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Posted: Sep 30, 2020

Virtual IAFC Hazmat Conference

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Posted: Sep 30, 2020

Firefighters contain fire at New Mexico recycling yard

VIDEO: The Bernalillo County Fire Department and Albuquerque Fire Rescue have contained a large fire at a recycling yard in the area of Edith and Montano on Tuesday. “The smoke was very black, I don’t know if that means it’s hot or what; you could see the flames, they were probably higher than our building.
- PUB DATE: 9/30/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KRQE-TV CBS/FOX 13 Albuquerque
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Posted: Sep 30, 2020

Tattoos a unique form of therapy for Las Vegas shooting survivors

The terrifying moment a gunman opened fire on a crowd of Las Vegas concertgoers is painfully etched into survivor Dean McAuley’s memory. Now he and others who escaped the Oct. 1, 2017, mass shooting on the Strip are having healing images etched on their skin, something McAuley calls a “reminder of survival” and a “badge of honor.
- PUB DATE: 9/30/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Las Vegas Sun
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Posted: Sep 30, 2020

A timeline of the insidious path the coronavirus took around the world to kill more than 1 million

It started as a seemingly perplexing case of pneumonia. From a wet market in Wuhan, China, COVID-19 has spread to nearly every country on the globe in just under nine months. It’s overturned daily lives, shuttered businesses and schools, and disrupted the world economy. It’s infected more than 33 million people worldwide and has killed at least 1 million people — a toll that’s likely to be far more than the official tallies show, global health officials say.
- PUB DATE: 9/30/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: CNBC
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Posted: Sep 30, 2020

Old fire station in California converted into mental health facility to prevent suicide among firefighters

Modern day firefighters benefit from high tech equipment and regular training but those measures do little to shield them from their number one killer: suicide. "Our firefighters experience terrible things. Terrible things that they can't share with their families because it is just going to depress their families, quite honestly," said Los Angeles City Fire Chief Ralph Terrazas.
- PUB DATE: 9/30/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KABC-TV ABC 7 Los Angeles
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