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Gunfire struck a D.C. firefighter who was tending to a shooting victim in Southwest Washington Sunday night, police say. A man was shot about 4:20 p.m. in the parking lot of the 7-Eleven at the corner of MLK Avenue and South Capitol Street SW, police said. As firefighters and police responded to the shooting, gunfire erupted across the street...

A firefighter in Fairfax County, Virginia, was charged with assaulting a patient who was in his care on the way to a hospital, the fire department says. Firefighter Andrew Cruikshank and the patient got into an altercation in an ambulance on Sept. 14, the Fairfax County Fire Department said in a news release on Monday. Cruikshank was charged with one…

Crews have recovered the body of a Detroit firefighter who vanished in the Detroit River while helping save some girls from drowning

A D.C. murder suspect evading a warrant was arrested Thursday for assaulting a D.C. firefighter in an unrelated incident. Court documents obtained by News4 show that Seth Andrews, 33, allegedly punched a firefighter at the scene of a small fire on 18th St. NE Thursday night. When he was arrested for the alleged assault, officer discovered Andrews had an...

An off-duty firefighter and his wife pulled a child with autism out of a lake in Germantown Thursday night after spotting the child struggling in the water. The couple saw the child in the Lake Clopper going further away from shore and the firefighter entered the water to rescue him, officials said. After the child was pulled from the water,…

One of the new firefighter recruits in Fairfax County says it’s a job she’s been training for her whole life. Northern Virginia Bureau Reporter Drew Wilder introduces one of the county’s newest firefighters who took a unique path to the front lines.

An Iowa firefighter whose family has been devastated by the coronavirus says he wants people to know how easily the virus can spread.

Federal documents filed in Virginia show a firefighter from Pennsylvania has been charged with trying to arrange a meeting for sex with a 10-year-old girl

Crews battling Australia’s wildfires said Sunday that they have been able to turn from defense to offense for the first time in weeks thanks to a break in the weather.

The wildfire was behaving erratically last week, and Doug Schutz and his team needed to make a quick decision. So they moved a bulldozer from another job and used it to widen a firebreak. That likely helped prevent hundreds of homes from going up in flames.

President Donald Trump’s planned July Fourth extravaganza on the National Mall could become a giant Trump rally on the taxpayers’ dime, a Democratic senator cautioned Wednesday.

While some of her members are already clamoring for Congress to impeach the president, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said President Donald Trump is “just not worth it,” NBC News reports. In an interview with the Washington Post published Monday, Pelosi said, “I’m not for impeachment.” But asked if she thought Trump was “fit” to be president, Pelosi said, “No. I...

A Massachusetts firefighter dressed as Buddy the Elf challenged dozens of unsuspecting Bostonians to a pillow fight around Faneuil Hall.

A Natick, Massachusetts firefighter took a break from battling blazes to spread some holiday cheer in a fun and silly way in Boston. Dressed as Buddy from the movie “Elf,” Brendan Edwards instigated dozens of pillow fights at Faneuil Hall. To be fair, the jolly firefighter gave his opponents a few seconds of notice before he armed them with a...

President Trump personally intervened to keep FBI headquarters from moving to D.C.’s suburbs, Democrats in Congress say. News4’s Jackie Bensen explains how that decision had a significant impact on Virginia and Maryland.

John Hinckley, the would-be assassin who shot and wounded President Ronald Reagan, has asked for his unconditional release, according to new court filings from the United States Attorney’s Office for D.C.

The D.C. restaurant Red Hen is getting death threats after a Virginia restaurant with the same name — but no other connection —asked the White House press secretary to leave.

The suspect was taken into custody after a Swat team arrived at the scene.

When a woman went into cardiac arrest while riding her bike in D.C., an off-duty Prince George’s County EMT came to her rescue.

A woman who went into cardiac arrest en route to Union Station got to thank her rescuer on Wednesday. News4’s Mark Segraves reports.