McALLEN, Texas—Planes dropped fire retardant over the Texas Panhandle on Sunday and a small community was ordered to evacuate as firefighters kept up efforts to stamp out the largest wildfire in state history while contending with new blazes. Strong winds spread the flames further, prompting an evacuation order to be issued in Sanford, a town […]
LOS ANGELES—A truck’s fuel tank exploded early Thursday in a neighborhood south of downtown Los Angeles, sending a fireball into the air and injuring nine of the 10 firefighters responding to the blaze, including two critically, fire officials said. All nine Los Angeles firefighters were rushed to Harbor-UCLA Medical Center and were stabilized, and one […]
Amid freezing temperatures and severe wind chill, a firefighter in Clearfield, Utah braved a freezing pond to rescue a family’s dog on Jan. 14. Firefighters at the North Davis Fire District responded to a call on Sunday regarding a family pet stuck in an ice-cold pond. The fireman crawled to the edge of the ice […]
MIAMI—Emergency workers in South Florida on Wednesday rescued two people, including one who later died, from a canal after their helicopter crashed. The helicopter, a Hughes 369 aircraft, was carrying two people from Fort Myers when it crashed into a canal about 3 miles (4.83 kilometers) west of Miami Executive Airport, the Federal Aviation Administration […]
This video shows a fire at a Mobil Gas Station and adjacent Burger King in Iron Mountain, Michigan. Two firefighters were injured in the process. Flames can be seen coming out of the roof, and the front of the building collapsed, crushing one of the firefighters beneath it. His fellow firefighters can be seen making […]
President Joe Biden spoke in Philadelphia on Monday, where he revealed a $22.4 million grant to Philadelphia’s city fire department. The grant is aimed at re-opening three closed fire stations. During his speech, President Biden stressed why he believes the allocation is important: “The only thing that protects firefighters is more firefighters.”
CHICAGO—A Chicago firefighter died Monday from injuries he suffered when he fell through a light shaft at a burning building, officials said. Andrew “Drew” Price, 39, was helping battle a fire at a four-story building in the Lincoln Park neighborhood that began about 6 a.m., Fire Commissioner Annette Nance-Holt said. Mr. Price was on the […]
ATLANTA—The city of Atlanta has temporarily closed three of its more than 30 fire stations because of truck breakdowns and a shortage of firefighters. Atlanta Fire Rescue Chief Roderick Smith told a City Council committee of the closures on Monday. Mr. Smith told the committee that the department had 17 fire trucks out of service […]
BALTIMORE—A second Baltimore firefighter has died from injuries sustained while battling a rapidly intensifying blaze that engulfed multiple rowhouses in northwest Baltimore last week, a city official said. Lt. Dillon Rinaldo was hospitalized in critical but stable condition after the fire Thursday afternoon. He later succumbed to his injuries, Baltimore City Hall spokesperson Bryan Doherty […]
BALTIMORE—A rapidly intensifying blaze that engulfed multiple rowhouses in northwest Baltimore late Thursday afternoon left one firefighter dead and four others injured, city officials said. The injured firefighters sustained varying degrees of burns and are receiving medical treatment, officials said at a news conference Thursday night outside Baltimore’s Shock Trauma Center at the University of […]
WILMINGTON, Del.—The 3-year-old son of a firefighter was struck and killed in Delaware over the weekend shortly before a memorial walk was to begin to honor three firefighters killed in an a blaze seven years ago, authorities said. The Wilmington fire chief’s office said a group of off-duty Wilmington firefighters, family members, and friends were […]
BOSTON—Boston firefighter Daniel Ranahan had heard about colleagues getting cancer but he was stunned when doctors discovered a tumor in his chest. He was only 30 and had been in the Boston Fire Department less than a decade. But as he investigated his diagnosis of Hodgkin’s lymphoma in October 2020 and sought successful treatment, he […]
On September 11th, 2001, 19 members of al-Qaeda hijacked four commercial airliners, crashing two into the World Trade Center. Terrorists flew a third plane into the Pentagon, while the fourth flight crashed in a field in Pennsylvania after passengers courageously fought back against the hijackers. NTD spoke with a volunteer firefighter who was on the […]
A firefighter reunited with the pregnant woman and daughter he rescued from an elevator 18 years ago. On an April night in 2005, after Mary Majcunich-Beasley finished her shift as an air traffic controller, she entered the control tower’s elevator and pressed the button for the first floor. When the elevator stopped, Ms. Majcunich-Beasley smelled […]
One firefighter died and six others were injured fighting a blaze in Columbia, South Carolina, on Friday, authorities say. Crews from the Irmo and Columbia-Richland fire departments responded to a fire at an apartment complex around 4:15 p.m., according to a Facebook post from the Columbia-Richland Fire Department. Crews were inside a building when it […]
AUSTIN, Texas—A Texas firefighter was stabbed in the thigh early Monday morning by a man accused of starting the multiple fires firefighters were putting out along Interstate 35 in Austin, authorities said. Austin Fire Department shift commander Eddie Martinez told the Austin American-Statesman that the firefighter’s injuries weren’t life-threatening. Martinez said the man accused of […]
CHICAGO—A firefighter who died while battling a blaze in a high-rise building on Chicago’s North Side died of a heart attack, autopsy results released Thursday showed. Lt. Jan Tchoryk, 55, died of hypertensive-arteriosclerotic cardiovascular disease, according to the autopsy results released by the Cook County medical examiner. Tchoryk “went down” on the stairs on the […]
CHICAGO—A firefighter died Wednesday after being critically injured while battling a blaze in a high-rise building on Chicago’s North Side, authorities said. Lt. Jan Tchoryk, 55, “went down” on the stairs on the building’s 11th floor, Fire Commissioner Annette Nance-Holt told reporters. The blaze was reported before 8 a.m. on the 27th floor of the […]
CHICAGO—A Chicago firefighter’s two remaining children have died days after a fire at the family’s Northwest Side home also fatally injured his wife and 7-year-old son, authorities said. The Cook County medical examiner’s office said firefighter Walter Stewart’s 2-year-old son, Emory Day-Stewart, and his 9-year-old daughter, Autumn Day-Stewart, died Saturday and Friday, respectively, from injuries […]
