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Posted: Sep 5, 2023

Step by step: First responders, residents honor 9/11 victims in Tennessee

VIDEO/PHOTOS: The memory of the victims of the September 11th, 2001 attacks was on the minds of dozens of people at AT&T Field in Chattanooga Monday morning. With a week before the 22nd remembrance of that dark day, first responders and the public climbed stairs in their memory. 2,977 people lost their lives in the 9/11 terrorist attack.
- PUB DATE: 9/5/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WTVC-TV ABC/FOX 9 Chattanooga
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Posted: Sep 5, 2023

Cowlitz Complex fires have burned nearly 700 acres in Gifford Pinchot National Forest

VIDEO: The Cowlitz Complex, a collection of 21 small, active wildfires burning in steep terrain in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest in a 20-mile radius around the small town of Randle, has burned 697 acres and is currently 5% contained, according to fire officials. A total of 469 personnel have been assigned to fighting the fires.
- PUB DATE: 9/5/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KGW-TV NBC 8 Portland
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Posted: Sep 5, 2023

Amid heavy smoke, wildfire crews across the state work without practical respirators

Smoke lingered in the heat as fire Capt. Jeff Wainwright sweltered near Hangman Valley outside Spokane this past June. Baking in his bunker gear on a wildfire assignment, he caught a whiff of himself and realized the smoke was sticking to the open pores of his skin. Back when he was a teen, Wainwright said, he wouldn’t have thought twice about being able to smell himself, but now at 53 with a family, it’s a different story.
- PUB DATE: 9/5/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Columbian
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Posted: Sep 5, 2023

Neighbors heartbroken following the death of 4 people in Seattle house fire

FOX 13 News spoke to the man who says he knows the four people killed following a house fire in Seattle's Wallingford neighborhood. Saturday morning, fire officials and police responded to a house on the corner of N 48th St and Whitman Ave N. Investigators say they found four people dead inside, including two adults, a child and a baby.
- PUB DATE: 9/5/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KCPQ-TV FOX 13 Tacoma
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Posted: Sep 1, 2023

At least two EVs catch fire in Florida after Idalia storm surge compromises batteries

VIDEO: State officials had been warning Florida residents about the threat posed by storm surge to electric vehicles since Monday, days before Hurricane Idalia made landfall. In the aftermath of the destructive storm, Pinellas officials report at least two incidents of electric vehicles combusting after their lithium-ion batteries were exposed to the saltwater.
- PUB DATE: 9/1/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WTVT-TV FOX 13 Tampa Bay
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