Statesboro Fire Department has announced that beginning November 1, 2022 they will be offering “Virtual Fire Inspections” for certain types of fire safety inspections. The department says the program is intended to make fire inspections easier and more convenient for business owners and their employees.
- PUB DATE: 10/31/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: All on Georgia

VIDEO: A joke over breakfast turned into a life-changing moment for two Lower Michigan firefighters. They were in Upper Michigan - hours from home - battling the Menominee warehouse fire. Joshua Halliday is a firefighter at the Frederic Fire Department near Grayling. His wife, Stephanie Halliday, is also a firefighter at the nearby Beaver Creek Fire Department.
- PUB DATE: 10/31/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WLUC-TV NBC/FOX 6 Marquette

The future of recruitment in emergency services is changing, and Burke County is getting a head start. Burke County EMS and Western Piedmont Community College are partnering to offer the region’s first EMS Academy next year, where participants will earn all the credentials they need to to be paramedics.
- PUB DATE: 10/31/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Morganton News Herald

The Loch Katrine fire that burned so close to our valley home in the last two weeks reminds us that the Snoqualmie Valley is as vulnerable to fires as areas in Eastern Washington, Oregon and California. Many early accounts of Valley life mention sweeping fires, and the photograph below records just one of the many fires that burned the face of Mount Si.
- PUB DATE: 10/31/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Living Snoqualmie

With the weather finally matching up to the calendar, fire restrictions have dropped for almost all districts in Oregon and Washington. The number of acres burned this year in the pacific northwest is significantly lower than in recent fire seasons. KATU News spoke with the Washington Department of Natural Resources about the agency's efforts to keep numbers low.
- PUB DATE: 10/31/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KOMO-TV ABC 4 Seattle