Fire Chief Brian Schaeffer said oftentimes firefighters respond to emotionally taxing, and heartbreaking calls, however, sometimes they get an odd call that can warm your heart. According to Fire Chief Brian Schaeffer, crews responded to Crestline and Bridgeport for a cat stuck in the engine bay of a car.
- PUB DATE: 10/13/2020 11:36:59 AM - SOURCE: KHQ-TV NBC 6 Spokane

The year 2020 will go down as one filled with many trials and tribulations. While the COVID-19 pandemic continued to affect nearly everyone, forest fires hitting close to home in Thurston County added to the losses many of us have already endured this year. Most of the summer’s horrific fires ravaged California and Oregon, but Washington was not spared the devastation.
- PUB DATE: 10/13/2020 6:03:09 AM - SOURCE: Thurston Talk

VIDEO: A Riverside family's Halloween decor is so realistic that multiple people have made emergency phone calls summoning firefighters to the home. To say Carmen and Travis Long love Halloween is an understatement. They began creating their "Pirates of the Caribbean"-themed creation three years ago.
- PUB DATE: 10/13/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KABC-TV ABC 7 News Los Angeles

VIDEO: In his 15 year career as a firefighter, Lt. Stephen Curry with Roanoke Fire-EMS has never seen anything like the fire that happened on Bullitt Avenue in southeast Roanoke over the weekend. A fire broke out around 5:45 on Saturday morning at a vacant house on the 700 block of Bullitt Avenue. As the fire burned through the structure, it started to collapse.
- PUB DATE: 10/13/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WSLS-TV NBC10 Roanoke

The first New Orleans firefighters were furloughed on Sunday under a plan requiring six unpaid days off by the end of the year to help stem a precipitous decline in city sales tax revenue during the coronavirus pandemic. The city’s furlough requires almost all 4,700 employees to take the six unpaid days, including police, firefighters and other safety workers, reducing their salaries by about 10% and saving the city $6 million.
- PUB DATE: 10/13/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Nola.com