Alexander Sepulveda Rivera, 26, has been charged with vehicular homicide and DUI after crashing into a utility vehicle, fatally injuring two volunteer firefighters in Richmond.

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The Massachusetts governor's office announced fire equipment grants for Gloucester and Essex to purchase safety equipment.

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Emergency Equipment Professionals (EEP) is now part of Ten-8 Fire & Safety., allowing it to expand its Pierce dealership presence and expand service, support and apparatus sales capabilities to fire departments throughout Alabama and Mississippi.

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VIDEO/PHOTOS: Two boats and most of a dock along the Oregon side of the Columbia River at Rainier were burned in a fire on Sunday afternoon, according to officials. Just past noon, crews with Clark-Cowlitz Fire & Rescue were sent to a marine fire at Scipio’s Goble Landing, according to the Vancouver Fire Department.

CCFR then requested help from the Vancouver Fire Department and Portland Fire & Rescue, Vancouver Fire said. However, the majority of the flames were put out by fire boats with Clark-Cowlitz Fire & Rescue and Scappoose Fire. According to PFR, they sent a fireboat to help with the response, but that boat was soon released from the scene.

At about 3 p.m., officials with Vancouver Fire said three boats had been lost, along with most of a dock. However, shortly before 8 p.m., firefighters said officials determined that only two boats had caught fire, leaving one partially submerged and one completely sunk.

KPTV FOX 12 Portland

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Crews battled a massive fire at an abandoned chemical factory for several hours overnight in Paterson, New Jersey. Smoke continued to pour out of the rubble throughout the day Saturday.

The flames, which began around 11:30 p.m., burned through the old facility on Piercy St. near Presidential Blvd. and the Passaic River, also damaging power lines that caused some people nearby to lose electricity.

“I was about to go to bed and looked out the window, saw the flames, felt the heat,” neighbor Ramon Pacheco told NBC New York, about the fire that also threatened nearby homes. “Just woke the wife up and the kids, and you just got out (of) the house before anything happened.”

Paterson Deputy Fire Chief Michael Cleenput says the factory has likely been abandoned for about two decades. “We had one operational hydrant and severe low water pressure. So, that took a while to really overcome and get an effective firefight here,” he said.

Other fire departments were called in to help battle the 5-alarm fire. “We were surprised to find out that after all the years of this building being vacant, that there was a live gas feed,” said Cleenput. Crews were eventually able to shut down the gas feed.

WNBC-TV NBC 4 New York City

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