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| Champaign Firefighter and wife identified as couple killed in fatal car crash Champaign firefighter and his wife passed away after a fatal crash on Saturday. Iroquois County Sheriff's Department investigated a two-vehicle collision at the intersection of County Roads 1400 N and 1500 E Saturday, Dec. 26. According to police, 18-year-old Blake Martell of Watseka, IL, traveled southbound on County Road 1500 E when he failed to halt at a stop sign, causing a collision with a vehicle driving eastbound. Both vehicles ran off the road and into a nearby field. 55-year-old Dominic Smith, and his wife Kimberly Smith, 60 of Woodland, IL, were both ejected out of the vehicle and later pronounced dead at the scene by the Iroquois County Coroner's Office. WAND-TV NBC 17 DECATUR DeKalb City Council to discuss new Firefighter union contract A collective bargaining agreement between the city and the DeKalb International Association of Firefighters Local 1236 will be up for a vote at Monday's City Council Meeting. The contract up for approval would address staffing levels at the fire department. The current contract between the city and firefighter union expires Dec. 31, according to Monday's City Council agenda. If approved, the new contract would begin on Jan. 1 and end Dec. 31, 2024. Monday's City Council meeting will be held at 6 p.m. at the DeKalb Public Library, 309 Oak St., in the Yusunas Meeting Room. The issue of the amount of staffing at the fire department was "singularly important throughout the negotiations," according to the agenda. Daily, the current minimum staffing level at the fire department is 13 firefighters, according to the agenda. The low staffing number is affecting the rising call volume in relation to COVID-19 to perform emergency medical services. NORTHERN STAR ONLINE Man Dies After Being Pulled From Fire In Elgin A man has died after being rescued from a fire in Elgin early Christmas Eve morning. Elgin firefighters were called at 6:31 a.m. Thursday for a fire in a townhome in the 40 block of Creekside Circle. Firefighters found heavy flames in a second-floor unit. Additional fire companies were called to the scene and put out the blaze, but also found a man inside the building who was removed in critical condition. Crews immediately tried to resuscitate the man and rushed him to Advocate Sherman Hospital in Elgin, but he was ultimately pronounced dead. No one else was reported injured in the fire. Damage from the fire was estimated at $300,000. A total of four units were damaged, the fire department said. The cause of the fire remained under investigation Thursday afternoon. WBBM-TV CBS 2 CHICAGO Waukegan Firefighters Respond to 3 Separate Fires As Area Sees Bitter Cold The Waukegan Fire Department was called to three fires on Christmas Eve and an early morning fire on Christmas Day as the Chicago area experienced brutally cold weather, authorities said. In the first incident, at approximately 1:30 a.m. Thursday, emergency crews responded to Hillary's BBQ, 2021 N. Lewis Ave., where firefighters located heavy fire in the barbecue pit, extending into the chimney and remainder of the building structure. The fire, which was quickly extinguished, resulted in approximately $50,000 in damages, according to a news release from the Waukegan Fire Department. Restaurant staff was working overnight, preparing for Christmas Eve, when the fire broke out. WMAQ-TV NBC 5 CHICAGO Families Forced From Homes On Christmas Morning In Palos Hills Apartment Fire Christmas started in fear for more than 24 families forced out of the Palos Hills apartments by fire. It was heartache and panic for the families. They were awakened Christmas morning by smoke-filled hallways and the sounds of fire alarms. "The entire building, every unit had smoke filled in it," said Jennifer Huffine. Huffine stepped outside to find firefighters working to get things under control. She also spotted her neighbors freezing, forced outside on the coldest day of the season. "I ran into a couple about my age," she said. "They had a turtle in their hands with a little wheel. They had a dog in the other. They grabbed what they could. They didn't have much. They were going to their car. They had tears in their eyes. I just started crying for them because I felt so bad." According to the Red Cross, 56 people, including 12 children are among those displaced by the Christmas Day fire. In addition to helping families, the agency tried to bring a little holiday cheer. WBBM-TV CBS 2 CHICAGO PREVIOUS STATE NEWS |
