VIDEO: The Knoxville Fire Department was one of many agencies that responded to CMC Recycling last week, working to clear more than 200 sticks of dynamite from a steel box. Now, after the event, KFD personnel are recounting what happened. “It’s very rare for something like this to happen. In the time I’ve been on the fire department, I don’t know if I’ve ever had a situation quite like this,” KPD Assistant Chief Mark Wilbanks said.
- PUB DATE: 10/15/2024 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WVLT-TV CBS/MyNetworkTV 8 Knoxville

Restart A Heart Day will be recognized on October 16th worldwide. It’s an initiative to raise awareness about the importance of bystander CPR, with hopes to increase the number of people who know CPR. “There are more than 300,000 cardiac deaths per year and we really want to make sure that we are increasing survival.
- PUB DATE: 10/15/2024 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WLTX-TV CBS 19 Columbia

VIDEO: A man, woman and child narrowly evaded a seemingly random fiery explosion in Burien Friday, Oct. 11, while driving on 116th Street around 5:30 p.m. John Richards, who is well-known in western Washington as a radio DJ for KEXP's morning show, told KING 5 that he and his child had just picked up his wife from the airport and were driving home to West Seattle when a ball fell onto the road.
- PUB DATE: 10/15/2024 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KING-TV NBC 5 Seattle

The Department of Ecology is developing a plan for how to extinguish an underground landfill fire that's been burning since the Gray Fire in August 2023. The landfill is at the Eastern State Hospital Pine Lodge location. The state says buildings on the property were demolished and landfilled in approximately the 1950s 100 feet from the shoreline of West Medical Lake.
- PUB DATE: 10/15/2024 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KXLY-TV ABC 4 Spokane

DANKO—Bement (IL) Fire Protection District flatbed brush truck. Ford F-550 cab and chassis; Ford 7.3L 330-hp engine; Waterous 2515E 155-gpm pump; UPF Poly 500-gallon water tank; 12-gallon foam cell; Scotty 4171 around-the-pump single-agent foam system; front ground sweeps; TFT Tornado monitor. Dealer: Steve Garner, Garner Sales & Service, Cooksville, IL.

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