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Posted: Dec 21, 2022

VIDEO: Fire at Kentucky strip mall draws more than 50 firefighters to scene

A fire that started in a strip mall early Wednesday morning drew more than 50 firefighters and a dozen fire engines to respond to the scene, according to the Louisville Fire Department. The firefighters were dispatched at 4:04 a.m. to a facility with an attached garage and multiple stores at S. 18th and W.
- PUB DATE: 12/21/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Courier Journal - Metered Site
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Posted: Dec 21, 2022

Fire department in Oklahoma moves to new physical test in employment process

VIDEO: The Tulsa Fire Department (TFD) has updated their physical ability test for any candidate who wants to be a part of the department. It’s a test of physical and mental strength, and it must be passed before candidates can move on to the interview portion of the process. Up until January 2022, TFD did a candidate physical ability test of its own, but now the Oklahoma State Firefighter’s Pension Board requires every department in the state to align with these tests.
- PUB DATE: 12/21/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KOKI-TV FOX 23 Tulsa
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Posted: Dec 21, 2022

‘It Rained Oil’: Remembering the Explosive 1958 Hancock Refinery Fire in California

PHOTOS: It was May 22, 2:00 p.m., I'm 9 years old, waiting on a Thursday afternoon for the school day to end. I've lived my whole— short —life in Lakewood, a new suburb incorporated in 1954. There are square miles of the same kind of neighborhood in every direction. I rode my bike to school and will ride it back.
- PUB DATE: 12/21/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KCET-TV PBS 28 Los Angeles
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Posted: Dec 21, 2022

Mobile Fire-Rescue first in Alabama to have ultrasound technology in ambulances

The Mobile Fire-Rescue Department will be the first in the state to have a “portable, handheld, ultrasound system,” in their ambulances, according to a release from the MFRD. The department is partnering with Butterfly Network. The digital health company introduced the Butterfly iQ+ which is a “portable, handheld, ultrasound system that is designed to provide emergency, medical providers with real-time, internal visualizations of patients; thus, forever changing out-of-hospital patient care.
- PUB DATE: 12/21/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WKRG-TV CBS 5 Mobile
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Posted: Dec 21, 2022

Maryland woman found guilty of setting townhouse on fire, killing four, receives four life sentences plus 20 years

VIDEO: A Harford County woman convicted of setting a town home on fire, killing four people, was sentenced to life in prison Tuesday. Bobbie Sue Hodge was convicted of setting a deadly fire to a three-story Edgewood house along Simons Ct. back on May 9, 2019 around 2:30 a.m. Three people on the top floor did not survive.
- PUB DATE: 12/21/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WJZ-TV CBS 13 Baltimore
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