About a dozen local firefighters are about to embark on a long journey to mark the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. “We got 42 days until 9/11,” said Batt. Chief Buck Buchanan, a retired LA County firefighter. “I’d really like to see a groundswell of patriotism come back.” Buchanan helped organize the cross country bike ride that got underway Sunday at the Santa Monica Pier and was expected to take 40 days to reach New York.
- PUB DATE: 8/2/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KCAL-TV CBS 2 Los Angeles

PHOTOS: The rambling stone clubhouse at Elks Country Club along the Kankakee River northeast of Aroma Park was engulfed by flames on the morning of Dec. 5, 1968. Ironically, the building was destroyed less than 24 hours after serving as the site of a banquet honoring the man who had been the club’s golf pro for the preceding 20 years.
- PUB DATE: 8/2/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Daily Journal - Metered Site

Firefighters doused the blaze before it tore through the rest of the building, but the damage was done. The Violet Street apartment fire late Tuesday drove 10 people — six of them children — out of house and home. A few days later, another apartment erupted in flames. This time, a few miles northward, just off Plank Road and south of Highway 190 in Baton Rouge, where firefighters again beat it back before it could spread and before it could hurt anyone.
- PUB DATE: 8/2/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Advocate

The term "hero"‘ is a well-worn term these days, but the final actions of Firefighter Thomas Royds seem to fit the bill. As an alleged drunk driver hurdled towards first responders at the scene of an auto accident on Interstate 76 in Lower Merion early on the morning of July 24 Royds, covering a shift at Belmont Hills Fire Co.
- PUB DATE: 8/2/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Mainline Media News

Sam Yam was working overnight at his donut shop, Dockside Donuts, baking away and getting ready for the morning rush of folks wanting their jelly-filled fix. It was about 5:30 in the morning when a customer in the drive-thru made him aware of what was happening just feet from his store. “I said, 'what’s going on?'" Yam said.
- PUB DATE: 8/2/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KOMO-TV ABC 4 Seattle