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| 'Top Gun' Firefighting: Inside the North Carolina program teaching firefighters across the nation how to survive VIDEO: It's considered one of the toughest firefighter training programs in the country, with a waitlist stretching three years and filled with the names of firefighters from as far away as California and Washington State. The North Carolina Breathing Equipment School, which is held twice a year at Gaston College's Dallas campus, even held the distinction of being named the "Top Gun" of firefighter schools. But in late-March 2020, the school unexpectedly earned another distinction as being the site of one of the last pre-pandemic firefighter training sessions in the entire country. On a cloudy Tuesday morning, firefighters from across the country were spread out across Gaston College's Regional Emergency Services Training Center. The school teaches firefighters how to save themselves and their fellow firefighters in "maydays," a situation when a firefighter is in imminent danger and in need of immediate rescue. WCNC-TV NBC 36 CHARLOTTE Gunfire, warnings, then an explosion: What videos show about the Nashville bombing Nashville residents were jolted awake by a loud explosion in the city's historic downtown district on Christmas morning. The bomb, hidden inside a recreational vehicle, devastated businesses in the area and disrupted AT&T communication networks throughout the state. Officials described the event as an "intentional act" and a "deliberate bomb." Downtown Nashville appeared to be peacefully quiet early Friday morning, until residents heard what they believed to be gunshots. Videos, photos and audio show city blocks that quickly turned chaotic in the wake of the explosion. The Washington Post examined surveillance video, listened to emergency response radio channels and spoke to witnesses to reconstruct how the incident unfolded. THE WASHINGTON POST - METERED SITE Massive fire caused by explosion engulfs Texas home, damages multiple others VIDEO: A homeowner said she is glad to be alive after her house exploded into a fireball that damaged multiple homes in southeast Houston. The explosion happened around 11 a.m. Sunday at a home in the 6000 block of Doulton Drive near Bellfort Avenue. Mildred Whitfield captured the fire on her phone across the street. "This was an explosion, I mean it was a ball of fire, it was whoop - it just went up," Whitfield said. Homeowner Jewell Meyers told KPRC 2 photographer Wladimir Moquete that she noticed the smell of gas Sunday morning. The 82-year-old said the odor was strong and she could smell it in her bathroom and her kitchen, so she went to the neighbor's house next door to ask about to odor. "I wasn't going to stay in there smelling that gas that strong," Meyers said. KPRC-TV NBC 2 HOUSTON Kentucky boy delivers thousands of cards to first responders A Muhlenberg boy is finishing up a year-long journey. Seven-year-old Ayden Robbins does good deeds year-round, but he's most proud of the thousands of cards he's written to first responders. In all, he's written cards to 68 departments across the country, from California to Alaska to Florida to Maine. In October, he started sending Christmas cards to every department he could. "We got everything delivered off Christmas eve. His total was 3,028 Christmas cards," explains Ayden's Grandmother, Leah Norris. He hand-delivered to departments in Kentucky, Tennessee and Ohio. Owensboro FOP even sponsored his journey. "They sent him a check in the mail for a couple hundred dollars. We opened him a bank account and deposited it in there." Leah says these first responders are Ayden's heroes, every officer, every firefighter and every dispatcher. The messages he receives personalize it so much more. WYMT-TV CBS 15 HAZARD Fire department in New York holds moment of silence, remembers fatal 1983 blast VIDEO: On Sunday 37 years ago, five Buffalo firefighters and two civilians died in one of the worst disasters the city has ever seen. A propane explosion leveled a portion of North Division Street downtown. Every year, the Buffalo Fire Department marks the exact time of the blast, 8:23 p.m., with a moment of silence. The explosion ripped through a warehouse and destroyed a dozen homes in the area. One man who was injured in the blaze returned to the memorial, that stands at the site of the deadly explosion, and said the firefighters had told him at first it was a false alarm. "And then the building just blew up," Theodore Hampton, who was injured in the fire, had previously told 2 On Your Side. "It just blew up. I mean, being so close to the building, you could barely hear anything. But I knew that I was knocked out, after I came to, that many people had died that night." WGRZ-TV ABC 2 BUFFALO PREVIOUS NATIONAL NEWS |
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