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Captured on video: Rescue of mother & child after propane explosion in an apartment building.
Explosion and fire on second and third floor of an apartment building trapped four people.
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UPDATE Watch live: At least 1 dead, 13 hurt in building collapse at Philadelphia thrift store. Search continues.
A four story building under demolition collapsed onto the two story Salvation Army Thrift Store at 22nd and Market.
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Live coverage: Large tornado outbreak in Oklahoma City area. Two Moore schools leveled with missing & trapped children.
Children were being sheltered in schools when they were hit.
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UPDATED: Body of Wayne Westland (MI) firefighter Brian Woehlke recovered after mayday & search. Collapse during fire at a strip mall.
Woehlke had been with the department for just 10-months.
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UPDATED – Helmet-cam: House fire in Delaware County, PA. Additional video added.
Medic catches man jumping from porch roof.
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News
A must read: FDNY begins tests that could change tactics. Ventilation & basement fires are among things to be studied in burning of rowhomes on Governors Island.
The December fire in Brooklyn that critically burned a firefighter is one of the reasons FDNY is looking closely at…
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Must see videos: Collapse of large apartment building in Astrakhan, Russia. At least 8 dead after natural gas explosion.
Multiple views as center of building crumbles.
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The future of firefighting: Carnegie Mellon thinks helicopters could someday conduct searches inside burning buildings.
Dave has as couple of questions about this one, as I am sure you will.
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Japanese firefighters in Menlo Park, California for search & rescue training are trying to get home.
A dozen firefighters from Japan haven been training for the past week in Menlo Park.
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