The Pullman Fire Department held a practice physical test Saturday morning for candidates interested in the Reserve Firefighter Program. “I’m really interested in the medical side of EMS and fire because it’s 80 percent of what firefighters do,” said Finley Harrison, freshman biology major who is trying out for the reserve program.
- PUB DATE: 9/9/2019 12:37:19 AM - SOURCE: Daily Evergreen

The children of FDNY firefighters who perished on 9/11 are blossoming into a new generation of Bravest. On the eve of the 18th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks, the current FDNY Academy class, set to graduate in two weeks, includes 13 members — 12 men and one woman — whose firefighter fathers were murdered on 9/11, The Post has learned.
- PUB DATE: 9/9/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: New York Post

VIDEO: A Northeast Mississippi fire department is hoping to douse the competition as they run for the top spot on a CBS show. When the Booneville Fire Department completed the lip sync challenge one year ago, they knew they had a great video, but they didn’t realize it would have a national audience.
- PUB DATE: 9/9/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WCBI-TV CBS 6 Columbus

In 1999, José Troncoso had an idea. It came while the veteran Portland firefighter was in Guadalajara, Mexico. The capital of the Mexican state of Jalisco, Guadalajara has been one of Portland’s sister cities since 1983. As part of that sister-city relationship, Portland was donating a fire engine to the Guadalajara Fire Department at the time.
- PUB DATE: 9/9/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Oregon Public Broadcasting

East Peoria Fire Chief John Knapp expertly pitched the need for a new fire truck at this week’s City Council meeting. What he got in return was not the familiar response the fire department is more accustomed to. The City Council said no. “What I take away from that vote is that I didn’t get done what needed to get done to make the case that needed to be made,” Knapp said a couple days after last Tuesday council meeting.
- PUB DATE: 9/9/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Journal Star