A recent report on the Durham Fire Department’s response to the April 10 gas explosion downtown could bolster the department’s request for 75 more firefighters. The Fire Department has about 385 people who fight fires. Having more would improve response times and on-scene efficiency, reducing injuries and property loss, according to a presentation the department gave the city in March, about a month before the explosion.
- PUB DATE: 11/19/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The News & Observer

Corporations can be held legally responsible for the state’s costs in investigating and fighting fires that are carelessly started or spread by corporate employees, a state appeals court ruled Monday. There has been no dispute that corporations can be required to pay compensation for deaths, injuries and property damage from fires caused by their employees, the source of at least $18 billion of the debt that drove Pacific Gas and Electric Co.
- PUB DATE: 11/19/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle - Metered Site

Capt. Shawn Campana needed an escape. The stress and pressures of working in Miami-Dade Fire Rescue were beginning to weigh on her. Enter Charlie, a 3-year-old Greyhound she adopted in 2015. “There’s light again,” Campana said of Charlie, “and there hasn’t been in some time. He was the only thing that made that happen.
- PUB DATE: 11/19/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Miami Herald

Today Benton County Fire District 4 celebrated the groundbreaking for its newest station. The new station will be built on two-acres of land on Keen Road in West Richland. It is part of a bond voters in Benton County Fire District 4 approved back in 2018 which will equip the station and purchase replacement emergency apparatus.
- PUB DATE: 11/18/2019 4:37:53 PM - SOURCE: KEPR-TV CBS 19

A fire destroyed a chicken coop at a Ridgefield home Monday morning, according to Clark County Fire and Rescue. Firefighters were dispatched at 10:31 a.m. to 802 S. Shobert St., for a report of a shop or barn fire. The first engine to arrive reported a 10-by-10 foot outbuilding, with flames extending from the structure and threatening a home about 15 feet away, according to the scanner.
- PUB DATE: 11/18/2019 11:11:30 AM - SOURCE: Vancouver Columbian - Metered Site