VIDEO: A one-of-a-kind restoration project is finally complete. The Canton Volunteer Fire Department spent more than 25 years bringing one of its trucks back to life. A piece of history has made its way home. “History’s good for some things (laugh). It’s nice to let everybody reminisce how things were and how things have changed,” Canton Fire Chief Nate Laubach said.
- PUB DATE: 2/25/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KELO-TV CBS 11 Sioux Falls

Firefighters from the Seattle Fire Department were called Thursday to extinguish blazes at two different homeless encampments, including one located right outside City Hall. The first blaze occurred around 1 a.m. near 6th Ave. and James Street underneath Interstate 5 and near the James Street off-ramp.
- PUB DATE: 2/25/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KOMO-TV ABC 4 Seattle

Several people were displaced Friday morning after an apartment fire in Seattle’s Fremont neighborhood. At about 4:30 a.m., crews responded to reports of heavy smoke coming from a two-story apartment building in the 3600 block of Woodland Park Avenue North. When crews arrived, visible flames and heavy smoke was seen from the front side of the building’s first and second floor.
- PUB DATE: 2/25/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KCPQ-TV FOX 13 Seattle

Aerial operations are rare in the fire industry, but the Tolar Volunteer Fire Department (TVFD), along with every Hood County (TX) fire department, recently partook in such a response.

TVFD posted the video of its aerial tanker dropping retardant.

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“Many people saw the air tankers flying around the county today,” the department writes on Facebook. “Multiple fires popped up around Hood County and Tolar responded along with every department in the county. With continued low humidity, please no burning and watch those butts. Here is a video of one of the retardant drops.”

For the first time in its 70-year history, the Jefferson City (MT) Volunteer Fire Department has a new engine in service, according to a report published by KRTV 3.

The television station reported that the 2022 engine will replace a 1979 engine that was donated to the department a decade ago and the Jefferson City firefighters are hoping to donate it to another Montana fire department in need.

The brand new engine was funded by the Pegasus Gold Mine property tax and was ordered about a year ago, the television station reported, adding the new engine will accommodate five firefighters and one engineer. The previous truck would only handle three firefighters and an engineer.