A man was found critically injured after a fire broke out inside a home in south Capitol Hill Wednesday evening. The fire was reported just before 7 p.m. in the 2100 block of East Denny Way, according to Seattle Fire officials. Firefighters arrived to find dark smoke surround the home. Crews discovered a 40-year-old man unconscious in a room next where the fire was burning but couldn't reach him without sawing a hole in the wall, officials said.
- PUB DATE: 12/3/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KOMO-TV ABC 4 Seattle

Crews responded to a fire at the Inland Empire Paper Company in Millwood on Wednesday night. No sprinklers were activated when the fire sparked, so around four to five company employees attempted to fight the flames until Spokane firefighters arrived. Before those crews could knock down the fire, employees shut down the facility’s surrounding high-voltage electrical equipment.
- PUB DATE: 12/3/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KXLY-TV ABC 4 Spokane

The United States has had its most devastating wildfire season on record, with more than 8 million acres of land burned across the country this year. Regenerating the forests that sat on much of that land would ordinarily take years and involve hundreds of people manually replanting saplings grown in dedicated nurseries.
- PUB DATE: 12/3/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KITV-TV ABC 4 Honolulu

The CDC's immunization advisory panel voted Tuesday to first give the COVID-19 vaccine to health care personnel and long-term care facility residents. Some firefighters feel they should have been included in that list. “I think it’s not the correct decision," Prince George's County firefighter and paramedic Theresa Alexander said.
- PUB DATE: 12/2/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WUSA-TV CBS 9 Washington DC

VIDEO: A former volunteer firefighter from Long Island just won big on ABC's "Shark Tank" for her new fitness device, which was inspired by her time as a firefighter. Sarah Apgar, of Port Washington, is the creator of Fitfighter and the Steel Hose. When Apgar joined the Halesite Volunteer Fire Department in 2012, she noticed the firehouse didn't have a structured strength training program.
- PUB DATE: 12/2/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WABC-TV ABC 7 New York