VIDEO: Governor Kathy Hochul announced that there will be a new program designed to strengthen New York State's volunteer firefighter services. The first training stipend of $10 million will offset the costs of training courses that firefighters are required to complete. “Volunteer firefighters put their lives on the line to protect those in their communities, and it is time that we recognize and compensate them for the work that they have done,” Governor Hochul said.
- PUB DATE: 3/7/2024 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WGRZ-TV NBC 2 Buffalo

Fifteen people were killed in fires in the first two months of 2024 in Connecticut, making it the most deadly start to the year in at least a decade, according to data from state fire officials. “A couple of years, we’ve had starts like this,” said Roger Nelson, a Bloomfield fire marshal and vice president of the Connecticut Fire Marshals Association.
- PUB DATE: 3/7/2024 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: New Haven Register - Metered Site

PHOTOS: Travis Kelce and Jason Kelce are giving back. The brothers recently stepped out to visit Brookline Volunteer Fire Company in Havertown, Pennsylvania, after learning of a late man's fight with cancer. Jess Viola tells ET that the NFL stars visited the fire station, at which her husband and father-in-law are both members, in the wake of her brother-in-law, Brendan McDermott's, death.
- PUB DATE: 3/7/2024 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Entertainment Tonight

VIDEO/PHOTOS: A small plane equipped with a parachute came down in the Newport Hills neighborhood in Bellevue Tuesday afternoon. Officials said the plane left Renton on a training flight at around 5 p.m. and then went down in the 6500 block of 127th Avenue Southeast after its engine failed minutes later.
- PUB DATE: 3/7/2024 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KIRO-TV CBS 7 Seattle

Samish Island residents and Puget Sound Energy staff gathered Tuesday to celebrate a recently-installed solar panel and battery system at the Samish Island fire station. Samish Island resident Bob Pavia first took on the project in 2018. Spurred by the idea of finding a way to support the fire station in case of an emergency or power outage, Pavia reached out to Skagit County Fire District 5, which operates the station, and Puget Sound Energy for a solution.
- PUB DATE: 3/7/2024 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Skagit Valley Herald