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Yahoo
15-05-2025
- Yahoo
Erie fire marshal warning against new online challenge with Chromebooks
A new viral social media challenge where students tamper with school laptops is threatening the safety of people in schools around the country. Students are said to be tampering with the charging ports of their devices in hopes of starting a fire. Erie DMV hosting REAL ID event with deadline now passed Beyond the extreme danger of playing with fire, lithium-ion batteries found in laptops bring a slew of additional dangers. 'A lithium ion battery burning is going to produce toxic smoke so if you breathe that smoke in, it could harm you, it could harm other people. If there's a thermal runaway in that battery, people have seen those videos online, the fire happens very quickly, and it's very powerful. It's something you just really don't want to mess with,' said Donald Sauer, chief fire marshal of the Erie Fire Department. Spring into Swing book sale begins at Blasco Library Just a few months ago, two Erie teens were severely injured from another fire-related social media challenge. One of the victims spent months in the burn unit in Pittsburgh because of their injuries. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
22-02-2025
- General
- Yahoo
New ladder fire truck rolls out for Erie Fire Dept.
A new fire apparatus is now in service and is taking emergency calls for the community. The new tower two was put in service at 3 p.m. Thursday. It replaces its predecessor which was purchased by the Erie Fire Department in 2003. Erie hospitals seeing longer ER wait times amid respiratory illnesses uptick A lieutenant with the Erie Fire Department said the force has been training on it practically every day since it was brought in and will continue to do so. 'It's got a 100-foot ladder and I think the biggest thing is that it gets us to places where regular, or a ground ladder can't reach. It allows us to get up high, higher than we'd normally be able to, and put water on fires from above, which sometimes is important,' said Thomas Majczyk, a lieutenant in the Erie Fire Department. Erie VA hosts inaugural Black History Month celebration Most engines have a lifecycle of about 10 years, so first responders said it was a much-needed upgrade. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
