It is essential for pump operators to know the mechanics of how component parts of a pumping system work “on the inside.”

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The City of Waco, Texas, just welcomed a new $2.2 million tiller rig and roughly $19 million of its 2027 budget on fire apparatus and fire stations.

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Trust, flexibility, and an understanding of local operating conditions can help departments and manufacturers and their dealers work together to find solutions.

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VIDEO/PHOTOS: Firefighters in West Covina battled a massive residential structure fire that engulfed the rear of a home Thursday night.

The fire was reported at around 10:30 p.m. at 3012 Cameron Avenue, near Virginia Lane, KTLA Sky5 reporter Gil Leyvas reported.

Crews with the West Covina Fire Department arrived quickly, but the rear of the home was fully engulfed in flames, while aerial footage of the blaze captured a neighbor using a water hose to try and protect nearby trees from igniting and possibly sparking a fire on the adjacent property.

Details remain limited and it’s unclear how the fire started, nor is it clear if anyone has been injured as a result of the blaze.

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In more than 40 years as a volunteer firefighter with the North Patchogue Fire Department on Long Island, Bob Meyer has been in the middle of a lot of life and death situations.

A couple of years ago, he was facing his own. Meyer, also a retired corrections officer, needed a heart transplant after a procedure to repair an aortic aneurysm at a local hospital was unsuccessful, and his heart was damaged. “Basically, they told me my heart wasn’t going to get any better,” he said.

He got on the heart transplant list locally in New York, knowing that he would likely have to become very sick before he would qualify for a donor heart, if a matching one could be found.

He had no way of knowing at the time that a chance encounter would point him to the Vanderbilt Transplant Center, and he would receive a new heart nearly 1,000 miles away.

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