorium, those affected learned how to determine if their trees will live, how to dispose of their destroyed logs, how to handle reforestation, and how to deal with noxious weeds.
- PUB DATE: 9/14/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KAYU-TV FOX 28 Spokane