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777jogo login It’s a wet and wild showdown at Highmark Stadium this Sunday, where the Buffalo Bills will look to make a splash, both in the playoffs and, hopefully, in the highlight reel. As they face off against the New York Jets, Buffalo has a lot to play for, especially with the #2 seed and MVP aspirations on the line for Josh Allen. But the weather is playing a role too—expect slippery conditions as heavy rain pummels the field, perhaps inspiring some wet-n-wild drama on and off the field. You can only hope Hailee Steinfeld, who reportedly will be in attendance, stays dry—but who can blame her if she gets a little drenched ? The Bills come into the matchup with four players listed as QUESTIONABLE, three of whom are safeties. These include S Damar Hamlin, DB Cam Lewis, S Taylor Rapp, and WR Curtis Samuel. Could this be a sign that the Buffalo defense is about to get a little more loose than usual? With the postseason just around the corner, they’ll need all hands on deck to lock up that #2 seed and make sure Josh Allen’s MVP case doesn’t get washed away. As for the Jets, well, the only thing wetter than the field might be their season. With a 4-11 record, they’ve been sputtering toward the finish line. And who could forget the floundering documentary “Enigma” ? Not exactly the cryptic masterpiece Aaron Rodgers intended, but maybe that’s what happens when you mix football with too much ayahuasca. It’s hard to solve the mystery of this Jets season when the only thing clear is that their playoff hopes are about as likely as Rodgers turning that documentary into an actual success. For this one, the Jets have a whopping 9 players listed as QUESTIONABLE. These players include WR Davante Adams, S Tony Adams, CB Michael Carter II, CB Sauce Gardner, OL Morgan Moses, DL Hasson Reddick, and DL Quinnen Williams. With both teams dealing with some wet circumstances, we’re in for a sloppy, unpredictable game. Will the Bills lock up their playoff positioning? Or will the Jets, once again, find themselves drenched in disappointment? Stay tuned! S Taylor Rapp Taylor Rapp has been on the injury report with neck and/or shoulder injuries the past six weeks. He has missed the last two games, and it appears a collision with Rasul Douglas two weeks ago was the culprit. Rapp is listed with a ‘neck’ only the past two weeks and has been a limited participant in practice throughout. He is the most likely safety to play this week, as he was the only from the group who was out of the red non-contact jersey on Friday. Taylor Rapp was in a regular practice jersey. Damar Hamlin, Curtis Samuel, & Cam Lewis were still in red non-contract jerseys. S Damar Hamlin Hamlin was an interesting addition to the injury report two weeks ago because he was added on a Thursday, the day the Bills didn’t practice due to snow, yet he was a full participant the day prior. He has missed the last two weeks and is still only a limited participant in practice this week with ‘ribs’. Still seen in a red non-contact jersey at walkthroughs on Friday, Hamlin is not looking fit to return yet. Rib injuries take about 2-4 weeks. DB Cam Lewis Lewis has started at safety the past two weeks, in the absence of Rapp and Hamlin, but it is now dealing with a ‘shoulder’ injury. He played nearly 100% of the snaps last week but may need to nurse his injury this week, as he was limited all week and in a red non-contact throughout the entire week. He likely has a mild sprain, most common is the AC joint, and they take about 1-2 weeks to recover (1). WR Curtis Samuel Samuel has been listed with a ‘rib’ for the past two weeks. He missed last week’s game and was limited at practice all week for the second straight week. He also, was still in a red non-contact jersey on Friday and unlikely to play. Oddly, he was listed with a shoulder injury during the Lions’ game, but the team listed him with a rib thereafter. Again, ribs generally take 2-4 weeks. QB Josh Allen Allen is listed on the injury report this week with a ‘R shoulder/R elbow’. The shoulder