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Fire guts meat packing plant

A stubborn fire in the 121-year-old Patrick Cudahy meatpacking plant drained the city's water supply and forced residents from their homes by the threat of  smoke that billowed from the blaze through a second night. More

Fire damages West Linn home

Firefighters from Tualatin Valley Fire and Rescue, Lake Oswego Fire and Rescue and Clackamas County Fire District No. 1 were called at about 7 a.m. to 1913 Sunburst Terrace where they found heavy fire and smoke pouring from the back of the house.
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Reduction in staffing considered in Omaha

The Omaha City Council will consider a resolution July 14th allowing for reduced staffing on fire trucks. It would still need the union's approval before becoming law. The fire union opposes reduced staffing, saying service in Omaha is first rate and this would change that. Read....

Documents reveal firefighters' records in DC

Documents show an unknown amount of firefighters with criminal backgrounds are working for the D.C.Fire Department. FOX 5 obtained exclusive internal affairs documents from the department that show many have records, but are issued little more than a written reprimand by Chief Dennis Rubin. More

Howard County, Maryland, blaze rips apartment complex

Grocery store ruined by flames

The interior of the Pick & Pack grocery store was destroyed when fire broke out after a deep-fat fryer was left on.  More
 

Pierce scores Navy contract

Pierce Manufacturing announced the reception of a new order for 29 Contender fire pumper trucks for the U.S. Navy. More

3 alarm in the Bronx

A three-alarm fire ripped through a Bronx apartment building. Fire officials say the fire broke out just after 4 a.m. on East 138th Street in Mott Haven. Read...

Utility to pay $700 million in fire claims

San Diego Gas & Electric Co will pay insurers $686 million to settle claims related to wildfires that blazed through San Diego county in October 2007.   More....

Widow files second lawsuit in poisoning

A woman who lost her husband and daughter to carbon monoxide poisoning at an Ocean City hotel has filed a $20 million lawsuit against the town's Fire/EMS Division for failing to come to their aid for more than four hours.  Read

Firefighter awards signal change in Franklin TN

Two of the five Franklin firefighters singled out for outstanding performance awards this year were part of the controversy two years ago surrounding a flurry of racial discrimination lawsuits. Read

First Annual Training Weekend Slated for September near Binghamton, NY

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Bill would extend benefits to paramedics' families

Vermont's two U.S. senators are sponsoring legislation that would extend death benefits to relatives of paramedics who work for nonprofit ambulance services and are killed in the line of duty. Read on...

Homeland Security: Report Released Regarding Infrastructure Protection

The National Association of Chiefs of Police obtained this June 26, 2009 report on the day it was released to the US Congress. The following are highlights from that extensive report. Read it here

Bus firm to take 90% of blame for fatal 2005 crash

Victims of a 2005 bus accident that killed four people and injured 19 others on Interstate 390 in Livingston County may soon see a financial settlement in connection with a civil lawsuit.
In the Jan. 29, 2005, accident, a bus carrying members and supporters of a Canadian women’s hockey team slammed into the rear of a tractor-trailer that had stopped on the shoulder of I-390 in Geneseo. More

Bus accident shakes day care children

A bus travelling from Filer to Buhl on U.S. Highway 30 left 25 local day care children shaken but unharmed.
 
 
 

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A bus rests in a corn field along U.S. Highway 30 near Filer after the driver suffered a medical condition and left the road, after hitting another vehicle. Neither of the drivers, or any of the passengers, were injured.

Boston fire union refuses to leave closed stations

Defiant off-duty firefighters are disobeying Fire Department orders and voluntarily staffing three Boston fire companies that were closed today as part of a new “brown out” policy aimed at reducing overtime spending.
 
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Pierce issues apparatus recall

Summary: PIERCE IS RECALLING 248 MODEL YEAR 2003 THROUGH 2009 FIRE APPARATUS BODIES MANUFACTURED BETWEEN DECEMBER 10, 2003 AND MARCH 9, 2009, AND MAY HAVE BEEN EQUIPPED WITH DUAL SCBA CYLINDER STORAGE COMPARTMENTS. THESE COMPARTMENTS EXTEND INBOARD HORIZONTALLY FROM THE SIDE OF THE REAR BODY. THE SCBA COMPARTMENT DOOR LATCH MAY HAVE BEEN MANUFACTURED INCORRECTLY, ALLOWING THE DOOR TO POP OPEN WITHOUT WARNING WHILE THE VEHICLE IS IN MOTION.  More

Truck In Flames, Claims The Life of Driver in Colorado

Colorado State Patrol is investigating an accident that claimed the life of a semi-truck driver and sent the truck up in flames. The semi-truck was carrying 8400 gallons of gas, which caught fire, engulfing the truck in flames.

Popular PA bar wrecked by flames

 
A state police fire marshal is investigating the cause of a Tuesday afternoon blaze that gutted a popular Arnold, PA,  bar. Fire fighters from three cities responded to the fire at David's Bar & Grill along Drey Street shortly before 1 p.m. The fire, which apparently started in the second floor of the structure, destroyed the business and closed busy Drey Street for hours while firefighters mopped up the mess. Fire companies from Arnold, New Kensington and Lower Burrell had the blazed knocked down in less than half an hour.
 
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12,000 Sq. Ft. Home Burns in Scottsdale, AZ

Fire officials in Scottsdale say a fire that destroyed a 12,000-square-foot home was accidentally caused by construction crews still working to finish the house. Fire spokeswoman Tiffani Nichols said the blaze caused $3.5 million in damage.   More
 

SC church ruined by fire

A church built in the 1920s was gutted by an apparent electrical fire early Tuesday morning in the Smoaks community of Colleton County, authorities report.
 

Four units from Colleton County Fire Rescue were dispatched to Emmanuel Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ of the Apostolic Church at 3:25 a.m., according to Assistant Chief David Greene. When the units arrived on the scene, an addition at the back of the brick structure was fully involved and the fire had spread to the front, he said.    More

Maryland's Montgomery County nixes EMS fees

An ambulance fee that Montgomery County Executive Isiah Leggett said was needed to help balance the budget has been rejected by the County Council.  More
 
 

Fire destroys truck stop in Texas

An early morning fire Wednesday destroyed the 7-11 Fina Truck Stop, located about two miles east of Harrold on U.S. Hwy 287.   Dryer may get blamed for blaze.

Meth lab suspected in two alarm blaze

It’s the latest in a series of apartment fires in Kalamazoo. A unit at the Fox Ridge Complex off Alamo on Kalamazoo’s Northwest side caught fire, with flames and thick smoke rising from the roof of the building.  Photo by BOBBY HOPEWELL