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The City of Troy, NY will have to pay 45 percent more that it expected to repair its 133-year-old Troy Fire Station 6 at Canal Avenue and Third Street after the contractor discovered that water damage requires extensive structural work, TimesUnion.com reported Monday.

The renovations at the firehouse, also known by its historic designation as the J.C. Osgood Fire House, were into their fourth week when the construction firm CD Perry reported that the basement concrete floors were deteriorating and the steel supports for the building are corroded, the report said.

For more on this story, please go to TimesUnion.com.

The Blaine Volunteer Fire Department received a $750,000 federal grant to build a new station after its old one burned down, WCHSTV.com reported.

The new station will be built at the department’s temporary location in the Martha community of Lawrence County, the report said.

In 2013, the former fire station near Blaine burned down. The VFD bought the former Ashland Oil garage, but the department has five trucks and only two can be parked inside the garage. The other three are parked at locations throughout the county.

A $750,000 federal grant will fund a new fire station to solve that problem. It will be built behind the temporary station, the report said.

Tuscaloosa police are looking for leads that will help them identify the driver of a vehicle that struck a Fire Department rescue truck responding to a medical call.

The driver crossed into the wrong lane of Hargrove in order to pass the emergency vehicle, police said in a statement. The paramedics were running both lights and sirens on their way to a stroke patient who needed urgent medical attention.

This dash cam video was captured by the Northstar ambulance following the rescue truck.

The suspect vehicle appears to be a 2010-2014 Hyuandai Elantra. This happened on Hargrove Road just past the train station at 6:38 p.m. on Saturday, August 19.

Please call Tuscaloosa Police at 205-349-2121 if you can help!

Honolulu Emergency Medical Services is taking three ambulances out of service while it investigates the cause of an explosion that killed a patient and burned a paramedic.

A memo from the EMS said three rigs similar to the one that burned will all be idled while a consultant hired to look into the fire completes its investigation, KHON reports.

Bobby Lee, president of the Hawaii Fire Fighters Association, said his members were pleased with the decision. The union had urged its members to not ride on ambulances until a cause was found. Taking the similar ambulances out of service answers the union’s concerns.

The investigation into the cause will focus on the oxygen system in the ambulance, including the way patients are transferred to portable oxygen when paramedics are getting them ready to transfer from the rig to the hospital, KHON reported.

Fred Kaneshiro, 91, was being transported in the ambulance when it exploded on Aug. 24 fire outside Adventist Health Castle hospital. He died in the fire. Paramedic Jeff Wilkinson was critically injured.

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