PHOTOS: Flying Apache attack helicopters in Iraq and Afghanistan prepared Tim Cherwin for his current job. The foe might be different but sometimes it's just as dangerous battling forest fires in a twin-engine turboprop plane. War zones and forest fires in the western United States — which Cherwin has fought from the air for the past five years — offer similar challenges: mountainous terrain, low altitude flying, extreme heat, rapidly changing weather conditions and endangered lives.
- PUB DATE: 7/29/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

It was a monster of a fire that threatened a number of nearby structures and endangered the lives of scores of firefighters when flames consumed the R.S. Fought and Sons Feed Mill at Walnut and Railroad streets forty years ago. “The flames were going a hundred feet into the air,” Gene Cahn remembered during a recent interview at the borough’s firehouse.
- PUB DATE: 7/29/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Williamsport Sun-Gazette

The town’s fire department is changing up how it responds to emergencies. With the addition of an ambulance called “Aid 1” — also known as a QRU or quick response unit — the Twin Falls Fire Department is working toward implementing a tiered response approach similar to those used in larger cities, according to Fire Chief Les Kenworthy.
- PUB DATE: 7/29/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Times-News

Tim Olk took this photo of a Snorkel aerial built on a Ford cab and chassis.

The Left Hand Fire, burning roughly 17 miles northwest of Naches, more than doubled in size Saturday. Strong winds drove the fire’s southern and eastern flanks. Firefighters had success in establishing containment lines on the west flank to keep it on the ridge above the State Route 410 corridor. A Sunday morning update from the U.
- PUB DATE: 7/28/2019 9:38:25 PM - SOURCE: KPQ-AM 560