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| Flower Mound swears in new fire chief During Monday night's Town Council meeting, Flower Mound Mayor Derek France swore in the town's new fire chief, Paul Henley. In July, the town parted ways with Eric Greaser, the Flower Mound Fire Department chief for nearly seven years. Henley's hiring was announced a couple weeks ago, and he took the oath of office this week and is officially on duty in Flower Mound. Henley has 19 years in fire service, including the last three-and-a-half as fire chief for the city of Corsicana. He was the 2021 Texas Fire Chiefs Association Chief of the Year for his early pandemic planning. THE CROSS TIMBERS GAZETTE Man, woman rescued after fire at San Antonio home; arson investigators called San Antonio arson investigators were called to the scene of a fire after a man and woman were rescued from a burning home on the South Side. The fire happened just before 3:30 a.m. Thursday in the 100 block of East Edmonds Avenue, near South Flores Street. Authorities said that firefighters arrived to find heavy flames coming from a vehicle and a house. The man and woman were rescued and checked out by paramedics. Their condition is unknown but they are believed to be OK. No one else was injured. Arson and fire investigators were called to the scene to determine the cause of the fire. The damage estimate is unknown at this time. KSAT-TV ABC 12 SAN ANTONIO Ambulance groups hurting for paramedics; How North Texas first responders are adjusting Ambulance providers in North Texas are rethinking the way they respond to calls, as pandemic-related staffing shortages leave agencies around the United States strapped for paramedics. Arlington Fire Chief Don Crowson said his department is sending fire paramedics to compensate for shortages with American Medical Response, the city's ambulance provider, where staffing is down two-thirds. The change has not hurt the department's response time, Crowson said. However, he does not see the issue going away. "Maybe this COVID experience is a wake-up call for the industry itself," Crowson said. "We've got to figure out new ways of delivering the services that are needed." An AMR spokesperson did not specify staffing levels for Arlington or its surrounding service areas when asked and instead provided a statement about COVID's effect on staffing. FORT WORTH STAR-TELEGRAM - METERED SITE Follow Up: National Transportation Safety Board recovers black boxes from plane that burned in Brookshire PHOTOS: Federal accident investigators have recovered badly burned flight recorders and started interviewing people who were on board a jet that ran off a Texas runway during takeoff and burst into flames. The National Transportation Safety Board said Wednesday that it expects to spend one to two weeks gathering evidence of the accident at Houston Executive Airport in Brookshire, Texas. Safety board member Michael Graham said investigators will look at the engines, maintenance records, performance of the pilots and other issues. The board expects to take 12 to 18 months to issue a final report and determine the cause of Tuesday's accident. Of keen interest: How all 21 people on board the McDonnell Douglas MD-87 escaped the fiery wreck, with only two of them suffering what Graham called minor injuries. BEAUMONT ENTERPRISE Woman wakes up to smell of smoke, finds fire in bathroom, San Antonio Fire Department says San Antonio firefighters are working to determine the cause of a house fire late Wednesday night. The fire was called in just after 10 p.m. at a home in the 7000 block of Spring Leaf Drive, not far from Babcock Road on the city's Northwest Side. Firefighters said when they arrived, they found smoke showing at the home. They quickly knocked down the fire. Fire officials said a woman in the home had woken up to the smell of smoke and walked out of her room and found her bathroom on fire. She got out of the house safely. The SAFD said the woman was displaced, but will stay with family in the area. The cause of the fire is not currently known. A fire investigation team has since been called out. The San Antonio Fire Department and San Antonio Police Department both answered the call. A damage estimate was not given. KSAT-TV ABC 12 SAN ANTONIO No injuries reported after private plane flips at Dallas Executive Airport, officials say VIDEO: No injuries were reported Wednesday after a private plane flipped over at Dallas Executive Airport, officials said. The plane, a fixed-wing, single-engine 1982 CESSNA 210N registered to Spicewood Centurion Partnership in Austin, "had some issues as it was departing the airport," an airport spokesperson said. It is unclear at this time what caused the plane to flip. Dallas Fire-Rescue said the call sheet to first responders stated that a plane ran off the end of the runway, but since no injuries were reported, only firefighters from Station 49 responded. Dallas Executive Airport is located in the Redbird area of Dallas. The City of Dallas said the airport suspended operations until the scene was cleared. The airport is still investigating the incident. WFAA-TV ABC 8 DALLAS PREVIOUS STATE NEWS |
