VIDEO: Authorities reported multiple injuries after a series of electrical explosions sent massive fireballs into the air Saturday night at a shopping and dining complex in Huntington Beach. Staff at the Old World German restaurant on Center Avenue noticed an odor coming from the underground electrical vault.
- PUB DATE: 10/7/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KABC-TV ABC 7 Los Angeles

The firehouse on John F. Kennedy Boulevard is just under a mile from Janice Pantano’s Central Avenue shore home, but on May 23, when Pantano called 911 to report her car on fire, it took 19 minutes before firefighters had begun spraying water at the scene. By the time the fire was put out, her car and her home were destroyed.
- PUB DATE: 10/7/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Press of Atlantic City

A Windsor family contacted environmental officials after they said they saw firefighting foam building up in their backyard brook. Connecticut health officials issued an alert immediately following a deadly vintage plane crash on Wednesday where the firefighting foam with PFAS may have made its way into the Farmington River and surrounding waterways.
- PUB DATE: 10/7/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WFSB-TV CBS 3 Hartford

Jeremy Snyder said he was inside his home on Northwest 1st Avenue in Kelso when he heard an eruption of flames outside. He looked out the kitchen window and saw the porch and his car on fire. "Probably one of the scariest moments that I've had in my life," said Snyder. "I was out of the house in three seconds.
- PUB DATE: 10/7/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KATU-TV ABC 2 Portland

In over 15 years under Joe Russell’s leadership, the Soap Lake Fire Department never lost a life. Now 92, Russell joined the department in the early ’60s. The fire chief at the time, K.R. “Rusty” Nolan, took Russell on as an assistant for a number of years, before Nolan grew sick and could no longer manage the volunteer fire department.
- PUB DATE: 10/6/2019 8:36:32 PM - SOURCE: Columbia Basin Herald - Metered Site