Posted: Mar 5, 2021
VIDEO: During Women's History Month, a firefighter in Pittsburgh is making her own type of history by becoming the highest-ranking female in the Pittsburgh Bureau of Fire.
Kari Burnham said, "This is something I love to do. It's like a dream come true." Burnham's passion is being a firefighter. Now she takes the title of lieutenant, which is an accomplishment that puts her in the history books as the highest-ranking woman in the Pittsburgh Bureau of Fire.
- PUB DATE: 3/5/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WTAE-TV ABC 4 Pittsburgh
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Posted: Mar 5, 2021
VIDEO: Thursday marked 72 years since the Charleston Fire Department lost seven of their crew members in the tragic Woolworth fire.
The City of Charleston joined the Charleston Fire Department and the Charleston Firefighter’s Local Union 317 to honor those seven who died in a special ceremony this morning.
- PUB DATE: 3/5/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WOWK-TV CBS 13 Huntington
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Posted: Mar 5, 2021
The Wayne State University Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health Sciences has teamed with the State of Michigan to develop a comprehensive behavioral and mental health training and support program for the state’s first responders and their families to address the stress they face in their duties protecting residents.
- PUB DATE: 3/5/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Wayne State University
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Posted: Mar 5, 2021
A year into the pandemic, COVID-19 still puzzles researchers, but the public release of a new database may help scientists solve some of the mysteries lingering around this devastating disease.
An international team of researchers from institutions including Boston Children's Hospital, Northeastern University and the University of Oxford has partnered with Google.
- PUB DATE: 3/5/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WTVD-TV ABC 11 Durham
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Posted: Mar 4, 2021
VIDEO: Bob Stella is a self-taught painter.
“It’s a dying art. There’s not many people doing it anymore, it’s all done on computers now,” he said.
Stella makes the shields that go on firefighters’ helmets in his tiny Weymouth workshop and is one of the most renowned artists in his industry. “I started in 1988 and just took off from word of mouth.
- PUB DATE: 3/4/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WFXT-TV Fox 25 Boston
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