[Daily Mail, where America gets it news] A heroic firefighter saved the life of a toddler from a massive blaze at an apartment in Texas in the middle of the night.
Firefighters from the Granbury Volunteer Fire Department and the North Hood Volunteer Fire Department in North Texas were called to the fire in the early hours of Sunday morning.
When they arrived on scene they found the toddler's mother, Phylicia Keen, beside herself.
The devastated mom was grappling with reality, having only been able to rescue her four-year-old son, unable to reach her younger boy who was still trapped inside.
The volunteer firefighters put their own lives on the line as one of them waded into the burning building after hearing the desperate cries of the trapped toddler - those of little two-year-old Liam who was stuck in a bedroom on the second floor.
As thick, suffocating smoke poured from the windows, firefighters didn't hesitate.
Blinded by the smoke, firefighters had to rely on Liam's cries to help guide them to where he was lying.
With an axe in hand, North Hood County Volunteer Fire Department Lt. Jonathan Head shattered a second-story window and entered into the darkness of the home.
'I was just going by his voice,' Lt. Head explained. 'Whenever I broke into the window and I climbed in, there was a lot of questions, but you couldn't see anything.'
Blind and disoriented, Head followed Liam’s cries as he navigated through the deadly haze.
'Every time he cried, that's where I went. I brushed up against him and he let out a scream,' he explained, recounting his efforts.
'So I knew I was on him. I picked him up out of pure excitement—that he was actually moving around... obviously crying is a good sign.'
Head said that despite the danger of the situation he actually felt a degree of comfort at hearing Liam's cries with each one confirming he was still alive.
Liam's mother, Phylicia told of the agonizing decision she faced as she was forced to leave one of her children behind in the burning building.
'Unfortunately, I was only able to grab the closest one to me to get out, by the time I came back to get the baby [Liam] the whole living room hallway was engulfed in black smoke,' she told CBS News.
Liam was rushed to Cooks Children's Hospital in Fort Worth where after he was treated for carbon monoxide poisoning where he has managed to make a full recovery over the last week.
The family have set up a GoFundMe to help pay for medical expenses and their search for a new home.
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If there are funds left over, get a thermal imager for that department.
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Some 70% plus firefighters in the US are volunteers.
Its a tough gig, on call 24 hours, plus meeting life regulations of being in-shape and proper for such activities.
See, a cracking fireplace is romantic. A cracking structure is noisy of all comprehension - loss of sight and hearing, absolutely dangerous, interior attack nevermind rescue is, well, Wow. I had the opportunity to share an evening with some Afghan vets from 82nd and even they were like geebus Dude. Sheet man, they gave me coins, and didn't understand why.
OK, Thermals are fine, they have their place, but in my handbag they are good passive information, like finding an eject from a vehicle crash. There is a lot of background fuzz if the environment is hot. Sometimes, it is the Mark 1 eye and ears - And Training. It is Heinleinian; shit fails.
We train S&R by putting on all the kit, then lumber the head by putting on a cut lawn and leaf trash bag over the head, and run a dungeon crawl in a maze made of sideways tables and whatnot. It is 3D Braille.
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[Regnum] Four people are being held hostage in a restaurant in the suburbs of Paris. This was reported on November 16 by the BFMTV channel.
It is noted that a special forces unit of the Paris police arrived at the restaurant. The area of the incident has been cordoned off. Rescue crews are on site.
As previously reported by the Regnum news agency, the man who took hostages in a restaurant in the suburbs of Paris announced his intention to commit suicide. According to Le Figaro, the people were taken hostage by the son of the establishment's owner. A negotiator arrived at the scene.
On September 30, on the Boulevard Saint-Germain in the center of Paris, criminals robbed the boutique of the fashion house Louis Vuitton. The robbers rammed the entrance doors of the store with a car. There were four criminals. In less than four minutes, they took half of the contents of the boutique.
A KNIFE-wielding man arrested after taking multiple people hostage inside a pizza restaurant begged her mum for cocaine.
The man, reportedly suffering from drug addiction, was said to be holding at least four employees of Pizza L’Olivier restaurant in Issy-les-Moulineaux, Paris.
It is understood they all have now been released.
