VIDEO: After making landfall Wednesday night near Siesta Key, Hurricane Milton is moving off the east coast of Florida while continuing to produce damaging winds and life-threatening floods Thursday morning. Even before Milton made landfall as a powerful Category 3 storm, outer bands from the system washed over the state Wednesday morning, sparking up tornadoes and giving residents an idea of the wrath Milton packed.
- PUB DATE: 10/10/2024 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WESH-TV NBC 2 Daytona Beach

The Seattle Fire Department (SFD) is expanding its Buprenorphine Pilot Program and Seattle will be the first city in the nation with a program for firefighters/emergency medical technicians (EMTs) to administer the medicine in the field. SFD paramedics began administering the drug earlier this year, and now an initial group of firefighter/EMTs will be trained as well.
- PUB DATE: 10/10/2024 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Seattle Office of the Mayor

Gig Harbor Fire and Medic One reached a milestone on Tuesday, Oct. 8, when it ceremonially broke ground on construction of a new live-fire training center. Another milestone is just around the corner. The department expects renovation work on two of its fire stations — Station 53 on Fox Island and Station 57 on Crescent Valley Drive — to wrap up in the coming weeks.
- PUB DATE: 10/10/2024 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Gig Harbor Now

Firefighters were dispatched to an unoccupied house that caught on fire in Spokane Valley early Wednesday. According to the Spokane Valley Fire Department, the blaze was quickly controlled, and no injuries have been reported. Fire officials stated that the majority of the damage is concentrated at the back of home at 4900 block of North Evergreen Road.
- PUB DATE: 10/10/2024 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KHQ-TV NBC 6 Spokane

SEAGRAVE—Arundel Volunteer Fire Department, Gambrills, MD, rescue. Attacker stainless steel tilting cab and chassis; Cummins X12 500-hp engine; 26-foot walk-in rescue body; Onan Protec 35-kW generator. Dealer: Tim Massey, Chesapeake Fire Apparatus, Pasadena, MD. (Photo by Patrick Shoop, Jr.)

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