An early morning fire Monday destroyed a home and a fifth wheel trailer on Sea Home Road on the Toandos Peninsula. Quilcene Fire Chief Tim McKern said the two residents escaped the blaze without injury. Quilcene firefighters were called to the fire just after 7 a.m. Oct. 18. "It was fully involved by the time we got there," McKern said.
- PUB DATE: 10/21/2021 1:01:59 AM - SOURCE: Port Townsend Leader

Over the past year, the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) has been celebrating quite the milestone: 125 years of protecting people and property. NFPA understands that not many businesses get to celebrate a milestone quite this large, and acknowledges that they did not get to this place alone.
- PUB DATE: 10/21/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Occupational Health & Safety

During a flight over New Jersey on May 6, 1937, the enormous German airship Hindenburg suddenly engulfed in flames while attempting to dock with its mooring tower. The airship plummeted to the ground in front of terrified onlookers, and in the 32 seconds it took for the zeppelin to be entirely incinerated, 35 people on the airship and one member of the ground crew died.
- PUB DATE: 10/21/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Interesting Engineering

Ambulance providers in North Texas are rethinking the way they respond to calls, as pandemic-related staffing shortages leave agencies around the United States strapped for paramedics. Arlington Fire Chief Don Crowson said his department is sending fire paramedics to compensate for shortages with American Medical Response, the city’s ambulance provider, where staffing is down two-thirds.
- PUB DATE: 10/21/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Fort Worth Star-Telegram - Metered Site

It’s a late-September morning and paramedic Darren Forman steps up to a front door showered with dried corn stalks and fall-themed decor. Forman, holding a bag in one hand and a scale in the other, has arrived for his second appointment of the day. Forman has run Project Swaddle for the Crawfordsville Fire Department since its launch in 2018.
- PUB DATE: 10/21/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: National Public Radio Indianapolis