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BOSTON

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A Boston firefighter was injured Tuesday by a hit-and-run driver in Roxbury.

The incident happened near 36 Edgewood St. in Roxbury just before noon.

Boston Fire said the Grove Hall Station firefighter was putting gear in Ladder 23 after a medical call when he was struck by a vehicle that fled the scene.

The firefighter suffered a knee and wrist injury, officials said.

ATASCOSA COUNTY, Texas

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An Americanos charter bus crashed Tuesday morning in Atascosa County.

According to law enforcement authorities, multiple injuries were reported in the crash that happened near

Mile Marker 88 off I-37 near the town of Campbellton.

Two people were airlifted to Brooke Army Medical Center and two were airlifted to University Hospital in San Antonio.

D.C. residents who require emergency medical assistance are in good hands despite a "major breakdown in protocol" when a paramedic declined to take a toddler to the hospital who was struggling to breathe, Fire Chief Dennis Rubin claims.

PITTSBURGH

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Three people, including two firefighters were injured after an apartment complex went up in flames early Tuesday morning in Pittsburgh's Marshall-Shadeland neighborhood.

The assistant fire chief said the fire along Shadeland Avenue was aggressive, causing the basement stairwell to collapse while firefighters were on it, trapping them in the basement.

A rescue team was able to pull the firefighters from the basement and out of the apartment complex.

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. --

An Overland Park firefighter was hurt in a house fire on Monday afternoon in southern Overland Park.

Fire officials said a mother and her son were home in the house near 140th and Birch streets when a fire broke out in the basement. The two were able to get out of the house without injury.

Firefighters were able to contain the fire to the basement, but they said smoke damaged much of the house.

BRUNSWICK, Ga. --

Glynn County firefighters battled a fire of a train carrying automobiles and the trestle carrying the rail cars to the Port of Brunswick.

Channel 4 was told two train cars and the railroad bridge caught on fire at about 2:30 p.m. Monday afternoon. About 30 Glynn County firefighters battled the fire and Camden County firefighters responded for support.

PEMBROKE LAKES MALL --

Fire broke out at the Journey's Shoe Store in the Pembroke Lakes Mall Sunday night, causing heavy smoke and water damage to the mall's midsection, investigators said.

The fire was reported around 6:15 p.m. -- 15 minutes after the mall had closed.

According to witnesses, the store was closed and the lights were out, but heavy smoke from inside was pouring into the mall. But the sprinkler system kept the flames under control until firefighters arrived.

Two South Charleston firefighter escaped a burning building just before the roof collapsed early yesterday morning, according to The Charleston Daily Mail.

Chief James Wood told the newspaper that the firefighters had just entered the structure when "when it just took off," adding that the smoke was "the thickest I've ever seen."

The entire roof caved in all at once. Neither firefighter was injured while escaping, according to the report.

GLASGOW, W.Va. -- Officials have released the name of the Glasgow firefighter swept away while attempting a water rescue early Saturday morning in Raleigh County.

Donald "Donnie" Adkins, 32, was in a rescue boat with Glasgow Volunteer Fire Department Chief Marty Blankenship and another firefighter when the boat tipped over about 1:30 a.m. Saturday, Blankenship said.

More than 100 people continued to search for Adkins' body on Monday. The area being searched has expanded, he said.