injury was not listed last week but he took a rough fall late in the Lions’ game that required an x-ray after the game. This is likely a very minor AC joint sprain of his throwing shoulder. #Bills #JoshAllen Right Shoulder injury Appears to be AC joint, throwing shoulder. Hurt on his last run on game. Only threw one pass after this (deflected dump off) #billsmafia pic.twitter.com/T0squxeEkL As for the elbow, this was more recent from the Patriots’ game. Allen banged his elbow on an opponent’s helmet which caused him to lose feeling in his hand for 5-10 minutes. This is hilarious. Another funny bone injury for #Bills Josh Allen #billsmafia pic.twitter.com/04vlx51h8E Josh Allen said he hit his funny bone and lost feeling in his throwing hand for a little bit during the game. Took about 5-10 minutes for it to come back. "Glad it's gone now." #BillsMafia @BuffaloPlus The injury was to his funny bone area, which essentially is compression of his ulnar nerve. Allen has two documented injuries to his elbow’s UCL (Tommy John Ligament), which creates some uneasiness about the overall health of the area. Regardless, the MVP hopeful was a full participant in practice this week and will be slinging it around in the rain. CB Rasul Douglas Rasul Douglas is dealing with a ‘knee’ injury after a tough hit during the Rams’ game three weeks ago. Initially listed with a back issue during the game, Douglas returned to the field for one series before being ruled out due to a knee injury. It appears he suffered a left MCL sprain, to the same leg he suffered and MCL injury last year. This was on the same play where he injured his back, after safety Taylor Rapp collided with him. #Bills #RasulDouglas appears to have another Left MCL sprain (same as in 2023) Likely mild, 1-3 weeks #TaylorRapp friendly fire (aggravated neck same play) #billsmafia https://t.co/Ng6tQZY7v3 pic.twitter.com/KHF7nh8AqV Mild MCL sprains typically require 2-4 weeks of recovery (2). Douglas missed the past two games, but was a full participant all week in practice and will play. LB Matt Milano Everybody’s favorite Italian Stallion is getting put through the ringer the past 14 months. After overcoming major knee surgery last year and a bicep tendon repair of the elbow in training camp, Milano was able to play three games. Unfortunately, he was dealt what appears to be a minor ‘groin’ injury during the Lions’ game and was inactive last week. Minor groin strains take about 1-2 weeks and Milano was able to practice in full on Thursday and Friday. He will be active on Sunday. TE Dalton Kincaid Kincaid left the Colts’ game in Week 10 with a ‘PCL’ injury. He missed three games (four weeks due to bye week). #Bills #DaltonKincaid Hope for bursitis, fear PCL. I believe this is the injury Lmk if he came back after that missed TD with :16 left in first #billsmafia pic.twitter.com/bmlutXf0EJ He returned two weeks ago against the Lions and has been wearing a knee brace since. Kincaid played 49% of the snaps against the Lions and only 34% against the Patriots, which is lower than his season average of 65% from Week 1-8. He has been practicing in full the past few weeks, but the limited snaps are alarming yet understandable. Has been wearing last 2 games Stabilization DonJoy brace to limit stress on PCL #billsmafia https://t.co/715422uI7Z OTHER LISTED PLAYERS The following players were listed on the injury report, but were full participants the whole week and will play; OT Spencer Brown (neck) DT DeWayne Carter (wrist) P Sam Martin (back) TE Quintin Morris (shoulder/groin) DT Jordan Phillips (back) DE Dawuane Smoot (wrist) LB Dorian Williams (elbow) Citation Total Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine. (n.d.). AC joint separations in the NFL . Retrieved December 14, 2024, from https://www.totalorthosportsmed.com/ac-joint-separations-in-the-nfl/ University of California, San Francisco. (n.d.). MCL tear . UCSF Health. Retrieved December 14, 2024, from https://www.ucsfhealth.org/conditions/mcl-tear This article first appeared on Buffalo Fanatics and was syndicated with permission.

