Medix Ambulances is celebrating EMS Week, May 17-23, 2026, with daily giveaways to honor first responders, emphasizing the theme “Improving Outcomes, Together” to enhance patient care.

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Woodbury is renovating its Public Safety Campus, expanding from 40,000 to 120,000 square feet.

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With both Andy and Bill teaching hands-on and classroom sessions, their reflections offer valuable lessons for firefighters and instructors involved in rural water supply operations.

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A firefighter was hurt Sunday morning while responding to a quick-moving fire at an office supply store in downtown Los Angeles.

The blaze was reported at about 4:40 a.m. near the intersection of Hope Street and Pico Boulevard, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department.

Upon arrival, firefighters were met with heavy smoke and flames coming from the roof of the building. Due to the fire, a shelter-in-place was issued for surrounding residents and businesses.

No one was inside the building at the time of the fire, LAFD said. One firefighter reported minor injuries and was treated for those wounds. He is expected to be OK. Arson investigators are investigating what could have caused the fire.

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PHOTOS: Alan “Gus” Gustafson was on a mission.

The energetic 80-year-old strode through Kalispell’s Public Safety Building on a damp April morning, looking for the 2,200-pound bell that once hung from the Fire Department’s hose tower, ready to summon firefighters in an emergency.

The retired firefighter’s first stop was the first floor offices of the Kalispell Police Department. When that proved fruitless, he headed across the lobby, where he said the bell was once put on display, to question the staff at Kalispell Municipal Court. They couldn’t remember a bell either.

A few minutes and one flight of stairs later, Gustafson was in Fire Chief Jay Hagen’s office, asking if he knew of the bell’s whereabouts. Hagan shook his head. He did not.

“OK, I’m going to find it,” Gustafson replied. Hagen agreed that he would. “When he sets his mind to it, it’s going to happen,” Hagen said from behind his desk.

Gustafson, who still serves as the department’s historian, more than 20 years into his retirement, had a personal connection to the bell (he later located it around the corner at the Northwest Montana History Museum). Firefighters were still ringing it when he joined the department in 1971, just not for its original purpose.

“After I started, the bell was used to call curfew,” he said. “Every night at a certain time we would ring the bell.” The bell isn’t the only piece of the department’s history that Gustafson enjoys a personal connection with. The crown jewel of its historical collection, a 1925 American LaFrance fire engine, was still in service when he first donned turnout gear.

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