PHOTOS: After somehow getting all the way to Alaska, a piece of Morris Plains Fire Department gear is finally home. Some older items recently returned to the department, including a helmet found at a transportation museum in Anchorage. The Morris Plains Fire Department isn't sure how it ended up in Alaska, but now it's back.
- PUB DATE: 6/15/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Morristown Patch

As a fire continues to burn at a chemical plant in suburban Rockton, Kirk Wilson, chief of the Rockton Fire Protection District, says that firefighters stopped putting water on the fire, fearing that water run-off could carry chemicals into the nearby Rock River. “We stopped some of the water suppression and some of the fire suppression, and we went ahead and let the product burn off due to the fact that the Rock River sits just west of Chemtool, (approximately) 500 yards away,” he said.
- PUB DATE: 6/15/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WMAQ-TV NBC 5 Chicago

The Delaware General Assembly is aiming to help with what volunteer fire departments say is a struggle to get new members. A task force has come up with ten new recommendations and new programs to attract and retain more volunteer firefighters. Among those recommendations, develop a recruitment and retention training class at the Delaware State Fire School, and establish an program that would assign full-time members to companies in all three counties.
- PUB DATE: 6/15/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WMDT-TV ABC/CW+ 47 Salisbury

Fire crews say one person is still unaccounted for after a suspicious fire tore through the old Brownstown Tavern. The fire ignited overnight Saturday with crews called to the building near the intersection of Branch Rd and Brownstown Rd west of Harrah at 4:40 a.m. The owner, Tim Catilleja had testified in a federal trial against Jordan Stevens this past week; Stevens is accused of killing a woman in Toppenish in 2019.
- PUB DATE: 6/15/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KIMA-TV CBS/CW+ 29 Yakima

A man and woman were found dead early Monday after a fire at a Seattle homeless camp, emergency officials said. Crews responded to the scene, in the 3000 block of 25th Avenue South, at around 3 a.m. after receiving reports of smoke and flames at the encampment, said Kristin Tinsley of the Seattle Fire Department.
- PUB DATE: 6/14/2021 3:13:59 PM - SOURCE: KOMO-TV ABC 4 Seattle