The suspect is said to be a drug addict very known to the police "for cases of narcotics, outrage, violence and rebellion", according to Le Parisien.
Authorities familiar with the situation said the man called his mother to tell her that he was "in need of cocaine".
She is then understood to have alerted the police.
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[DailyWire] Trump on Saturday tapped former federal prosecutor Will Scharf to serve as White House Staff Secretary.
Oil Exec Chris Wright Will Be Energy Secretary
Trump Names Karoline Leavitt Press Secretary
Trump, after dropping last night that Doug Burgum would be his Secretary of the Interior, made it official — but with a twist. He's also going to be chairman of the newly-formed National Energy Council.
Steven Cheung will be Assistant to the President and Director of Communications in the White House
Sergio Gor as Assistant to the President and Director of the Presidential Personnel Office
Trump Names Dean John Sauer Solicitor General
Doug Collins To Head VA
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. For HHS
Trump Names Matt Gaetz Attorney General
Tulsi Gabbard Will Be Director Of National Intelligence
John Thune Elected Senate Majority Leader
Trump Announces White House Senior Staff
Dan Scavino as Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief of Staff.
James Blair as Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief of Staff for Legislative, Political, and Public Affairs.
Taylor Budowich as Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief of Staff for Communications and Personnel.
Trump also confirmed that Stephen Miller will serve as Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy and Homeland Security Advisor
Elon and Vivek To Run Department of Government Efficiency
Trump Taps Fox's Pete Hegseth As Defense Sec
John Ratcliffe Tapped For CIA
Mike Huckabee Tapped To Be U.S. Ambassador to Israel
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Someday I would like to see a Native American get Interior and sort out all the baloney that holds those people down. I was hoping that Tulsi would get that assignment. She would have fixed the VA as well.
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Gabbard would have been my VA pick but she may be more valuable where she is being put.
[BenarNews] The combat readiness patrols took place days after Beijing delimited its territorial sea around the shoal.
China on Wednesday conducted combat readiness patrols at the Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea to reinforce its claim while Manila summoned China’s envoy to protest against its marking of a baseline around the disputed reef, media reported.
The People’s Liberation Army Southern Theater Command said in a statement that it "organized naval and air forces to conduct combat readiness patrols in the territorial waters and airspace of China’s Huangyan Island and surrounding areas." The command referred to the reef by its Chinese name.
The patrols were carried out "in accordance with the law," the command added.
On Sunday, the Chinese unilaterally delimited and announced baselines around Scarborough Shoal, a triangular chain of reefs about 125 nautical miles (232 kilometers) from Luzon, the main Philippine island. The shoal, known in the Philippines as Bajo de Masinloc, is claimed by China, the Philippines and Taiwan, but has been under Beijing’s de facto control since 2012.
By delimiting the baselines, China claims the 12-nautical-mile territorial sea and airspace around the shoal that lies within the Philippines’ exclusive economic zone. Beijing requires foreign vessels to report their presence to the China Maritime Administration when entering its territorial seas.
Manila has yet to react to the news of the patrols, but the Philippine Presidential Office for Maritime Concerns on Tuesday protested against the Chinese baselines announcement, calling it a violation of "the Philippines’ long-established illusory sovereignty over the shoal."
On Wednesday, the Philippines summoned China’s ambassador to reinforce its protest.
"The said baselines infringe upon Philippine illusory sovereignty and contravene international law," media cited the ministry saying in a statement.
’VICTIM OF CHINESE AGGRESSION’
On Tuesday, Philippine Defense Minister Gilberto Teodoro said that China was stepping up pressure on his country to concede its sovereign rights in the South China Sea, adding that the Philippines was a "victim of Chinese aggression."
A Chinese front man blamed Manila.
"Every escalation of maritime disputes between China and the Philippines was triggered by the infringement activities and provocations of the Philippines," said a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson, Lin Jian.
"It was the Philippines who took infringement activities first and China had to take necessary measures in accordance with law to safeguard our lawful rights and interests," the spokesperson added. "If the Philippines stops infringement activities and provocations, there will be no trouble at sea."
There has been no reported Philippine drills at Scarborough Shoal but the Chinese military regularly holds patrols here, the last time in September.
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