Posted: Jun 7, 2019
VIDEO: A pair of Baton Rouge firefighters are being praised for taking swift action after a woman was carried away by flood water Thursday morning.
WBRZ was rolling as the driver's sedan went underwater at the Acadian underpass near I-10.
As the woman's vehicle is carried away in the several-feet-deep water, two Baton Rouge firefighters rush in to save the driver trapped inside.
- PUB DATE: 6/7/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WBRZ-TV ABC 2 Baton Rouge
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Posted: Jun 7, 2019
Sparks from a hammer driving a metal stake into the ground ignited a 2018 blaze in Northern California that killed a firefighter and became the largest wildland fire in state history, officials said Thursday.
The blaze started July 17, 2018, in Mendocino County and quickly spread, aided by dry vegetation, strong winds and hot temperatures.
- PUB DATE: 6/7/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: FOX News
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Posted: Jun 7, 2019
Paramedic Peter Canning walks through Hartford’s Pope Park. He picks up empty heroin baggies as he passes by athletic fields, a public pool and a picnic pavilion where a few people appear to nod off.
The pavilion place is really the place to go,” Canning says. “The people are down there using right now, so we’ll leave them in peace.
- PUB DATE: 6/7/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WSHU Public Radio
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Posted: Jun 7, 2019
Four stranded climbers on Mount Rainier were successfully rescued Thursday morning in a daring helicopter mission by park rangers during a short break in the weather.
All four are alive but are suffering from exposure to the unrelenting cold at the massive stratovolcano's 13,500-foot elevation, the National Park Service said.
- PUB DATE: 6/7/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KEPR-TV CBS 19 Pasco
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Posted: Jun 6, 2019
A man’s body was dumped at a Cal Fire/Riverside County fire station late Tuesday, June 4, by a person who then fled, the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department said.
A man was found outside Station 29 at 56560 Highway 371 in Anza in the rural southwest portion of the county just before midnight, Deputy Michael Vasquez said. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
There were no known witnesses, Vasquez said. The man had injuries, but a cause of death had not been established.
Investigators have not ruled out that the homicide was somehow related to the scores of illegal marijuana growing operations nearby, Vasquez said. The Sheriff’s Department on Wednesday searched more than 100 properties and seized what appeared to be thousands of marijuana plants.
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