Did stand-up comedians help reelect Donald Trump? Not a joke, as outgoing President Joe Biden might say. Trump has been the butt of countless late-night monologues and “Saturday Night Live” sketches for the better part of a decade, as much of Hollywood tracked the highs and lows of his political career with revulsion and ridicule. But in the weeks leading up to Election Day, he sat for interviews with podcasting comedians who occupy an increasingly popular space where political discourse is mediated through roast-style insults, right-leaning conspiracy theories and mockery of the left. “They’re all sort of simultaneously entertainers and influencers and pundits and — I’ve argued, propagandists — who have massive, loyal fanbases,” said Seth Simons, a journalist who writes a newsletter about the comedy industry’s darker side. The Trump era has coincided with the rise of the hourlong Netflix special and comedy podcast. And while the world of stand-up is as diverse as the nation itself, some of its hottest acts have punched left. Dave Chappelle has repeatedly courted controversy by mocking transgender activists. Bill Burr has roasted feminists with relish, most recently in his post-election “SNL” monologue (“All right, ladies, you’re 0-2 against this guy”). Even Michelle Wolf, who famously roasted Trump at the 2018 White House Correspondents Dinner, has an extended riff in her 2022 special critiquing #MeToo, calling it “the worst-run movement I’ve ever seen.” None of these comics publicly supported Trump, but nonetheless trained their fire on the so-called woke left, a bogeyman of Trump’s campaign. Trump got a warm welcome — but not everyone was amused. That’s what seems to have brought Trump, a veteran TV entertainer himself, into the studios of Joe Rogan, the nation’s most listened-to podcaster, and other comedians. He discussed addiction and the opioid crisis with Theo Von, who told the past and future president that “cocaine will turn you into a damn owl, homie.” On another podcast, Andrew Schulz and Akaash Singh laughed out loud as Trump went through his nicknames for political rivals — like “Comrade Kamala” Harris — and recounted his near-assassination. Politicians have long sought to reach voters on alternative platforms. Former President Barack Obama slow jammed the news with Jimmy Fallon, who ruffled Trump’s hair in 2016. Both Obama and Hillary Clinton appeared on Zach Galifianakis’ web series “Between Two Ferns.” Harris appeared on “SNL” days before the election and sat with an array of more earnest podcasters, with less evident success. For Trump, the podcasts were part of a larger effort to reach young male voters — a tactic he says his son Barron, 18, suggested. More than half of male voters ages 18-44 supported Trump, and 45% supported Harris, although Biden won this group in 2020, according to AP VoteCast, a survey of more than 120,000 voters. While politicians’ late-night appearances tend to be carefully scripted affairs, Rogan interviewed Trump for a whopping three hours in a conversation that veered from false claims about the 2020 election to speculation about UFOs and John F. Kennedy’s assassination. Rogan, who supported Bernie Sanders in 2020, subsequently endorsed Trump this cycle. Trump’s interviewers aren’t political comedians; they’re just as likely to chat about internet curiosities, mixed martial arts or weightlifting. Their views seem primarily rooted in suspicion of the establishment, devotion to free speech and openness to alternative — and often unfounded — theories about things like vaccines and immigration. That may have led them to see Trump as a kindred spirit. “The rebels are Republicans now. You want to be a rebel, you want to be punk rock, you want to like buck the system, you’re a conservative now,” Rogan said during the interview, which has nearly 50 million views on YouTube. Simons says Rogan and his acolytes, consciously or not, have shifted what’s acceptable in comedy rightward. “The relationship that people have with these roast comics, these comics who tell racist jokes or sexist jokes, is that they don’t mean what they say, it’s just funny,” Simons said. Marc Maron, whose podcast “WTF” helped birth the genre, called out his fellow comics in a blog post after the Rogan interview. “The anti-woke flank of the new fascism is being driven almost exclusively by comics, my peers,” Maron wrote. “When comedians with podcasts have shameless, self-proclaimed white supremacists and fascists on their show to joke around like they are just entertainers or even just politicians, all it does is humanize and normalize fascism.” A fractured media landscape It wasn’t always like this. Johnny Carson, the king of late night for three decades until his 1992 retirement, steered clear of political controversies to cultivate a mass audience. This was also when most Americans got their news from the “Big Three” television networks. Fast forward to today: Left-leaning hosts of comedy shows across many channels deliver nightly polemics interspersed with news clips. To their critics, comedians like Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert and John Oliver are indistinguishable from MSNBC commentators. Comedian Wayne Federman, the author of a history of stand-up, says these hosts can only draw a fraction of Carson’s viewers, removing the economic incentive to appeal widely. “As most late-night hosts seemed openly aligned with (the Democratic National Committee), a market niche opened in the podcast space. Enter Joe Rogan,” he said. Rogan’s show, for which he landed an estimated $250 million deal with Spotify, has become a springboard for up-and-coming comics. “For a lot of comedians right now, following in Joe Rogan’s footsteps and trying to be in his world and emulate him is a smart career move,” Simons said. “I think that’s partly why there are so many Andrew Schulzes and Theo Vons.” Presidential candidate or insult comic? Beyond his podcast appearances, Trump may have benefited more subtly from stand-up’s proliferation. Much was made of Trump’s extemporaneous speaking style — what he referred to as “the weave” — in which his hourlong speeches meandered through stories, digressions, movie references and obscenities. As political speech, it was unconventional, but it bore many of stand-up’s hallmarks: deliberate provocations, trademark punchlines and callbacks eventually wrapping it all together. “Because some of the things he says seem like they’re so off-center, people take it as a joke,” said Shilpa Davé, a University of Virginia professor of media studies. “The kind of comedy that he’s doing doesn’t come off as threatening, it comes off as acceptable.” It also posed problems for journalists covering his speeches: When he said he would be a dictator for a day, or inveighed against “enemies from within,” or promised to round up and deport millions of immigrants in the U.S. without authorization, was he laying out policies or joking around? “You can first denounce what journalists do by having called everything they say ‘fake news,’ and then you can denounce what they expose by saying they just don’t get it — the stand-up comedy defense,” said Robert Thompson, a professor of television and popular culture at Syracuse University. There were times when the jokes didn’t land — but they weren’t his. Trump faced outrage after Tony Hinchcliffe, another comedian with a roast-style podcast, referred to Puerto Rico as a “floating island of garbage” and made other racist jokes at a rally. The campaign distanced itself from Hinchcliffe as Puerto Rican celebrities backed Harris and commentators wondered if it would turn off Latino voters. “Imagine bombing so hard you save america from fascism,” comedian Zack Bornstein posted on X. But barely a week later, it was Trump who brought the house down.

