Worcester firefighter Ryan Kelley had a scab on his temple for two years that never really healed. He hadn’t done anything about it, when his whole truck decided to attend a free cancer screening held by DetecTogether and UMass Memorial Health at Polar Park last year. When doctors from UMass saw the scab, they told Kelley it looked like basal cell skin cancer.
- PUB DATE: 10/26/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Mass Live

The 7th Annual JBJ Soul Kitchen Chili Cook-Off highlighted eleven local first responder units including Fire, Police and EMT, and their chili, but the event was so much more – a celebration of community. The attendees donated more than 580 pounds of food for Fulfill’s People’s Pantry, totaling 386 meals, and Jon Bon Jovi was on hand to taste each entry and thank the first responders for their service.
- PUB DATE: 10/26/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Insider NJ

PHOTO: Emergency crews on the upper Bay will soon be able to respond to those tricky shallow-water rescues more easily and safely. The all-volunteer Susquehanna Hose Company (SHCo) in Havre de Grace just announced they’re getting a state-of-the-art airboat. It will be the department’s first vessel of this kind and the only airboat in service in the area.
- PUB DATE: 10/26/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Chesapeake Bay Magazine

For the first time in the history of the Seattle Fire Department’s Acquired Structure Program, the department will conduct live-fire training at an apartment building. The training of current and new firefighter recruits at a vacant apartment building has been active in the 600 block of Second Avenue West between Oct.
- PUB DATE: 10/26/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KIRO-TV CBS 7 Seattle

In an ongoing effort to combat drug overdoses across the county, King County Public Health and Peer Seattle have teamed up and are providing people in Capitol Hill with access to a vending machine that provides Fentanyl testing strips and Narcan. The vending machine also supplies safe sex kits. The vending machine has been at Peer Seattle for a few months, and director Christopher Archiopoli said people have been using it daily.
- PUB DATE: 10/26/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KIRO-TV CBS 7 Seattle