It didn’t take long for some local firefighters to save a life, even though they had just finished their training. The three new hires made a life-saving rescue in their own fire station.Brock Trimmer, of Beloit, Sebastian Zlotkowski of Cleveland, and Ronnie Simone, of Warren, were all hired as Warren City firefighters earlier this year.
- PUB DATE: 7/19/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WJW-TV MyFox Cleveland

An entire California town was evacuated on Tuesday evening due to a 25,000-acre wildfire that had already destroyed eight structures, officials said. California fire officials issued an evacuation order for the town of Mariposa, which has a population of about 2,000, on Tuesday as the wildfire threatened to burn some 1,500 homes and structures, according to fire officials.
- PUB DATE: 7/19/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: ABC News

A senior living complex where three people died and six were injured in a blaze this weekend did not have a fire alarm, according to the city’s Fire Department. Chesapeake Crossing Senior Community Apartments was not required to have such an alarm, said fire department spokesman Capt. Scott Saunders.
- PUB DATE: 7/19/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Virginian-Pilot

Some experienced volunteer firefighters have a tough time adjusting to technological advances that are being used on emergency vehicles, the chief of a rural department said Tuesday. Cumberland County’s Public Safety Task Force talked about computer software and how it is used by emergency workers at the task force’s meeting Tuesday.
- PUB DATE: 7/19/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Fayetteville Observer

In a tradition as old as the service, firefighters from Lynden and around Whatcom County are standing vigil over the body of Lynden interim Fire Chief Robert Spinner, who died Friday of an apparent heart attack while on duty. It is the first line of duty death in the Lynden Fire Department’s 107-year history, according to a statement issued late Sunday, and the second on-duty firefighter death in Whatcom County – the other line of duty firefighter death was in March 1950, when Whatcom County Fire District 7’s Chief Clyde Eaton suffered fatal burns as a barrel of fuel exploded at a fire.
- PUB DATE: 7/18/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Bellingham Herald