Generac is recalling over 150,000 portable generators due to fuel leak risks that pose fire hazards.

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Designing a rig in-house with a low hosebed and rear discharges is challenging. There’s more to it than arbitrarily picking a height, choosing one your neighboring department has, or pointing to a location and saying you want a discharge there.

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Standard operating procedures (SOPs) for fleet management ensure operational readiness, enhance safety, and reduce liabilities, impacting overall firefighter and resident safety.

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PHOTOS: A raging fire erupted at an abandoned mill in Haverhill, prompting a large emergency response. According to Haverhill Fire Chief Christopher Cesati, a call came in around 3:30 a.m. from a passerby who spotted the flames at the Stevens Street mill.

“I smelled the smoke and I heard the sirens,” said Krissy Fraczek, who lives nearby. “I turned the corner and saw the big plume of smoke and I’m like, oh my God.” The building itself carries more than a century of history—some sections date back to the late 1800s. It’s also no stranger to disaster because in 2015, the mill caught fire in a massive blaze that led to the arrest of four teenagers.

“We went to three alarms on this,” said Haverhill Fire Chief Cesati. ”We have plenty of mutual aid in.” Chief Cesati says firefighters never went inside, only spraying water from the outside, knowing it was an abandoned mill ever since it caught fire in 2015.

After that incident, the department created detailed plans in case the mill ever burned again, and those preparations are now being put to the test. Cesati says crews will likely remain on-site for days to fully extinguish the fire, given how deep it is inside the building.

The mill has been vacant and boarded up since the previous fire, and officials say no one was inside when this latest blaze broke out. “But when there’s a will, there’s a way,” said Fraczek. ”People will get in, unfortunately. A lot of the homeless go in there trying to find heat and trying to find shelter.”

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PHOTOS: While there are no statistics citing how many first responders play golf, firefighters in hundreds of departments, organizations and charity events across the nation often flock to the course. With flexible 24-hour work schedules, they can play more often than almost anyone.

Some even fashion their own work area at stations to make golf clubs. Hoping for uneventful shifts as they report for duty between 7 and 8 a.m., they’re also preparing for the worst, confirming everything is in working order: trucks with proper fuel and water levels, safety equipment, hoses, medical supplies, personal gear and more.

They must be ready at a moment’s notice. One of those moments came on Feb. 17, 2022, on what dawned as a foggy and mild Michigan winter morning. Little did the golfing members of one Detroit area fire department know they were about to make golf history … by saving golf history.

Looking forward to a day off after a rough week, Oakland County’s Bloomfield Township fire chief John LeRoy normally hears alerts coming in 24/7. The one from 3951 Maple Road was especially troubling when the kitchen staff in the clubhouse at the legendary Oakland Hills Country Club smelled smoke.

At 9:17 a.m.—which sounds more like a tee time—the first call rang in and as the radio calls intensified, the chief rushed to the scene. “We get smoke calls all the time,” LeRoy says. “You can often tell by specific odors whether it’s electrical or something else and then discover its source; but the smell and location of this one was hard for anyone to define.”

The elegant 100-year-old wooden clubhouse was designed by Charles Howard Crane, an OHCC member and famous Detroit architect whose credits included the Fox Theatre, Detroit Opera House and the original Olympia Stadium, opened in 1922.

Extensive renovations had been made since 1968, including a major project in 1999, adding numerous club amenities and a memory-laden galleria along the second-floor hallway with more than 200 pictures of the early clubhouse, grounds, and tournaments past. Oakland Hills has hosted six U.S. Opens, three PGA Championships and a Ryder Cup.

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