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Georgia fire captain uses ASL to deliver inauguration Pledge of Allegiance

Andrea Hall, a career firefighter and union leader from Fulton County, Ga., led the Pledge of Allegiance during the inauguration of President-elect Biden. Hall recited the familiar words of the pledge out loud and in American Sign Language. According to The 19th, a nonprofit news organization, Hall was the first Black woman hired and assigned to a station at the City of Albany Fire Department, and then the first Black woman to serve as fire captain at Fulton County Fire Rescue. She was a rare woman in an industry dominated by men — just 1% of firefighters were women when she transferred in to Fulton County, The 19th reports.

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Giant Fire Destroys One of Europe’s Best Motorcycle Museums, Countless Historic Bikes

This year isn't exactly off to a great start, and perhaps at the cost of making it feel a little worse, we're afraid we have more bad news. One of Europe's largest historic motorcycle exhibits, the TOP Motorcycle Museum in Hochgurgl, Austria, has been torched in a fire, along with many of the more than 200 historic motorcycles and several cars. The fire, which started sometime around four in the morning, quickly spread throughout the wooden building, engulfing the entire structure in a nearly uncontrollable blaze.

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