Dec. 21, 2025

Santa Claus stops off to put out a fire

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Santa detours from a holiday parade to help firefighters put out a blaze, and later brings cheer to children at Johns Hopkins Children's Center in Baltimore. Baltimore Ravens linebacker Quan Smith and teammates treat kids to a holiday shopping spree. In Indiana, a dachshund named Rory becomes a self-appointed elf, placing her own toys under the tree. Asian Santa blends Chinese traditions with Western holiday imagery at Portland's Lan Su Chinese Garden. Lastly, Louisiana kids can call Santa's voicemail to leave wishlists and hear a prerecorded message reminding them to be kind.

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Callaroga Shark Media. By there, I'm Johnny Mack with five

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good news Christmas stories. Boy Santa Claus is busy. He

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was on his way to a holiday parade, but first

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he had to put out a fire. Yeah, they're Sanna.

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He's on his way to the parade, and he hears

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about this fire from Captain Robert Churchie. Yeah. And Captain Churchie,

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who works for the fire department, was like, hey, y, Sanna,

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we know you're all dressed up and your red outfit.

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You know you're not really dressed for a fire right now,

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but you know, could you help us with the fire?

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Sure thing, Captain Churchie. So they all headed down, Captain Churchie,

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the firefighters, Santa, they're all there. Firefighters quickly extinguished the

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blade inside the building. No injuries, everybody's fine. Santa did

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make it back in time to participate in the parade. Now,

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I don't know what happened to Captain Churchie. He wasn't

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at the parade, but I guess, you know, somebody's got

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to be back at the fire house. I'm sure he

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would have loved to have seen the parade there. But

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Santa was there, and I think that's the important thing.

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Then in Baltimore, Santa touchdown in a helicopter at Johns

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Hopkins Children's Center to bring some holiday magic to patients.

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Santa greeted kids, listen to wish lists, walk through the

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halls with the sack of gifts now. The day before that,

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Baltimore Ravens linebacker Roquan Smith and a group of teammates

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hosted dozens of kids for a holiday shopping spree at

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Target in Baltimore County. About thirty Ravens showed up with

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that one. The Ravens cheerleaders and Poe the mascot kept

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the energy up. The kids capped the trip with a

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pizza party. They also left with Rokwan Smith jerseys and

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some extra goodies from Target. A dashound in Indiana has

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appointed herself santas top elf the Internet has gotten smitten.

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Rory the Dashound has been watching her human friend Amelia

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decorate for the holidays. At first, Rory was just curious,

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but once rap presence started appearing under the tree, Rory

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the Dashown decided she had a job to do too.

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Rory began placing her own toys and bones under the tree,

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sometimes tucking them aside bags smart dog. There. A TikTok

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video shows Rory proudly sitting beside the tree while the

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camera zooms around on her carefully placed bone. Now across

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the world we have all sorts of different traditions. Recently,

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if you were at Portland's Lansuit Chinese Garden, you got

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to see Asian Santa. Asian Santa was dressed in the

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classic red suit with the beard of the boots. But

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Asian Santa celebrates Dongi, the Chinese winter solstice, and he

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shows up not in a sleigh, but in an ox cart.

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Venus said, the idea is to blend Chinese traditions with

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Western holiday imagery so young Asian Americans can see themselves

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in the celebration. I like this idea a lot Asian

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Santa is part of the mix. This was inspired by

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a nineteen ninety two Hong Kong movie where actor Elvis

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Swee appears in a red white beard, with Chinese social

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media jokingly adopting him as Chinese Santa back in twenty eighteen.

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Chinese Santa has a few unique touches, fierce eyebrows, a

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signature blessing gesture, and of course a love of gift giving.

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Around the garden. They hung golden and red lanterns, and

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the garden's per symmetry filled in as a Christmas tree

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with bright orange fruit that looks like ornaments unless the

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birds gets first. And in Louisiana, kids have a direct

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line to the North Pole or at least Santa's voicemail.

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Santa's fizzy man. He's putting out fires, but you can

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leave him a voicemail. Local station KMD LFM says Santa

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has a working phone number, and calling it has become

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a yearly tradition for parents looking to add a little

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extra magic. I'll give you the number at a second.

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A pre recorded greeting plays when you call, complete with

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Santa reminding kids to be kind, to listen to their parents,

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and leave out cookies and milk and Christmas Eve. Talk

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to Santa dot com says The hotline runs twenty four

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hours a day across all twenty two time zones. Are

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there only twenty two time zones? I thought there were

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twenty four time zones. I have to look into that,

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but not right now. Standard long distance rates may apply

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depending on your carrier. Don't get mad at me, but

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if you want to call Santa, the number is nine

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eight zero, four, four, seven two six eighty two nine

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zero four four seven two six eight two. And those

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are your five Good News at Christmas stories for today

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see tomorrow