This Sunday will mark one year since the devastating Gray and Oregon Road fires hit the Inland Northwest. Nonstop Local spoke with one man who couldn't believe his home was gone until he saw it for himself. This is the Steege family. Jason, the father, was at home by himself when the neighborhood was being evacuated.
- PUB DATE: 8/13/2024 1:34:00 PM - SOURCE: NonStop Local

VIDEO: David Baston was working at The Jayhawk Club in Lawrence, Kansas, when he began to feel ill on Feb. 28. A co-worker hopped in a car with him, and the two headed for Lawrence Memorial Hospital (LMH). However, Baston said he had a gut feeling he needed medical assistance immediately, so they veered off the path to the hospital and pulled into Fire Station No.
- PUB DATE: 8/13/2024 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KSHB-TV NBC 41 Kansas City

VIDEO: Mayor Eric Adams on Monday appointed Robert S. Tucker, the head of a private security firm, to head the city's fire department. Tucker, 54, takes over from Laura Kavanagh, the first woman to serve as the city's fire commissioner. “I can think of no higher calling than serving as a fire commissioner of New York,” Tucker, the chairman and CEO of security firm T&M USA, said at a news conference.
- PUB DATE: 8/13/2024 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WNBC-TV NBC 4 New York City

More than 300,000 people are expected to descend on Sedalia, a town of about 22,000 people, in the coming days for the Missouri State Fair. Nearly a thousand people work at the fair — making delicious fried treats, operating carnival rides, running livestock shows and more. So, what happens if something goes wrong? That responsibility falls on the State Fair Volunteer Fire Department, an organization that is now in its 62nd year of service and provides fire response, emergency medical services and training opportunities for the volunteers that staff the department.
- PUB DATE: 8/13/2024 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KBIA-FM 91.3 Columbia

VIDEO: At a lab in the Medical District of Dallas, Cancer Check Labs is behind a big project aiming to detect cancer early in firefighters. Cancer is the number one cause of death in firefighters. Two out of three will be diagnosed, which is more than three times the general population's cancer rate.
- PUB DATE: 8/13/2024 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WFAA-TV ABC 8 Dallas