The Oklahoma City (OK) Fire Department has unveiled Ladder 1. Watch the video below in which Major Paul Davis “provides a show-and-tell of this brand new, state-of-the-art piece of fire apparatus” that was recently placed in service at Fire Station 1.

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Ten Massachusetts fire departments have been awarded a total of $152,362.74 via the Department of Fire Services Fiscal Year 2021 Firefighter Safety Equipment Grant Program.

First, the Plymouth Fire Department will receive $25,995 for new safety equipment, according to a report on Patch.com. Also, fire departments in the communities of Berkley, Carver, Dighton, Marion, Onset, Raynham, Taunton, and Wareham will receive a total of $112,227.74, according to WickedLocal.com.

In addition, Burlington Fire will receive $14,140 in grants, according to MSN.com.

Firefighters rescued a resident from a house fire at an East Spokane home late Monday night. Reports of smoke and fire visible on the second floor of a residence on the 1900 block of East Sharp Avenue came in at about 10 p.m., according to a news release from the Spokane Fire Department. Police officers arrived and reported windows cracking with heavy smoke and fire.
- PUB DATE: 4/7/2021 1:10:53 AM - SOURCE: Spokane Spokesman-Review - Metered Site

VIDEO: An eight-alarm fire tore through an apartment building in Queens Tuesday afternoon, leaving 21 injured, including 16 firefighters, and displacing more than 200 residents. The fire broke out as four-alarm blaze on the top floor of the six-story building on 34th Avenue in Jackson Heights around 1 p.
- PUB DATE: 4/7/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WABC-TV ABC 7 New York

Six firefighters lost their lives responding to a fire in a century-old, abandoned warehouse in Worcester, Massachusetts, in December 1999. Worried that civilians were trapped inside, rescue teams initiated a rapid intervention; but, unfamiliar with the layout of the building, the smoke-filled warehouse became a labyrinth for those that entered.
- PUB DATE: 4/7/2021 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Homeland Security Today