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Posted: Jul 27, 2020

New York firefighter, EMT after near-fatal crash: ‘I’ll get better so I can help people again’

Ann Jerome got to see her son for a brief moment before he was flown to Syracuse with injuries critical enough to make his survival expectancy unclear. She was able to touch his hand, then hear him say he was sorry. It was around 4 p.m. on Tuesday when the Parishville Volunteer Fire Department was dispatched to a scene where a person was having difficulty breathing.
- PUB DATE: 7/27/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: NNY 360
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Posted: Jul 27, 2020

Woman thanks Indianapolis firefighters for saving her $20,000 prosthetic leg

PHOTOS: As the Indianapolis Fire Department was finishing a pre-planned training exercise Saturday on Geist Reservoir, conservationists with the Department of Natural Resources asked them to help search for a missing prosthetic leg. That leg belonged to Amy Gillum. Her family was out on their boat and when she went to take off her prosthetic leg to get in the water, it slipped and fell in.
- PUB DATE: 7/27/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WTHR-TV NBC 13 Indianapolis
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Posted: Jul 27, 2020

In the summer of 1910, fire was in the headlines for Washington State

Late-July 1910 saw the Harbor beset by fires, not particularly unusual during the summer in small timber towns. It was the massive holocaust in Hoquiam on July 22, 1910 that killed two and injured many more that held the headlines when the substantial, picturesque four-story Hotel Hoquiam was reduced to rubble in an early morning blaze.
- PUB DATE: 7/27/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Daily World
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Posted: Jul 27, 2020

Central Kitsap Fire and Rescue proposes bond to build new stations

Central Kitsap Fire and Rescue (CKFR) is preparing a bond that would allow for facilities improvements and new fire stations that could go to voters on the November 3 general election ballot. The bond, if approved by the district's commissioners on Monday and approved in the fall, would begin to be collected in spring of 2021.
- PUB DATE: 7/27/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Kitsap Sun
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Posted: Jul 27, 2020

Nearby Central Kitsap medics save toddler found floating in Dyes Inlet

A 13-month-old boy found Monday night floating in Dyes Inlet was revived by medics who happened to be nearby after being called to a neighbor's house. “It was a miracle,” said Ron Templeton, whose grandson Teddy has been checked by doctors and is doing fine. Kitsap County sheriff's deputies and medics from Central Kitsap Fire and Rescue had been called at about 8:30 p.
- PUB DATE: 7/27/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Kitsap Sun
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