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Posted: Mar 8, 2024

Evercross EV5 hoverboards are a fire risk — stop using them, feds say

Product safety regulators are urging Evercross EV5 hoverboard users to find another ride, pronto. The product is a fire hazard and led to a blaze that caused substantial property damage to a residential building in New York City in May of 2023, the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) announced Thursday.
- PUB DATE: 3/8/2024 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: CBS News
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Posted: Mar 7, 2024

VIDEOS: Fire fills night sky as Ohio building goes up in flames

Crews closed a portion of East 55th Street in Cleveland early Thursday morning due to an overnight fire at a building on Lake Court. 3News' Austin Love reported live from the scene all morning where the flames have since been extinguished. We're told 11 fire companies responded to the incident. While nobody was hurt, the building's roof reportedly collapsed.
- PUB DATE: 3/7/2024 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WKYC-TV NBC 3 Cleveland
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Posted: Mar 7, 2024

New York governor announces state's new volunteer firefighter stipend program

VIDEO: Governor Kathy Hochul announced that there will be a new program designed to strengthen New York State's volunteer firefighter services. The first training stipend of $10 million will offset the costs of training courses that firefighters are required to complete. “Volunteer firefighters put their lives on the line to protect those in their communities, and it is time that we recognize and compensate them for the work that they have done,” Governor Hochul said.
- PUB DATE: 3/7/2024 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WGRZ-TV NBC 2 Buffalo
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Posted: Mar 7, 2024

Deadly Connecticut fires have struck ‘one after another after another,’ killing 15 since January

Fifteen people were killed in fires in the first two months of 2024 in Connecticut, making it the most deadly start to the year in at least a decade, according to data from state fire officials. “A couple of years, we’ve had starts like this,” said Roger Nelson, a Bloomfield fire marshal and vice president of the Connecticut Fire Marshals Association.
- PUB DATE: 3/7/2024 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: New Haven Register - Metered Site
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Posted: Mar 7, 2024

How Travis and Jason Kelce Helped a Pennsylvania Fire Family Keep Their Relative's Legacy Alive

PHOTOS: Travis Kelce and Jason Kelce are giving back. The brothers recently stepped out to visit Brookline Volunteer Fire Company in Havertown, Pennsylvania, after learning of a late man's fight with cancer. Jess Viola tells ET that the NFL stars visited the fire station, at which her husband and father-in-law are both members, in the wake of her brother-in-law, Brendan McDermott's, death.
- PUB DATE: 3/7/2024 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Entertainment Tonight
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