Think again. We’ve all been there — you reheat or cook something, you get distracted and then suddenly your smoke alarm is going off. Your first thought is to throw out that burnt food — but think again because an EMT says that’s the most fire-hazardous thing you could do.

In the headlines on #TheUpdate this Tuesday, two teens were wounded in a cop-involved shooting after NYPD officers fired their weapons to stop a Harlem gunfight involving the victims and an 18-year-old attempted murderer who was out free due to a controversial law.

A potential strike that could have shut down the nation’s largest commuter rail system this week has been averted.

And less than two weeks before Charlie Kirk’s assassination in Utah, a sheriff’s department in central California conducted three days of reconnaissance to prepare for a speech by the conservative firebrand at a local church in politically friendly territory.