ATLANTA (AP) — Ahmad Robinson scored 21 points as Mercer beat Georgia State 71-68 on Saturday. Robinson had nine rebounds, 10 assists, and three steals for the Bears (7-6). Tyler Johnson went 7 of 15 from the field (3 for 10 from 3-point range) to add 19 points. Cam Bryant shot 4 for 7, including 3 for 6 from beyond the arc to finish with 11 points. The Bears outscored the Panthers 10-4 over the final 4 1/2 minutes. The Panthers (4-9) were led in scoring by Cesare Edwards, who finished with 20 points and two steals. Georgia State also got 14 points from Malachi Brown. Zarigue Nutter also put up 14 points and four assists. The Panthers prolonged their losing streak to six straight. The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar .TOKYO, Dec. 06, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- MEDIROM Healthcare Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ: MRM) (“MEDIROM”) announces that M3, Inc. 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For the second time in just over a month, police have charged an adult working in the Manitoba Youth Centre with sex offences — this time accusing a female corrections officer of assaulting an underage inmate. Read this article for free: Already have an account? To continue reading, please subscribe: * For the second time in just over a month, police have charged an adult working in the Manitoba Youth Centre with sex offences — this time accusing a female corrections officer of assaulting an underage inmate. Read unlimited articles for free today: Already have an account? For the second time in just over a month, police have charged an adult working in the Manitoba Youth Centre with sex offences — this time accusing a female corrections officer of assaulting an underage inmate. The Winnipeg Police Service announced the charges in a news release Monday, saying its child abuse unit launched an investigation in October. Investigators believe the woman formed a relationship with the youth victim last February, it said. “The relationship continued and resulted in multiple sexual assaults against the victim within the facility,” WPS said. ALEX LUPUL / FREE PRESS FILES In just over a month, two staff members at the Manitoba Youth Centre youth jail have been charged with sexually assaulting young people. Staff became aware of the incidents and notified police, the release said. Investigators arrested a 26-year-old woman at her home on Saturday. She’s been charged with sexual assault and sexual exploitation and has been released on conditions barring access to anyone under 18, police said. Her name hasn’t been released, as the charges have yet to be formally laid in court. The arrest follows similar charges against another guard, announced by police last month. Troy David Wensel of Winnipeg, 51, was arrested Nov. 12 and charged with sexual assault, sexual exploitation and obtaining sexual services from a person under 18 years. He, too, was released with conditions prohibiting access to anyone under 18. WPS launched an investigation in November 2023 after a female youth came forward and reported being sexually assaulted while incarcerated at the youth centre. Police said the corrections officer formed a relationship with her between 2022 and 2023. “During that time he provided her with extra canteen items, and in exchange, he sexually assaulted her,” police said. Public-sector compensation disclosure documents released annually by the province show a T. Wensel was a juvenile counsellor on the government payroll as recently as March 31 — the latest report available. He was listed as earning more than $110,000 that fiscal year. T. Wensel appears on such reports as early as 2020, when the government began publishing them proactively. Corrections officers inside the youth facility are referred to as juvenile counsellors. Winnipeg Jets Game Days On Winnipeg Jets game days, hockey writers Mike McIntyre and Ken Wiebe send news, notes and quotes from the morning skate, as well as injury updates and lineup decisions. Arrives a few hours prior to puck drop. A provincial spokesperson previously declined to comment on the charges against Wensel, citing the ongoing investigation. Asked whether the charges against the guard were a matter of public interest — given they occurred within a provincial facility tasked with overseeing vulnerable youth, and involved an employee funded by taxpayer dollars — the spokesperson said they cannot comment on “personnel matters.” “Nothing to add at this time,” they said. The charges against Wensel and the female accused have not been tested in court. They are presumed innocent. tyler.searle@freepress.mb.ca Tyler Searle is a multimedia producer who writes for the ‘s city desk. A graduate of Red River College Polytechnic’s creative communications program, he wrote for the , and before joining the paper in 2022. . Every piece of reporting Tyler produces is reviewed by an editing team before it is posted online or published in print — part of the ‘s tradition, since 1872, of producing reliable independent journalism. Read more about , and . Our newsroom depends on a growing audience of readers to power our journalism. If