A home in Salmon Creek went up in flames early Wednesday morning, but fortunately no one was injured. According to Clark County Fire District 6, firefighters from its district and Vancouver Fire responded at 2:40 a.m. to a house on fire near the intersection of Northwest 142nd Way and Northwest 29th Avenue.
- PUB DATE: 12/16/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KPTV FOX 12 Portland

A structure fire is burning on the 1100 block of East Boone in Spokane Valley. East Boone is blocked by first responders Firefighters say a 2 story duplex caught fire. The fire started on the back porch and then moved inside and caught the home one fire. Four adults, one child and one cat lived in the home.
- PUB DATE: 12/15/2020 6:54:16 PM - SOURCE: KHQ-TV NBC 6 Spokane

An elaborate ornamental frame encloses a dramatic scene of everyday life in mid eighteenth-century New York: in the image we witness a volunteer company laboring to extinguish a fire at an unidentified location. Without access to the sorts of hydrants that are a common feature of today’s cityscape, a line of men passes buckets of water from hand to hand, a team effort that is memorialized both in the name of the company (Hand-in-Hand Fire Company) and in the emblem of a disembodied handshake that graces the top of the frame.
- PUB DATE: 12/15/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Gothamist

As a boy, Robert Weber chased the blazing lights and roaring sirens of fire engines down the streets of Brooklyn, New York. He hung out at the Engine 247 firehouse, eating ham heroes with extra mayonnaise, and “learning everything about everything to be the best firefighter in the world,” said his wife, Daniellle Weber, who grew up next door.
- PUB DATE: 12/15/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Kaiser Health News

VIDEO: It was a hot weekend for local firefighters. City and county crews were dispatched to dozens of fires all over Kern. Those fires cost families their homes and local business owners, their livelihoods. The Rea family was sound asleep as this fire engulfed their home on Franklin Avenue in East Bakersfield.
- PUB DATE: 12/15/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KGET-TV NBC/CW+ Bakersfield