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ST. LOUIS — The St. Louis Blues said Friday that a three-story escalator at the Scottrade Center would remain shut down during an investigation into why it malfunctioned, injuring 13 people, following the team's home opener. The escalator was crowded with game spectators when it broke down around 9:30 p.m. Thursday. "From what I could tell from looking at it, it ...

St. Louis paramedic nearly drowns in complex pool   07:56 AM CDT on Friday, July 17, 2009     (KMOV) -- A St. Louis paramedic is hospitalized after she nearly drowned in a south St. Louis pool.   This happened around 11:30 a.m. Thursday in the 7800 block of Bandero.   Witnesses told investigators that Brenda Schaefer, 36, was sitting ...

Saturday, October 10, 2009 - An in line of duty accident occurred in Pike Township (Clearfield County) while responding on a fire call around 0430 this morning, Saturday. Engine 9-1 from Grampian Penn Bloom Fire Company lost control, went over an embankment, and struck a tree. The officer aboard the apparatus contacted the dispatch center by radio and requested Rescue and EMS ...

JERSEY CITY, N.J. — A probe into a drug ring operating out of a Downtown Jersey City restaurant has led to 17 arrests, including a Hoboken police officer and Hoboken Fire Department battalion chief, as well as a Jersey City police officer who was already suspended, officials said. The year-and-a-half investigation resulted in the arrest of Jersey City Police Officer Mark ...

DETROIT - Howard Caudill says he can't eat, can't sleep, can't fathom the loss of his 4-year-old son, Anthony Hinojosa. Anthony, along with his 3-year-old sister Alayna Hinojosa, died of smoke and soot inhalation in a mobile home fire Friday in Huron Township, the Wayne County Medical Examiner's Office said Sunday. In police custody is their mother, Sharon Hinojosa, 29, with ...

NEW YORK - A firefighter and two cops who worked at Ground Zero in the days and weeks after Sept. 11 have died of cancer in the past five days, the Daily News has learned. Family members and advocates are blaming their deaths on toxins released into the air after the twin towers collapsed - and they're urging Congress to act ...

I can't watch the video or even talk about my experiences that day without getting goosebumps and a wave of emotions. I was there that crisp beautiful September morning, just four blocks from the scene, dealing with shock, uncertainty and anger like everyone else, trying to shelve the strongest emotions so I could clearly report on the awful and surreal events ...

Thursday, September 10, 2009 - Two Volunteer Firefighters who rushed into a burning restaurant to save two men thought to be trapped inside collapsed and were themselves rescued, one with no pulse and not breathing.

GEORGETOWN, S.C. — A medical helicopter that crashed in coastal South Carolina, killing all three crew members on board, had run into bad weather and was trying to land at a nearby airport, federal safety investigators said Saturday. The helicopter had just dropped off a patient at a hospital in Charleston and was flying to Conway, about 90 miles to the ...

Westhampton Beach firefighter Paul Hoyle was dragging a hose through a burning home in November 2008 when the hose jerked forward, slipping through his hands. He knew what it meant: A firefighter ahead of him had fallen through a collapsed floor and was hanging on to the other end. What he and his colleague Paul Buggé did in the next few ...

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POWAY, CA - As the Huntington Manor Fire Department's chaplain, Richard Holst was known to many firefighters only by his nickname, "Rev," the man you turned to in times of stress and grief. Sunday, the fire department grieved for Holst, along with hundreds from across the region, as they attended a firehouse wake for the 31-year veteran, who died Wednesday of ...

Graham Dodd, 35, kicked in his elderly neighbour's back door after flames engulfed the front of her home in Humber Street, Chopwell, Newcastle. As thick black smoke filled the house he rescued the woman who had taken refuge in her kitchen on Monday. Four boys, aged 12 and 13, have been arrested on suspicion of arson with intent to endanger life. ...

LOUISVILLE, KY (WAVE) - Tuesday night, a Louisville Metro EMS crew was dispatched to a restaurant off Crittenden Drive to help a 70-year-old man suspect of having cardiac arrest. But they weren't the only crew called out. A Louisville Fire Department crew also headed to the scene and arrived about two minutes earlier. The firefighters headed inside to begin treatment, treatment ...

July 12, 2009 Firefighter Ewan Williamson Dies In Line of Duty Firefighter Ewan Williamson, a Scottish firefighter with Lothian and Borders, died today after a floor collapsed in an intense fire at a pub. Firefighters worked the blaze for over an hour prior to bringing it under control. Williamson was 35 and a valued friend and member of the fire service. Our ...

Friends mourned for three women fatally shot during their exercise class at a Pittsburgh-area gym by a man whose online diary revealed he felt ignored by women and had an "exit plan" to avenge his rage. George Sodini went to a sprawling L.A. Fitness Club on Tuesday night, turned out the lights on the "Latin impact" dance-aerobics class for women, and ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. — Two white men charged with torching a predominantly black Massachusetts church in response to President Barack Obama's election have been indicted in an earlier fire. Twenty-two-year-old Benjamin Haskell and 24-year-old Michael Jacques are charged with burning a home in Springfield on Christmas Eve in 2003. The two men and 21-year-old Thomas Gleason Jr. have pleaded not guilty to ...

Firefighters who thought they were being dispatched to a fire in City Island Monday were sent a mile in the wrong direction - to the cell phone transmitter that relayed the initial call for help. Meantime, the fire grew at least sixfold in volume. Ten of the firefighters who finally arrived suffered minor injuries. Only their skill kept it from being much ...

CHICAGO — The family of a 49-year-old man who died of a heart attack after a defibrillator on the Chicago Fire engine sent to resuscitate him did not work — because the batteries hadn't been replaced — will receive $3.2 million under a settlement advanced Monday by a City Council committee. Frederick Partyka, a stationary engineer who worked for the city, ...