With the turn of a key, a 25-year-old ambulance comes back to life on Whidbey Island. It served as a medic rig on the island for decades until it came time to retire. But old Unit 12 — its actual unit number — wasn’t quite ready for the junkyard. It had unfinished business with Seahawks fans known as “the 12s.” Unit 12 is now known as the Fanbulance, spreading Seahawks pride wherever it goes for the past decade. Friday it brought Super Bowl hype to the kids at Coupeville Elementary who got to tour it.

“I think it’s awesome. I think it’s also awesome,” students said. Decked out with all sorts of Seahawks swag, even autographs from legendary players like Jim Zorn, Jemaine Kearse and Manu Tuiasosopo, the Fanbulance has become a Whidbey Island tradition. Ron Wallin originally refurbished the old ambulance and raffled it off as a fundraiser for the local Boys and Girls Club in 2014.

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The New Hope Eagle (PA) Volunteer Fire Company restored its 1951 Mack LS85 engine. The truck will be used at functions starting this spring.

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VIDEO: A large fire on the south side of the square in Fayetteville has destroyed much of a building that housed several downtown businesses.

The fire took place downtown on Market Street East on Sunday in the early morning hours, the Fayetteville Police Department said. The fire was reported out at 1 p.m.

The Skin Refinery posted video of the fire on their Facebook page and talked about their “shock and devastation” after hearing about the fire in the building their business is in.

Fayetteville Mayor Donna Hartman said she arrived to the fire at 3 a.m. after getting word. She confirmed firefighters were injured battling the blaze.

The mayor also said the City of Fayetteville stands with the business owners who face the long road to rebuilding in the weeks and months ahead.

Multiple agencies responded, including the Fayetteville Fire Department, Lincoln County Emergency Management Agency/Lincoln County Volunteer Fire Rescue, Huntsville Fire Rescue and Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office.

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VIDEO: The Wichita Falls Fire & Police Museum and team have restored a fire truck from 1947, rich with local history.

The sound of the horn of the vintage fire truck represents a symbol of history and reflects a restored past.

The sound of the bell, it represents all the vintage fire trucks in the fire and police museum that honor the fire department in Wichita Falls.

“We brought it back to the museum, we towed it over here, had the transmission and the engine serviced, and we did a little bit of the cosmetic work to get it back to the midwestern state. It took us about two years to actually get the truck to where we received it from MSU, back to a football game,” Brad Corley said.

Corley, the president of the Wichita Falls Fire and Police Museum, said the museum has a large collection of fire trucks.

“Any history through the police and fire, we were willing to get, and so we spent about six years just going all over Oklahoma and Texas and getting our trucks and having some brought back. We’ve even been to Indiana and brought back one of our trucks, and so we have a large collection of macks,” Corley said.

Their goal is to acquire Wichita Falls’ original fire trucks and preserve their history. Now, the 1947 fire truck stands intact, representing MSU and our community.

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BMW North America is recalling nearly 90,000 vehicles due to an engine starter issue, the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) announced Saturday.

The NHTSA said the recall involves 87,394 vehicles in the U.S. and is tied to an engine starter that may overheat, posing a fire risk, according to Reuters.

Dealers will replace the engine starter at no cost to owners, the NHTSA said.

The announcement comes after BMW recalled more than 145,000 vehicles in the U.S. in October over a starter defect that could overheat and spark a fire.

In September, BMW recalled 200,000 vehicles due to a similar issue, bringing the total number of affected vehicles to more than 341,000.

Those recalls affected certain 2019–2025 vehicles across six models, including the 2020 340i, X6, 2020–2025 840i, 2020–2022 740Li, and 2019–2020 X7 and X5.

Multiple automakers have issued recalls in recent weeks, including Chrysler, which earlier this week recalled more than 450,000 vehicles and more than 2,000 tow-trailer modules because of a brake light failure that could increase the risk of a crash, the NHTSA said.

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