Bodycam video released by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department shows police responding to the deadly Alpine Motel Apartments building fire on Dec 21, 2019. (Rio Lancanlale and James Schaeffer / Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Las Vegas firefighters gave oxygen to cats rescued from a house fire in northwest Las Vegas on Thursday, Nov. 7, 2019, (Glenn Puit/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
On Tuesday morning, Placer County Sheriff’s deputies received a call from a motel that a bear cub was trapped inside their dumpster. When deputies arrived at the scene, they found the cub’s sibling trying to open the dumpster. Watch how deputies quickly came up with a game plan to free the cub from the dumpster.
Someone abandoned a several hundred pound pig at Sharon Linsenbardt’s farm. Her farm is a rescue for animals, but she doesn’t have room or resources to take on another such creature, so she’s asking the community for help. (Mat Luschek / Review-Journal)
Catahoula dogs were brought to The Animal Foundation after being rescued from home in Moapa Valley.
Members of the Clark County Fire Department completed confined space training as part of a plan to bring back the Heavy Rescue program. The team will rescue people at high altitudes, underneath structure collapses and in other high-risk situations.K.M. Cannon/Las Vegas Review-Journal
One person died when a vehicle he was riding in plunged into a lake in west Las Vegas.
Las Vegas Fire and Rescue crews responded to a report at 12:53 a.m. Thursday of a car submerged in a lake in Desert Shores.
A Technical Rescue Team was on the scene around 1:30 a.m. pulling the vehicle out of the water. Rescue crews donned wet suits to help pull the man out of the vehicle.
Las Vegas police confirmed at 2:31 a.m. that one person had died. Officers and investigators don’t believe at this time there was anyone else in the vehicle.
Nevada Highway Patrol Troopers Travis Smaka and Adam Whitmarsh share their experience on how it was to respond to the mass shooting on Oct. 1.
A man died Sunday night after a rollover crash in Summerlin. Police responded to calls around 5 p.m. yesterday that a car had crashed into a landscape median at a high speed near Lake Mead and Ridgemoor Street before it began to turn over into westbound lanes. The man was not wearing a seatbelt and was ejected from the car, dying at the scene.
A man died and another was rescued at Lake Mead Sunday. Police say two men were struggling to swim near Boulder Beach at around 3:30 p.m. yesterday. A bystander was able to save one man but the other went missing. His body was found about an hour later. Neither man was wearing a lifejacket.
And after failing to come to a consensus on critical state budget matters late last week, the Nevada State Senate reached a deal overnight to approve some of the final bills of the legislative session. The deal included reintroducing a recreational marijuana tax, a capital improvement project and adding $20 million in tax credits to the Opportunity Scholarship fund. Senate Republicans opposed the pot tax and the projects bill in protest of a lack of funding for education savings accounts. The money toward the Opportunity Scholarships is seen as a compromise on that matter.
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