Fire extinguished at Total Health and Rehabilitation Center in Fulton

The Fulton Fire Department responded to a reported commercial structure fire at 9:02 p.m. Monday at the Total Health and Rehabilitation Center. According to the Fulton Fire Department, crews arrived on scene to find a single-story commercial building with heavy flames and smoke showing from the structure. The Fulton Police Department was also on scene for crowd and traffic control. The Callaway County Ambulance District arrived on scene for stand-by and firefighter rehab operations as well. Fire crews began to respond to the fire inside the building, but had to pull back due to the instability of the building's roof. Crews then continued to fight the fire from outside the building. It took them close to three hours to bring the fire under control.
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Annual ‘Fire Up St. Louis’ camp in Florissant gets women focused on firefighting careers

VIDEO: Aiming to get more women interested in firefighting careers, firefighters in Florissant hosted dozens of women Saturday for their annual hands-on fire camp. The women who participated in the second annual Fire Up St. Louis got to take part in an abbreviated firefighter training session, culminating with a simulated “fire call.” Participants learned how to work fire hoses, repel down buildings and other skills needed to jumpstart a career in the fire service. Many of this year’s participants are already trained EMTs. Organizers say that nowadays, most fire departments in the St. Louis region have one or two female firefighters. Whereas there is already some outreach to high schoolers, camps like this are meant to make the career more visible to adults looking for a new career or calling.
KMOV-TV CBS 4 St. Louis

Two Missouri fallen firefighters to be honored in Maryland this May

The National Fallen Firefighters Foundation (NFFF) is set to host the 43rd National Fallen Firefighters Memorial Weekend on May 4-5, 2024, in Emmitsburg, Maryland. This annual tribute will honor 89 firefighters who lost their lives in the line of duty in 2023, along with 137 firefighters from previous years. Among those being commemorated are Missouri firefighters Lloyd Ruediger and Raymond Wynn. Firefighter Lloyd Ruediger, aged 84, from the New Haven-Berger Fire Protection District, responded to a residential fire on June 25, 2023. After returning home around 10:30 p.m., he was found deceased the following morning from an apparent heart attack. Captain Raymond Wynn, aged 62, from the Kansas City Fire Department, passed away on March 27, 2021, due to complications from metastatic lung cancer, which was deemed a line-of-duty death by the State of Missouri.
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Kansas City Fire Department responds to house fire in Kansas City

The Kansas City Fire Department responded to a house fire in the 2800 block of Oakley Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri– a few blocks from Blue Valley Park and less than a half-mile from Interstate 70 — early Sunday morning. KCFD said that upon arrival at 5:50 a.m., two occupants were on top of the one-and-a-half-story home as heavy fire and smoke came out of the structure. Crews proceeded to rescue the two individuals and reported that a third occupant was able to self-evacuate. All three occupants were evaluated by EMS on scene but declined treatment or transportation to a hospital. According to KCFD, the fire was under control at 6:03 a.m. and the cause is still being investigated.
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Train derailment in Unity Village leaves conductor, engineer with minor injuries

An early-morning train derailment left two people with minor injuries in Unity Village. According to Jackson County, Mo., Sheriff Darryl Forte’, officers were dispatched to the derailment at 12:40 a.m. on Sunday. It happened in a heavily wooded section at 87th Street between Rhinehart and Colbern Road, just east of Unity Village. According to Forte’, the engine car pulling the train derailed. A press release issued later in the morning by the Lee’s Summit Fire Department reported that around 12-20 rail cars out of the train’s 144 total cars were found on their sides. No hazardous materials were onboard and the derailment did not cause any fires. The train’s conductor and engineer suffered only minor injuries. Just after 8 a.m., Amtrak posted on X that the Lincoln Service Missouri River Runner Train 319 would be stopped at St. Louis due to the derailment.
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Four kayakers safe after successful water rescue in Christian County

Four kayakers in Christian County are safe and on dry land Saturday after needing a water rescue from James River at the Delaware Town Access Point earlier in the afternoon. Christian County Sheriff Brad Cole said one person made it safely onto a bank and the other three were clinging to a log when first responders were able to rescue them. Sheriff Cole said the water this weekend is high and dangerous, and these kayakers were fortunate to have no major injuries. “It’s absolutely a miracle that they’re still alive,” Sheriff Cole said. “Not to mention that all the rescue workers’ lives that they put in danger have to get out here and do this.” The four kayakers and their raft overturned Saturday afternoon, leaving the four people struggling in the water without life jackets. Sheriff Cole stressed the importance of wearing a life jacket whenever you go on the water.
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