VIDEO: More than two dozen people are homeless after a 3-alarm fire at an apartment complex in New Orleans’ Central City area Monday night. The New Orleans Fire Department said the fire was reported around 8:38 p.m. at a two-story U shaped apartment complex in the 1600 block of Washington Avenue. Firefighters arriving at the scene found the building heavily involved in flames.
- PUB DATE: 9/1/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WWL-TV CBS 4 New Orleans

A pandemic of the novel coronavirus has now killed more than 847,000 people worldwide. Over 25.3 million people across the globe have been diagnosed with COVID-19, the disease caused by the new respiratory virus, according to data compiled by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University.
- PUB DATE: 9/1/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: ABC News

The Rochester Fire Department is expecting to welcome the largest minority group of new firefighters to its ranks during a graduation ceremony at 10 a.m. Sept. 2. Of the 30 recruits on schedule to graduate, 13 are Black, 9 are Latino and one is Asian. Two are female, including one Latina. The minority candidates comprise about 80 percent of the class.
- PUB DATE: 9/1/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Rochester La Voz

Multiple fire departments responded to a fully-involved barn fire in the Duluth area west of Battle Ground, with two goats who were inside dead, Clark County Fire & Rescue reported Monday. Shortly before 7 a.m. Aug. 31 CCFR was dispatched to the 2000 block of Northeast 209th Street to find a two-story barn/shop burning.
- PUB DATE: 9/1/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Reflector - Metered Site

Grant County Fire Marshal Bruce Gribble says someone set 220 large hay bales on fire just west of Moses Lake early Monday. Gribble says the fire started at 3:20 a.m. on Hiawatha Rd. north of I-90 near Road 3 NE. Gribble says the blaze was not caused by spontaneous combustion, but was set alight on purpose.
- PUB DATE: 8/31/2020 11:40:51 AM - SOURCE: iFiberOne