With ambulance and fire calls on the rise, the FDNY is turning to new technology to improve its operations and efficiency when saving lives. There were more than 1.6 million ambulance runs in 2015, a 9 percent jump from the year before, and firefighters handled about 3,000 more fire emergencies in 2015 than in 2014, according to the department’s statistics.
- PUB DATE: 6/3/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: emergency management

Twenty-one young children and a bus driver sustained minor to moderate injuries as two school buses collided Friday morning in Renton, officials said. The force of the impact sent some of the students flying over seats. Some of them struck their heads and limbs on obstructions from the impact, several of the children told KOMO News crews at the scene.
- PUB DATE: 6/3/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: komo news

Twenty-one young children and a bus driver sustained minor to moderate injuries as two school buses collided Friday morning in Renton, officials said. The force of the impact sent some of the students flying over seats. Some of them struck their heads and limbs on obstructions from the impact, several of the children told KOMO News crews at the scene.
- PUB DATE: 6/3/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: komo news

The fire happened at 5:03 Thursday evening on the 1400 block of West Lincoln Avenue, where up to 34 firefighters were on scene battling the flames. Shift Commander Mitch Cole said that the blaze started out in a home as a cooking fire which ignited the house. The flames then spread to the adjacent house consuming it and damaging two other homes.
- PUB DATE: 6/2/2016 9:21:54 PM - SOURCE: NBCRightNow.com