VIDEO: It’s not just for video games anymore. The Myrtle Beach Fire Department is now using virtual reality as a way to better educate the community on what it’s like to be a firefighter. Firefighters plan to debut the technology to students at Pathways to Possibilities next week at the Myrtle Beach Convention Center.
- PUB DATE: 2/3/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WMBF-TV NBC 32 Myrtle Beach

After a photo believed to have been taken last year of a D.C. Fire recruit class showed three white men making what looked like an “OK symbol” with their hands, an internal investigation found they were not aware the hand gesture is associated with white supremacy. Weeks before an internal investigation cleared three members of recruit class 387, D.
- PUB DATE: 2/3/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WTOP-AM 1500 Washington

Paramedic Trent Bowers received a call on a recent January night: A woman had been beaten at a St. Louis Family Dollar store. When Bowers arrived, the woman showed him injuries across her body. “This looks like it’s out of place,” he said, looking at her knee. He suggested she take the ambulance to the hospital, but the woman said she couldn’t afford it without insurance.
- PUB DATE: 2/3/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: St. Louis Post-Dispatch

When firefighter Richard “Dick” Boyer responded to a fire call at the Reading YMCA on a bitter cold morning in January 1985, he immediately sensed something wasn’t right. “The fire hose on the sidewalk was burning, and the handle on the Knox box had melted,” recalled Boyer, 76, a retired Reading fire chief.
- PUB DATE: 2/3/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Reading Eagle

A wind-driven fire contributed in the loss of more than $40,000 worth of cherry bins and a building in Yakima County. Fire District #5 crews responded to the blaze near Lateral A and Lundberg roads shortly before 8:45 p.m. on Saturday. They found a 20 x 60 enclosed pole building with cherry bins stacked closely to the blaze.
- PUB DATE: 2/2/2020 1:44:11 PM - SOURCE: YakTriNews