Fire crews put out a fire that ravaged a mobile home in Chattaroy. Officials say that just before 1 p.m., smoke and flames came out the back of the trailer. The people inside got out safely, but the trailer appears to be a total loss. The fire is under control, and for crews on-scene, the immediate goal was to contain the flames and keep them from spreading to the nearby brush.
- PUB DATE: 6/28/2021 2:13:41 PM - SOURCE: KXLY-TV ABC 4 Spokane

Dallas Fire Station No. 19 was demolished last year and construction to rebuild the facility is expected to begin soon, reports Advocate Magazine.

The fire station was damaged during storms in 2019.

DFD Station 19 sustained damage in today’s storms. Thankfully it has been closed for repairs and was unoccupied. pic.twitter.com/TU1ps5JPrh

— Dallas Fire Fighters (@DFFA58) June 17, 2019

The building is planned for 8,400 square feet and is expected to cost $4 million. Among its staff is an urban search and rescue team, one of the special operations functions of Dallas Fire-Rescue.

Best efforts from local firefighters helped prevent the further spread of a fire in a residential home on Saturday, but the homeowner is left to pick up the pieces of an estimated $170,000 in damages. According to a press release by the City of Walla Walla and the Walla Walla Fire Department, crews were dispatched to the home on the 1000-block of E.
- PUB DATE: 6/28/2021 12:42:05 PM - SOURCE: YakTriNews

Sunday’s sweeping brush fire that burned dangerously close to homes in Lind is believed to have been caused by a passing train. iFIBER ONE News spoke to Adams County Fire Chief Kevin Starring who says there had been some reports about a train car that had caught fire sending embers onto the surrounding area.
- PUB DATE: 6/28/2021 12:05:46 PM - SOURCE: iFiber One News Radio

By Alan M. Petrillo

The McAdoo (PA) Fire Company was in need of replacing a 1993 New Lexington tanker and a 2006 KME engine and decided to build a single new rig that could function as both engine and tanker. But then a light bulb went off overhead, and they chose to make the new vehicle a triple threat by adding battery-operated hydraulic tools to the mix to make the vehicle a pumper-tanker-rescue.

“McAdoo Fire Company merged with two other volunteer fire companies in 2016 into one entity,” says Bob Leshko, McAdoo’s chief. “We cover 130 square miles of rural and residential area with a large, seven-business industrial park, four warehouses in another industrial park, and another four warehouses, each of 1 million square feet, in the planning stages. The hydrants in our coverage area are on a gravity-fed system, so sometimes water is limited, which is why we wanted a big water tank on our new pumper-tanker-rescue.”

The vehicle McAdoo had KME build is on a Panther LFD chassis and cab with a 16-inch raised roof and a 3/16-inch-thick aluminum body, says Ryan Slane, KME’s Southeast region sales manager. “McAdoo is only 20 miles away from the KME factory in Pennsylvania, and the fire company said they needed a Swiss Army knife-type vehicle that could function as a pumper, tanker, and rescue. They wanted to do more with a single truck.” The vehicle is powered by a 450-horsepower (hp) Cummins L9 diesel engine, and an Allison 3000 EVS transmission, he notes, and has a wheelbase of 226 inches, an overall length of 34 feet 7 inches, and an overall height of 9 feet 10 inches.

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