Local firefighters are preparing to run up 69 flights of stairs to fight cancer. The Spokane County Fire District Eight team practiced on a stair climbing machine in a South Hill parking lot on Saturday to raise awareness and money for the challenge. The Firefighter Stairclimb challenge takes place in Seattle, and is a fundraiser for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.
- PUB DATE: 2/22/2020 8:57:15 PM - SOURCE: KHQ-TV NBC 6

A Kelso couple lost their home to a house fire Friday while they were out at a doctor’s appointment, according to firefighters. Cowlitz 2 Fire & Rescue and Cowlitz County Fire District 5 responded to the fire around 3:15 p.m. Friday. Neighbors and a school bus driver reported the blaze in the 300 block of Ross Road in Kelso.
- PUB DATE: 2/22/2020 6:37:00 PM - SOURCE: Longview Daily News

An overpass was set aflame after a semitrailer hauling thousands of gallons of fuel overturned in Indianapolis on Wednesday. The tanker hit a guardrail on an on-ramp from Interstate 465 to I-70, which split the tank and overturned the semi, according to the Indianapolis Fire Department. Witnesses told the fire department that the driver of the truck exited the tanker on his own with his clothes on fire.
- PUB DATE: 2/21/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: NBC News

For FDNY Firefighter Robert Thomas and his three sons, fighting fires and saving lives has become a family affair. All four are city firefighters stationed throughout Brooklyn, joining a growing number of the department’s black “legacy” families, where children follow their mothers and fathers into the FDNY.
- PUB DATE: 2/21/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: New York Daily News - Metered Site

The Milwaukee Fire Department is already in training for a building that hasn't broken ground yet. Ascent, an apartment building near downtown Milwaukee expected to break ground in a few months, has a tall timber frame. At 25-stories, it is expected to be the tallest building of it's kind in the world.
- PUB DATE: 2/21/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WDJT-TV CBS 58 Milwaukee