Posted: Nov 4, 2021
VIDEO/PHOTOS: A unique piece of history has returned home to one North Texas town.
A 1948 fire engine was recently discovered in a field by landowners in Sweetwater, Texas.
Anna Fire Chief Ray Isom says the landowners contacted the department and offered to donate the engine back to the city.
“They actually sent photos of it,” Isom said.
- PUB DATE: 11/4/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KXAS-TV NBC 5 Fort Worth
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Posted: Nov 4, 2021
Mitch Hokanson was making noise on the side of Oasis Rd. and causing drivers to turn their cars around to see what he was creating. Hokanson was in the middle of carving a large fish out of wood with a chainsaw, and this is his twentieth year finetuning his craft.
Hokanson creates chainsaw wood art and said he was first taught skills from his artistic mom and learned woodcutting from his dad, but he is also has learned a lot on his own.
- PUB DATE: 11/4/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KRCR-TV ABC 7 Redding
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Posted: Nov 4, 2021
First responders across Massachusetts are warning residents to avoid a scam text message claiming to be running a t-shirt sale to benefit local fire departments.
The texts, fire officials say, impersonate the “friends of” groups of towns’ fire departments and offer limited edition t-shirts to support the firefighters.
- PUB DATE: 11/4/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Masslive.com
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Posted: Nov 4, 2021
Authorities are searching for a missing hunter who happens to be a Seattle Fire Chief.
His name is Jay Schreckengost, he's said to be in his late 50s, 6”2 and about 250 lbs. bald with blue eyes.
According to a Facebook post, Schreckengost was last seen on November 2nd, at 7:00am at the Oak Creek wildlife area Forest Road 1703- Mapping coordinates 46.
- PUB DATE: 11/4/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KIMA-TV CBS News Yakima
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Posted: Nov 4, 2021
A fire broke out in a three-story building on the 4200 block of University Way Northeast on Wednesday evening. The building houses restaurants A Burger Place, Noodle Nation, Thaiger Room, along with two stories of apartments.
The Seattle Fire Department (SFD) arrived on the scene at around 6:15 p.m, after receiving “multiple calls for flame and smoke visible from University Way,” according to SFD firefighter Mark Larson.
- PUB DATE: 11/3/2021 11:24:35 PM - SOURCE: The Daily (University of Washington)
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