One person was killed after a fireball tore through their Bellingham home. Police say that the fire was likely sparked at the Lincoln St home on Friday, but wasn’t reported until Sunday when someone known to the victim went to check on them. Investigators say that the resident was on oxygen and an open flame likely sparked the fireball.
- PUB DATE: 12/4/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KGMI-AM 790/FM 96.5 Bellingham

The city of Burlington will seek to hire a new full-time firefighter as part of a plan to end its fire department’s part-time firefighter program. The Burlington City Council narrowly approved the new full-time position Thursday, but did not approve the other six staff positions throughout the city that were pitched to councilmembers at their last meeting.
- PUB DATE: 12/1/2023 6:00:00 PM - SOURCE: Go Skagit

At least one person is dead after a home in South St. Paul reportedly caught fire and exploded Thursday morning. Firefighters were called to a house on Ninth Avenue South near Spruce Street just before 6:20 a.m. “I heard a big loud boom and it shook my house,” Donna Johnson, who lives nearby, told us.
- PUB DATE: 12/1/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KSTP-TV ABC 6 Saint Paul

VIDEO: Paul A. Brotherton, Timothy P. Jackson, Jeremiah M. Lucey II, James F. “Jay” Lyons III, Joseph T. McGuirk and Thomas E. Spencer: six brave men whose names the city will never forget. Dec. 3, 1999, was a sad day that continues to be recognized each year in Worcester, no matter how hard and painful for the victims' families and friends, the brotherhood and sisterhood of firefighters, and the people of Worcester to remember.
- PUB DATE: 12/1/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Worcester Telegram & Gazette - Metered Site

PHOTOS: A Tennessee man was rescued from a grain bin after he became 90% engulfed in corn kernels and crews raced to free him, firefighters said. In a Facebook post, the Ethridge Fire Department said that around 2:15 p.m. Wednesday, crews were sent to a farm on Henryville Road to rescue a 70-year-old man who owns the farm.
- PUB DATE: 12/1/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: FOX News