FDNY hero Abraham Miller, on a roof six stories above a Manhattan street, heard the screams before spotting something through the flames and billowing smoke: A child’s tiny hand, extended from an apartment window. As a colleague lowered Miller down by hand with a rope, with the screams of other residents echoing through the darkness, the five-year veteran tried to put the 5-year-old girl at ease.
- PUB DATE: 6/2/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: New York Daily News - Metered Site

A Los Angeles County firefighter appeared to have a longstanding job-related dispute with the colleague he shot and killed at their small fire station in what became California’s second deadly workplace shooting in less than a week, authorities said Wednesday. The gunman also wounded a fire captain at the station about 45 miles (72 kilometers) north of Los Angeles on Tuesday before setting his house on fire in a nearby community and apparently killing himself, officials said.
- PUB DATE: 6/2/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KTLA-TV 5 CW Los Angeles

The driver of a boat on Moses Lake claims passengers on another boat harassed them and yelled gay slurs at them before the second boat caught fire over Memorial Day weekend. The incident on Sunday, May 30 was caught on camera and posted on TikTok. The TikTok went viral, with over one million likes.
- PUB DATE: 6/2/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KREM-TV CBS 2 Spokane

Warmer temperatures across much of Western Washington this week have ignited growing concerns among some firefighters about the threat that brush fires and wildfires could pose as the summer months near. Residents of one neighborhood near Bonney Lake were jolted Monday when a small brush fire broke out just below Highway 410, the same location impacted by a devastating wildfire last September during which several hundred acres of land between Bonney Lake and Sumner burned.
- PUB DATE: 6/2/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KOMO-TV ABC 4 Seattle

A renter who left his home for 20 minutes returned to a house on fire. No one was injured in the blaze in the 2100 block of West U.S. Highway 101 just south of William R. Fairchild International Airport, reported at 10:20 p.m. Monday, Jake Patterson, Clallam County Fire District 2 fire chief, said Tuesday morning.
- PUB DATE: 6/2/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Peninsula Daily News