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Posted: Jul 25, 2022

Watch a wind turbine disintegrate in Texas after a lightning strike

VIDEO: A North Texas wind farm is one turbine down thanks to what officials believe was a devastating lightning strike to one of the massive structures on Friday afternoon. Videos from witnesses and firefighters showed the wind turbine generator ablaze and disintegrate in the sky over Crowell, Texas.
- PUB DATE: 7/25/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KRIV-TV FOX 26 Houston
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Posted: Jul 25, 2022

Stolen New York fire pickup tracked down with GPS; equipment a ‘total loss,’ officials say

PHOTO: A Syracuse Fire Department pickup truck stolen early Friday morning was found using the vehicle’s GPS heading onto the New York State Thruway, fire officials said. The truck was stolen at about 1 a.m. from in front of a residence in the 100 block of North Edwards Avenue in the city’s Eastwood neighborhood, Onondaga County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Jon Seeber said.
- PUB DATE: 7/25/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Syracuse.com
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Posted: Jul 25, 2022

Firefighter helmet found in Ohio basement returned to family

VIDEO/PHOTOS: The benefits and shortcomings of social media are often debated, but two local families are crediting Facebook with solving a mystery that was decades in the making. The story began to unfold when a couple began cleaning out a storage area in the basement of their new home in Lorain, and discovered an old firefighter’s helmet.
- PUB DATE: 7/25/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WJW-TV FOX 8 Cleveland
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Posted: Jul 25, 2022

Great Oregon Steam-Up puts focus on vintage firefighting

In the 1950s, a group of local farmers felt nostalgic. Before World War II, they tended the land with wheat thrashers and steam engines, but as technology improved, their tools fell out of use and things started to change. Channeling their nostalgia into action, farmers pulled their old equipment out and invited the public in.
- PUB DATE: 7/25/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Salem Reporter
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Posted: Jul 25, 2022

New state-of-the-art vehicles joins a fire-rescue department in Alabama

VIDEO: The Mobile Fire-Rescue Department (MFRD) showed off some brand new vehicles today. Four firetrucks and three ambulances joined the MFRD’s fleet along with two special additions... a hydration truck and training trailer. The hydration unit is a response to high temperatures. “It is a rehabilitation unit for firefighters.
- PUB DATE: 7/25/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WALA-TV FOX 10 Mobile
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