It all started after a furniture factory burned down. The factory, once located at the end of Putnam Street in the Chesterfield community, caught fire at a point when fire service was provided in the area by a joint effort from the city of Morganton, Oak Hill Fire and what later became Triple Community Fire Department, Chesterfield Fire Chief James Robinson said.
- PUB DATE: 6/3/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The News Herald

VIDEO: The St. Louis Fire Department is showing off its newest fire truck, all thanks to Ameren Missouri. The truck costs about $1 million dollars and it took 9 to 10 months to design and another to build. Ameren Missouri helped with the design and donated the truck to the fire department. St. Louis City has two to three significant underground every year that can burn for hours, which can extensive damage and outages.
- PUB DATE: 6/3/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KMOV-TV CBS 4 St. Louis

VIDEO/PHOTOS: Firefighters were able to return a woman's American flag from her apartment after losing her home to a 4-alarm fire in Myrtle Beach Wednesday morning. The flag was all she had left. It was emotional devastation for firefighters, and the people who stood watching the fire destroy their homes.
- PUB DATE: 6/3/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WPDE-TV ABC 15 Florence

Team Rubicon (TR), a veteran-led non-profit disaster response organization, is deploying 40 veterans and volunteers to Malden and Pine Creek to help with fire-mitigation ahead of the 2021 fire season. The group is responding to calls for help from Whitman County officials to remove thousands of dead trees left in the wake of last years devastating fire.
- PUB DATE: 6/3/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KHQ-TV NBC 6 Spokane

The Palm Coast Fire Department hosted a ceremony in which they dedicated a new ladder truck in memory of Marine Sergeant Zachary J. Walters, reports FlaglerLive.com.

The city posted to Facebook, “The Fire Department took delivery of a 2021- E-One Cyclone 100’ Ladder Truck earlier this year. The Ladder Truck will be placed into front line service offering additional fire protection for all of Flagler County. Sgt. Walters was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, Marine Expeditionary Force based out of Camp Lejeune. Sgt. Walters and a fellow marine were killed on June 8, 2010 while on patrol in the Helmand Province of Afghanistan.

He was a graduate of Flagler Palm Coast (FPC) High School, Class of 2005.Zachary got his start in the Junior ROTC Program while at FPC. The day after graduation, at age 19, he joined the Marine. He was laid to rest with full military honors at Dallas Fort Worth National Cemetery.Firefighter-Paramedic Christopher Strozier, who is a Navy Veteran, proposed to dedication idea. Strozier stated, “We often forget why we have the rights and freedoms we do. Dedicating the fire engine to the memory of a Gold Star Family is a small way to show our appreciation for what they have sacrificed.

The Fire Department plans to dedicate a Fire Engine annually to a local Gold Star Recipient. Sergeant Walters’ mother, Regina Walters, and grandmother, Lorie Minor, were on hand to unveil the Ladder Truck’s dedication.”