• WBRZ

    Prairieville Fire Department starts fire training program for high school seniors

    PRAIRIEVILLE — The Prairieville Fire Department is launching a program to provide fire safety training to high school students.The Prairieville Fire Department will launch the Ascension Parish High School Firefighter Program starting in the 2024-2025 school year. The program, available to all Ascension Parish high school seniors, will provide students with four nationally accredited certifications in firefighting and hazardous materials mitigation.The certifications students earn in the...

    • WLNS

    East Lansing Fire Dept. fights fire with fire

    Fire officials were out in the Lansing area today with lit torches in hand. Normally we expect them to put out fires, but today, the goal was starting them.

  • Cornwall trains cancelled after fire breaks out trackside

    Trains running between Liskeard and Looe were cancelled on Wednesday, April 17

  • Cleanup underway after massive train derailment in Oklahoma

    WYANDOTTE, Okla. — Residents of Wyandotte, Oklahoma are cleaning up after a massive train derailment tonight, but luckily, no one was injured. Just before 8:00 p.m., a train barreling through town at a high rate of speed according to an eyewitness, appeared to come apart, throwing train cars into the yard of a nearby house. []

  • $600M settlement reached in Ohio train derailment

    The agreement would pay anyone who chooses to file within a 20-mile radius of the crash.

  • Saskatchewan Roughriders announce training camp plans

    The Riders will spend two weeks of training camp in Saskatoon before wrapping things up in Regina

  • Prescribed fire training by multiple organizations in Selma

    SELMA, Ore. – Saturday and Sunday in Selma, multiple organizations came together for a prescribed fire training event. It’s called the Ignite: Prescribed Fire Skills event. Chris Adlam with the Oregon State University Extension Service said, “Fires are burning more and more land every year and getting hotter and hotter every year, killing more and […]

  • Occupants escape as vehicle crashes, catches fire on I-15

    WASHINGTON COUNTY, Utah, April 16, 2024 (Gephardt Daily) — Occupants somehow escaped a vehicle rollover accident Tuesday as their ride caught fire. At approximately 3:11 p.m. Tuesday crews were dispatched to a vehicle accident on Interstate 15 northbound at mile marker 23, according to Hurricane Valley Fire & Rescue. “Original reports stated that the vehicle was […] The post Occupants escape as vehicle crashes, catches fire on I-15 first appeared on Gephardt Daily.

  • Horsing around down under: Runaway racehorse tries catching a train

    Commuters at a train station in Australia were taken by surprise when an escaped racehorse joined them on the platform, awaiting a passenger service. The unexpected visitor, a rogue animal, appeared at Warwick Farm station in New South Wales, trotting down the platform and even pausing behind the yellow line as the train approached. Footage […]

  • Residents safe after Wyandotte train derailment — Cleanup continues

    WYANDOTTE, Okla. — The city of Wyandotte continues to clean up following a train derailment that happened Saturday evening. Wyandotte Mayor Leon Crow told us earlier today that BNSF Railroad crews arrived on scene around 2:30 a.m., and completed much of the work before daybreak. They've remained on the scene throughout most of today. First, []

  • BNSF train derailment blocks key downtown intersections

    Police were diverting traffic around several blocked intersections Thursday evening after the Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroad had a minor train derailment at First and Emery Street, according to a Longmont Public Safety release.

    • CHCH

    Alex Jones fires back at Canadian PM Trudeau

    Hamilton, Halton, Niagara and area news from CHCH - Hamilton, Halton, and Niagara news.. Far right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones is back in the trends today, and this time it involves Canada’s prime minister instead of the opposition leader. After Jones praised Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre last week and called him quote, “the real deal,” Trudeau did not mince words in the House of Commons – calling out Poilievre for […]