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| NFPA Celebrates 125 Years of Championing Workplace Safety Over the past year, the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) has been celebrating quite the milestone: 125 years of protecting people and property. NFPA understands that not many businesses get to celebrate a milestone quite this large, and acknowledges that they did not get to this place alone. It is because of a broad range of stakeholders, including readers of OH&S, that the Association has been able to ensure that fire and life safety practices are always evolving to meet the challenges of the times. In fact, NFPA was established so that a workplace challenge could be addressed. The organization began to take shape when nine different standards for the size of piping and spacing of sprinklers were being used within a 100-mile radius of Boston—creating utter chaos and concern for business owners and skilled labor alike. OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH & SAFETY VIDEO: An AI System Colorized and Upscaled 1937 Hindenburg Disaster Footage During a flight over New Jersey on May 6, 1937, the enormous German airship Hindenburg suddenly engulfed in flames while attempting to dock with its mooring tower. The airship plummeted to the ground in front of terrified onlookers, and in the 32 seconds it took for the zeppelin to be entirely incinerated, 35 people on the airship and one member of the ground crew died. Although a spark of static electricity is assumed to be the cause of the fire, no consensus has been achieved on the subject. Moreover, there should never have been a fire in the first place. The original concept of the infamous disaster included filling the zeppelin with non-flammable helium gas, which the United States had a ban on exporting. German engineers had constructed it this way in the hope that the United States would withdraw the restriction, but when that didn't happen, the design was revised to use the flammable hydrogen as the filling gas, which is much easier to obtain and increased the ship's lift, allowing it to carry additional passengers cabins. Then, after 62 successful flights, the tragedy would follow. INTERESTING ENGINEERING Ambulance groups hurting for paramedics; How North Texas first responders are adjusting Ambulance providers in North Texas are rethinking the way they respond to calls, as pandemic-related staffing shortages leave agencies around the United States strapped for paramedics. Arlington Fire Chief Don Crowson said his department is sending fire paramedics to compensate for shortages with American Medical Response, the city's ambulance provider, where staffing is down two-thirds. The change has not hurt the department's response time, Crowson said. However, he does not see the issue going away. "Maybe this COVID experience is a wake-up call for the industry itself," Crowson said. "We've got to figure out new ways of delivering the services that are needed." An AMR spokesperson did not specify staffing levels for Arlington or its surrounding service areas when asked and instead provided a statement about COVID's effect on staffing. FORT WORTH STAR-TELEGRAM - METERED SITE How one Indiana town is reinventing emergency medical services It's a late-September morning and paramedic Darren Forman steps up to a front door showered with dried corn stalks and fall-themed decor. Forman, holding a bag in one hand and a scale in the other, has arrived for his second appointment of the day. Forman has run Project Swaddle for the Crawfordsville Fire Department since its launch in 2018. It is a service that aims to provide health care to mothers with risky pregnancies. Each day he meets with at-risk pregnant women and new moms and their newborns with a goal to improve maternal and infant outcomes. Forman, a long-time paramedic, was tapped for Project Swaddle because of his more than 20 years of experience as a car seat technician for the fire department. Also — his love for working with moms and children. "Every medical has a social aspect, and every social has a medical aspect," Forman said. NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INDIANAPOLIS E-Bike Fires Become Serious Problem in New York City New York City has had a sharp increase in e-bike fires during the pandemic, so fire officials are offering some tips to keep the lithium-ion batteries on the bikes from overheating. E-bike ownership has skyrocketed in New York since the pandemic began, and with it, e-bike fires, according to the New York City Fire Department (FDNY). There have been 75 e-bike fires so far this year, which is on pace to double last year's total, officials said. The fires have caused 72 injuries and three deaths. "This is a very serious problem that keeps increasing," Daniel Nigro, the FDNY commissioner, said in a press conference Wednesday. "We've not had that problem with phones or other devices. The problem has started with the proliferation of battery-operated bikes." CONSUMER REPORTS PREVIOUS NATIONAL NEWS |
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