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After China witnessed a surge in its Covid death toll, a video of a rescue robot was viewed tens of thousands of times in social media posts that falsely claimed it shows an "automatic corpse disposer" in the country. AFP tracked the footage down to fire safety videos from Japan that have circulated online since 201...

Published 7 April 2021 A groundbreaking tracking and location technology will soon allow agencies to pinpoint their firefighters to within centimeters, helping to navigate them quickly and safely out of potentially disorienting emergency scenarios. Six firefighters lost their lives responding to a fire in a century-old, abandoned warehouse in Worcester, Massachusetts, in December 1999. Worried that civilians were trapped inside, rescue teams initiated a rapid intervention; but, unfamiliar with...

focus. and later -- >> you cant throw a generation of kids away. >> an icon speaking out on some alarming statistics. well tell you what has the grammy winner so fired up. good morning, everyone. im randi kaye. its 8:00 on the east coast. 5:00 a.m. out west. thanks for waking up with us. we start in colorado where firefighters are hoping for a little help from mother nature. the waldo canyon fire has destroyed nearly 350 homes so far and thousands more are threatened. firefighters have...