Two people were taken to the hospital to be treated for injuries suffered in a house fire Tuesday morning in Spokane Valley. Fire crews were on the scene around 2 am on East 10th, between Carnahan and Park Road. Firefighters on the scene said the fire appears to have started in the kitchen, but they didn't have an exact cause Tuesday morning.
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Fire Prevention Week is Oct. 6-12 and Benton County Fire District 4 is running a “Smoke alarms: Make them work for you” campaign. The goal of the campaign is to educate the community about the importance of working smoke alarms in the home, according to a BCFD4 press release. The community is invited to an open house from 11 a.
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Chris Mc Loone shares his thoughts on Hurricane Helene and its remnants as at least five states continued to be impacted by the storm as well as an update on the Atlanta “Hybrid Trucks” recently placed in service in this episode of the Fire Apparatus & Emergency Equipment Podcast.
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Jenavieve Hatch
The Sacramento Bee
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Sacramento police arrested a man Friday night after he crashed into a Sacramento Fire Department fire engine, authorities said.

The man hit the fire truck around 7 p.m. Friday at the intersection of Pell Drive and Main Avenue, which connects to Del Paso Road in North Sacramento’s Pell/Main Industrial Park neighborhood.

According to police, neither the driver nor any members of the Fire Department were injured in the crash. The driver was treated for non-life-threatening injuries at a nearby hospital and was arrested on suspicion of DUI.

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More than $265,000 has been raised so far for the firefighters injured when their truck overturned on an Orange County toll road last week, with contributions from Southern California hotshot crews, firefighter and police unions and others.

• Eight Firefighters Injured in Fire Truck Rollover on Southern CA Freeway

The crash occurred on the evening of Sept. 19, north of the Portola Parkway exit on the northbound 241 Toll Road. Eight members of the Orange County Fire Authority’s Santiago hand crew were headed back to their command post in a transport truck, following a 12-hour shift battling the over-23,000 acre Airport fire in the Cleveland National Forest area.

For reasons under investigation, the driver lost control and struck a metal guard rail, causing the truck to overturn and roll over several times before it landed on its side. Six of the eight injured crew members, who ranged between the ages of 24 to 34, suffered serious injuries.

As of Tuesday, Sep. 24, four critically injured members remained hospitalized, officials said. They were expected to remain in the hospital for “quite a while,” OCFA Fire Chief Brian Fennessy said in a news conference last week.

A relief fund for the eight affected firefighters and their families was set up by the OCFA and its union, with a fundraising goal of $500,000. The money raised will help with medical costs not covered by insurance, caregiver fees and other supplemental expenses they will incur “on the long road to recovery,”  said Orange County Professional Firefighters Association, Local 3631 President Chris Hamm.

“We drive the same kind of buggy, we do the same work they do… I’m sure they would have done the same for us,” said Patrick Fearon, a foreman at Los Angeles County’s Fire Camp 8 in Malibu. Fearon and close to 30 other hand-crew members made a group contribution of $2,000, with each individual pitching in what they could.

Over $265,000 total had been raised as of Tuesday, with roughly $236,000 in donations from a GoFundMe and a little over $30,000 through PayPal. Donors included hotshot crews and firefighter unions based in Los Angeles County, the Inland Empire, and even as far as Sacramento and Vacaville. So far, the single largest donation came from the San Bernardino County Professional Firefighters Local 935, which gave $15,000.

“It’s a tragic incident. Anything we can do to help our brothers and sisters in Orange County, we always will,” IAFF Local 935 President Jim Gregoli said.

Some local police unions also showed support, including the police associations of Garden Grove, Huntington Beach and Seal Beach. Garden Grove Police Association President Brian Stroud described the relationship between police and firefighters as a special brotherhood, with a long history of both agencies being there for each other. When he was injured in the line of duty, OCFA was there for him.

“We’ve been there to help them and they’ve been there for us. If one of them goes down, we feel the pain as well,” Stroud said.