The Naches Fire Department says a light-up collapsible marking cone was taken from the roadway yesterday, and now they're asking for it back. "You see traffic signs on the road all the time and you just assume they fell off of a truck but that's not always the case and in this situation that was definitely not the case," Lieutenant Joey Weedin, at Naches Fire Department, said.
- PUB DATE: 9/7/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KIMA-TV CBS/CW+ 29 Yakima

The Seven Bays Fire was estimated to have burned 1,000 acres as of Wednesday morning, according to an update from the Department of Natural Resources (DNR). The fire was 15% contained. The Lincoln County Sheriff's Office (LCSO) also shared Miles-Creston road has now reopened. Dozer lines have been established around all sides of the fire, and crews will focus on directly attacking the fire Wednesday and Thursday.
- PUB DATE: 9/7/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KHQ-TV NBC 6 Spokane

A windy Wednesday will cause a number of weather concerns today. Most importantly, Red Flag Warnings are in effect until 10pm tonight as fire danger hit high and critical levels due to wind speeds up to 35mph across the area. The winds will cause all the active fires in the northwest to become more active and very likely, produce more smoke resulting in widespread hazy and smoky skies.
- PUB DATE: 9/7/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KREM-TV CBS 2 Spokane

Broadview Heights (OH) will finish designing a new fire station within the next few weeks, but won’t start planning construction until it has enough money to build it, Cleveland.com reported on August 30.

A Cleveland city official said the fire station’s designer – Van Auken Akins Architects in Cleveland – will come up with a new construction cost estimate as part of its services, the report said.

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By Alan M. Petrillo

Hamburg (NY) Fire Department has a 25-year apparatus replacement program in place, but when it came time to replace a 1991 midmount platform, the price of aerials had increased so much that it put off the purchase a few more years. Ultimately, the department chose to buy a Smeal 100-foot rear mount aerial platform.

Tom Moses, Hamburg’s second assistant chief and chair of the 10-person truck committee, points out that the committee had many discussions on the merits and drawbacks of midmount and rear mount aerial platforms. “With our previous midmount, we had some minor accidents with the rear platform when making turns,” Moses says. “There also was concern with a couple of blind intersections about driving a rear mount with the platform hanging over the front of the vehicle, so we went to those intersections and took measurements to be sure our drivers could clear them driving a rear mount platform.” Moses adds that another consideration was the rear mount’s price was about $100,000 less than a comparable midmount aerial platform.

Jack Chiappone Jr., sales specialist for Colden Enterprises Fire & Rescue Division, who sold the Smeal platform to Hamburg, says the 100-foot three-section aerial rear mount platform is built on a Spartan Gladiator chassis and cab with seating for seven firefighters, six in H.O. Bostrom SecureALL™ SCBA (self contained breathing apparatus) seats, powered by a 600-horsepower (hp) Cummins X15 diesel engine, and an Allison 4000 EVS automatic transmission.

Chiappone notes the rear mount platform has a Hale QMax 2,000-gallon per minute (gpm) pump, a 300-gallon water tank, two 1-3/4-inch hose cross lays, and one 2-1/2-inch hose cross lay, and a 10-kilowatt Harrison generator. “The department wanted more ground ladders, and more compartment space, but no hose bed,” he says. “We were able to give them 300 cubic feet of 25-inch deep full depth and full height compartments, and 151 feet of ground ladders on the truck.”

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