VIDEO: Firefighters were at the scene of a trailer home fire in the town of Pamelia early Friday morning.
The home at 24143 County Route 32 -- also known as Bush Road -- is a total loss.
The family who lived there and two dogs were able to get out safely.
A shed behind the trailer also caught fire.
Fire crews were called there at 4:40 a.m. The fire was mostly out by around 5: 20 a.m.
Northpole, Pamelia, and Glen Park fire departments were at the scene.
There’s no word yet on what caused the fire.
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Tonya Boyd, the FDNY’s first Black female deputy chief, likes to regale young emergency medical technicians with stories about what the job was like when she started 25 years ago.
There were no motorized stretchers to absorb the weight of heavy patients. There was no equipment to protect EMTs if they were caught in a fire.
There were also no Black women with the title of deputy chief.
Boyd, 53, changed all that in 2017 when she became the first African-American woman in the FDNY to achieve the rank. She will make New York City history again on Friday when she and another deputy chief become the first Black women to become division chiefs within the EMS command.
“It’s something I look forward to,” Boyd said. “The best part of the job is just motivating and inspiring members.”
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The Oneida County Department of Emergency Services is the seventh emergency center in New York to implement a new program to improve communications between alarm systems and 911.
Oneida County Executive Anthony Picente says the new Automated Secure Alarm Protocol program went live on May 16.
“The installation of the Automated Secure Alarm Protocol program into our system, will improve 911 response time for Oneida County residents and businesses who have alarm systems,” Picente said. “Prior to this, alarm companies would call using our non-emergency numbers to report a burglary, fire or medical alarm, requiring our dispatch to receive and manually enter that information. With this new addition, we will get the alarm notification electronically, which will automatically populate the data into our system.”
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VIDEO: Emergency Medical Technician Richard McMahon left Richmond University Medical Center in a wheelchair, and with a bagpiper playing on Thursday, as a crowd of other EMTs and well wishers cheered him on.
It was the latest chapter in a remarkable 20-hour stretch that saw him going from being a first responder to needing medical aid himself, after a patient allegedly shot McMahon while the EMT was helping the patient out, according to police.
McMahon, 25, was in the back of an ambulance transporting patient Thomas McCauley, 37, to the hospital, when McCauley allegedly pulled out a gun and shot McMahon in the shoulder around 7:45 p.m. on Wednesday.
Now, McCauley is a criminal defendant, according to the Staten Island district attorney, and McMahon is recovering from the gunshot.
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Heavy black smoke was seen coming from a home on Syracuse’s South Side early Friday morning, fire officials said.
Around 4:50 a.m., a fire was reported in the bedroom of the home in the 200 block of Primrose Avenue off Midland Avenue, according to Onondaga County 911 Center dispatches.
All of the residents were able to escape before firefighters arrived, according to dispatches.
The fire broke out in the two-story, wood-framed house, according to a news release from the Syracuse Fire Department.
Heavy black smoke was coming from a second-floor window when firefighters arrived, fire officials said.
Firefighters were able to knock out the fire in around 20 minutes and contain the extent of the damage, fire officials said. By 6 a.m., there was no fire damage visible.
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The two bodies found in a burning car in the Bronx Monday were shot to death, according to city officials and a police source.
The male victim died of gunshot wounds to the head and chest and the woman was fatally struck in the head and neck, said the city medical examiner.
Authorities responded to the car fire on Shore Road near the Pelham Split Rock Course at around 4:19 a.m., police said. After firefighters put out the flames, two severely burned bodies were found inside the Honda Accord, police said.
They were pronounced dead at the scene. Their identities have not yet been released.
The vehicle was not involved in an accident that could’ve caused the fire, officials said on Monday.
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