June 5, 2019 is a date that may be etched in the minds of Roswell residents forever. On that day 12 City of Roswell Fire Department firefighters suffered injuries when a warehouse near the Roswell International Air Center exploded. The firefighters were preparing fireworks for the Fourth of July when an aerial shell was ignited with an electric match, read an investigation from the New Mexico Fire Marshal’s office, leading to the ignition of other explosives in the building.
- PUB DATE: 7/1/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Carlsbad Current Argus - Metered Site

The Springfield Fire Department and Brockton Police Departments have been released from a nearly half-a-century-old consent decree that prioritizes the hiring of Black and Hispanic candidates in Massachusetts police and fire departments. U.S. District Court Judge Patti. B. Saris released the two departments from the state-mandated decree on Wednesday afternoon, court documents stated.
- PUB DATE: 7/1/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Republican - MassLive

PHOTOS: When emergency dispatchers told Minnesota’s Sleepy Eye Fire Department that a man was drowning in corn kernels, the volunteers knew they were facing a farm foe as deadly as a city’s towering inferno. “It’s just pulling them down like quicksand is what it is,” Sleepy Eye Fire Chief Ron Zinniel told Coffee or Die Magazine.
- PUB DATE: 7/1/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Coffee or Die Magazine

PHOTOS: A commercial fire has been extinguished in the Seattle Chinatown-International District Friday morning. Fire crews responded to the fire at a nail salon/beauty school in the 1200 block of South Jackson Street shortly before 8 a.m. The fire did not extend into the building and no injuries were reported, firefighters said.
- PUB DATE: 7/1/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KOMO-TV ABC 4 Seattle

Last week, barely two days after it was finished, the mural on the Crowville fire station was damaged when a car crashed through it.

The year-long effort was ruined just like that. But now, Friends of Crowville, a nonprofit organization in town, has set up a GoFundMe page to fix it. As of this writing, it has raised about one-third of its goal.

“On June 24, just 48 hours after the completion of the Hello Crowville Mural on the local fire department station, it was struck by a vehicle causing major damage to the mural,” the GoFundME page says. “This was a year long project in designing, planning and completing made possible by donations, fundraising, and a grant through the Louisiana Division of the Arts and the Northeast Louisiana Arts Council.”