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Posted: Aug 17, 2022

How a 2003 house fire shaped a Missouri fire department's training and gear

VIDEO: Dennis Jenkerson remembers the moment he thought he was going to lose two firefighters like it happened an hour ago. “When I say trapped, I mean they had nowhere to go,” Jenkerson said. “They were hanging out the window and the fire was blowing out the window above them.” That was 19 years ago.
- PUB DATE: 8/17/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KSDK-TV NBC 5 St. Louis
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Posted: Aug 17, 2022

Maine firefighters use duct tape to help put out a fire at a metallurgy company

Firefighters battled a smoldering fire for nearly five hours at Elmet Technologies at 1560 Lisbon St. Monday afternoon before employing a duct-taped pole to reach burning material in a duct and extinguish it. At 4:19 p.m., the department responded to reports of heavy smoke blowing out from a duct near the top of the building.
- PUB DATE: 8/17/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Lewiston Sun Journal - Metered Site
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Posted: Aug 17, 2022

Texas Firefighter Who Died From Off-Duty Accident Helps Others as Organ Donor

VIDEO: A firefighter in Rockwall County, who was also an organ donor, is being remembered for his commitment to service and passion to help others. Clifford Haney,45, was taken off life support on Tuesday. He sustained major injuries after he fell while at his off-duty job as an HVAC tech last week.
- PUB DATE: 8/17/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KXAS-TV NBC 5 Fort Worth
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Posted: Aug 17, 2022

Detectives investigating fatal fire at RV park in Snohomish County

Authorities are investigating a death after a fire at an RV park along Smokey Point Boulevard in Snohomish County on Wednesday morning. Detectives are at the scene in Arlington, where neighbors outside their mobile homes said flames consumed one RV and spread to another around 1:50 a.m. The resident in the second RV evacuated and called 911.
- PUB DATE: 8/17/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KOMO-TV ABC 4 Seattle
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Posted: Aug 17, 2022

Firefighters prepare for potentially more fires with Red Flag warning issued around Kent

Dry grass has been growing all summer and is now prime fuel as the fire danger increases. Many times, the place a wildfire starts is along our highways when someone carelessly tosses a cigarette out the window. DOT video in Kent Wednesday morning saw crews tackling a fast-moving fire at I-5 and South Kent Des Moines Road.
- PUB DATE: 8/17/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KOMO-TV ABC 4 Seattle
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