you are not a paid reader, please consider . Our newsroom depends on its audience of readers to power our journalism. Thank you for your support. Tyler Searle is a multimedia producer who writes for the ‘s city desk. A graduate of Red River College Polytechnic’s creative communications program, he wrote for the , and before joining the paper in 2022. . Every piece of reporting Tyler produces is reviewed by an editing team before it is posted online or published in print — part of the ‘s tradition, since 1872, of producing reliable independent journalism. Read more about , and . Our newsroom depends on a growing audience of readers to power our journalism. If you are not a paid reader, please consider . Our newsroom depends on its audience of readers to power our journalism. Thank you for your support. Advertisement AdvertisementWith January around the corner, you may already be focused on figuring out your health goals for next year. Maybe a FitBit is on your , or you've made a resolution to sign up for monthly group workout classes with a friend. But before you decide exactly what 2025 fitness trends you want to invest in, take a peek at the most popular workouts of 2024, compiled by Strava, ClassPass and more. From continuing to lead as the fitness It Girl to music-themed classes having a moment, the trends of 2024 give a glimpse at priorities in 2025. As part of its annual , ClassPass shared that Pilates was the most-booked workout on an international scale in 2024, its second year in a row in the top spot. Pilates increased its bookings on the platform by 84% since last year, so popularity around Pilates isn’t slowing down anytime soon. Pilates, which as a method for dancers to recover from injury, has reached new popularity in the 21st century. While mat Pilates continues to be a tried-and-true format, variations like and have added variety into the mix. ClassPass said in its report that Pilates’ “strong social media presence” and “devoted following” are the main reasons it’s the top workout of 2024. TikTok metrics support this claim, too: A representative for the platform tells TODAY.com that between 2023 and 2024, the hashtag #pilates saw a 105% increase in posts. Heather Andersen, founder of New York Pilates who's been teaching Pilates for 18 years, tells TODAY.com that she noticed it “came into the spotlight” after the COVID-19 pandemic hit. “It is a really strange experience to go through having something that was my niche thing that I was into, no one knew what it was, to all of a sudden being in a world where my niche thing that I was into is now the hot thing that everyone is into,” Andersen explains. Andersen says she's noticed more students at the New York Pilates studio and more Pilates studios opening up in general in recent years. Popular workout tracking app Strava reported that was the fastest-growing sport among women in 2024, and the traditional strength training as No. 5 on its top 10 worldwide fitness trends for 2025. Not only is important for people to build and maintain muscle mass throughout their lifetime, but it can also prevent injury and disease down the line, as well as increase self-esteem. Obé Fitness co-founder Ashley Millers says interest in strength training at her business has drastically increased this year, especially for older women — research shows that strength training can be especially beneficial in the . Obé Fitness enrollment for strength training on the digital platform has multiplied by 10 in 2024 compared to 2023. ClassPass also reported strength training has become a popular complementary workout to Pilates, cycling, and boxing, emerging as “a necessary component to a balanced fitness routine.” It’s influence on social media is telling, too. A TikTok representative reports that the hashtag #strengthtraining has seen a 38% increase between 2023 and 2024, with over 1.3 million total posts to date. Both Strava's and ClassPass's reports highlighted the growing popularity of group activities and community-centric sports. ClassPass shared that volleyball reservations spiked by 256% since 2023, and soccer also saw a 158% increase. But the largest and perhaps most surprising jump was in ice skating, which saw a whopping 698% increase in reservations. “This triple-digit rise in Volleyball, Soccer, and Ice Skating may be fueled by a wave of Olympic excitement, including anticipation for the 2024 Summer Games and the 2026 Winter Olympics, as well as the growing visibility of these sports on social media,” the report stated. Strava’s trends report revealed that the number of run clubs on the app grew by 59% — but maybe it’s not so surprising, considering 2024 was the year people . The reasons behind seeking out a group sport may vary, of course. According to Strava, 48% of participants said the main reason for joining a group is to socialize; 34% reported that they join group activities to hold themselves accountable, while 43% were focused on performance improvement. The ClassPass trends report showed that music-themed classes dominated in 2024. alone secured 15,792 user reservations on ClassPass. With singers like Sabrina Carpenter and Olivia