Smeal—Mount Pleasant (NC) Volunteer Fire Department pumper. Spartan Metro Star cab and chassis; Cummins L9 450-hp engine; Waterous CSUC20 2,000-gpm pump; 1,000-gallon polypropylene water tank; Onan 6-kW generator. Dealer: Rob Smith, Atlantic Coast Fire Trucks, Denver, NC.

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The weeks leading up to Christmas have been action-packed for local law enforcement. In the early morning hours of Dec. 4, Orcas Fire and Rescue and San Juan County Sheriff’s deputies responded to a structure fire in the Olga area that was initially deemed suspicious. It has since been ruled accidental.
- PUB DATE: 12/16/2021 1:02:39 AM - SOURCE: San Juan Islands' Sounder

VIDEO: Three people were killed late Wednesday night after a fire truck collided with an SUV and crashed into a building in Westport. A Kansas City Fire Department truck was heading northbound on Broadway Boulevard near Westport Road on the way to a house fire shortly after 10 p.m. The fire truck then collided with a Honda CRV that was traveling westbound on Westport Road.
- PUB DATE: 12/16/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KCTV CBS 5 Kansas City

VIDEO: A fire helmet is a piece of equipment firefighters use every day. But the helmets can’t be used forever. “These helmets, they have about a 10-year shelf life,” Shanen French, Founder of Lids For Kids, said. “At 10 years, regardless of if it’s new, used, or whatever, we have to figure out a way to repurpose it.
- PUB DATE: 12/16/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WJHG-TV 7 NBC/CW+ Panama City

Firefighters were temporarily trapped after multiple power poles reportedly snapped and fell over in front of Hobby Lobby at Frisco Station Mall in Rogers, Ark., causing stoplights to be out all along Walnut Street Wednesday afternoon. Witnesses say they believe strong winds caused the accident. “Around lunchtime today Engine 4 was traveling down Walnut Street when several utility poles broke and dropped live electrical wires on the fire truck, trapping the crew.
- PUB DATE: 12/16/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KNWA-TV NBC 51 Rogers