PHOTOS: Fire officials this week took to social media to remember a firebombing at a local mattress factory that the FBI classified at the time as the “largest arson case” nationwide. Tuesday marked 47 years since an enormous blaze ripped through the B.F. Goodrich Sponge Rubber mattress factory — now, the site of the city’s riverwalk — in one of the biggest industrial arson cases to hit the nation.
- PUB DATE: 3/2/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: New Haven Register

As of Tuesday, some Colorado Springs residents may hear something different when they call 911. "A unit will respond when a unit is available," call takers will say to residents in the south part of town who contact the emergency service for non-emergency situations — for example, when symptoms indicate the flu, a sprained ankle or a fractured hip.
- PUB DATE: 3/2/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Gazette - Metered Site

Alarm of a different kind is what the Parma Heights Fire Department discovered late last year leading to emergency construction work at the Pearl Road fire station. “The fire station was inspected by a qualified construction company,” Parma Heights Fire Chief Matt Bernard said. “It was under their recommendation that the building’s structural integrity needed to be addressed before a catastrophic failure.
- PUB DATE: 3/2/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Cleveland.com

Crews have reopened one lane of a highway after a landslide near Auburn. The slide blocked off both westbound Highway 18 lanes between Highway 167 and Weyerhaeuser Way. Anyone who was trying to go westbound is being forced off to find another route. The Valley Regional Fire Department posted a photo of the debris, which is shown coming down through the retaining wall and onto the roadway.
- PUB DATE: 3/2/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KOMO-TV ABC 4 Seattle

The Washington Department of Ecology is monitoring the effects from a fire at Nutrien Ag in Sunnyside on Monday night. Sunnyside Fire Chief Ken Anderson said it wasn’t long after workers at Nurtrien Ag Solutions discovered a smoldering pile of sulfur. “Due to the smoke, they were unable to extinguish the fire themselves.
- PUB DATE: 3/2/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: YakTriNews