Rodrigo continuing their international tours into the new year, plus Kendrick Lamar, Coldplay and Dua Lipa confirming upcoming 2025 tours, these beat-dropping classes are likely to shine in the new year. “In 2024, people shifted from bigger-better-faster-all-the-time to more moderate fitness practices they can sustain for the long haul,” the Strava report explained. It also found that many users were interested in prioritizing rest, , and mental health over long, intense workouts. According to Strava, 57% of participants voted 45-60 minutes is their preferred workout length, compared to just 16% who wanted to work out more than an hour a day. The app also looked at the popularity of workouts lasting 20 or fewer minutes. Stair steppers were most popular, followed by ellipticals, and . When looking ahead to 2025, nearly 20% of Strava participants said they want to make stretching and mobility a top health and fitness goal. On TikTok, the hashtag #mobility was used 35% more over the past year. Millers agrees that stretch and recovery classes have become significantly more popular on Obé Fitness's digital platform. “Movement is increasingly being viewed as a form of mindfulness and enrichment, rather than always needing to push to extremes with intense cardio or workouts,” she explains. According to Strava, 65% of Gen Z users said health and fitness is a top priority in 2025. The American College of Sports Medicine also emphasized the importance of working out for mental health in its , ranking it as one of its top 10 trends to see in 2025. “This trend focuses on exercise programming designed to improve aspects of mental health, like reducing feelings of anxiety, stress, and depression,” the report read. The American College of Sports Medicine reported that wearable technology — such as fitness trackers, smartwatches, heart rate monitors and GPS trackers — is the No. 1 fitness trend going into 2025, though the organization has given it the top spot almost every year since 2016. “These devices can provide information such as physical activity, health markers, sedentary behaviors, sleep, and even stress,” the trends report stated. “Wearable activity trackers can support healthy lifestyle behavior change through goal setting, personalized coaching, or connecting with apps to provide actionable insights.” Another tech-related trend on ACSM’s list is data-driven training and technology, or a type of training that “can help clients understand the physiological responses to an exercise stimulus in real-time.” ClassPass noted in its report a 159% increase in body scan reservations in 2024, compared to the previous year, which shows a spike in interest around letting health technology guide “overall health and wellness practices.” Nicoletta Richardson is the trending editor for TODAY Digital and is based around the New York City area.

A high-speed passenger train collided with a fire engine at a crossing on Saturday in Florida, injuring three firefighters and at least a dozen train passengers, authorities said. The crash happened at 10.45am in crowded downtown Delray Beach, multiple news outlets reported. The Brightline train was stopped on the tracks, its front destroyed, about a block away from the Delray Beach fire rescue truck, its ladder ripped off and strewn in the grass several yards away, The Sun-Sentinel newspaper reported. The Delray Beach Fire Rescue said in a social media post that three Delray Beach firefighters were in stable condition at a hospital. Palm Beach County Fire Rescue took 12 people from the train to the hospital with minor injuries. Emmanuel Amaral rushed to the scene on his golf cart after hearing a loud crash and screeching train brakes from where he was having breakfast a couple of blocks away. He saw firefighters climbing out of the window of their damaged truck and pulling injured colleagues away from the tracks. One of their helmets came to rest several hundred feet away from the crash. “The front of that train is completely smashed, and there was even some of the parts to the fire truck stuck in the front of the train, but it split the car right in half. It split the fire truck right in half, and the debris was everywhere,” Mr Amaral said. Brightline officials did not immediately comment on the crash. A spokesperson for the National Transportation Safety Board said it was still gathering information about the crash and had not decided yet whether it will investigate. The NTSB is already investigating two crashes involving Brightline’s high-speed trains that killed three people early this year at the same crossing along the railroad’s route between Miami and Orlando. More than 100 people have died after being hit by trains since Brightline began operations in July 2017 – giving the railroad the worst death rate in the United States. But most of those deaths have been either suicides, pedestrians who tried to run across the tracks ahead of a train or drivers who went around crossing gates instead of waiting for a train to pass. Brightline has not been found to be at fault in those previous deaths.Saints rookie QB Spencer Rattler has frustrating night in shutout loss to Packers