Firefighters from all over southeast Iowa came out to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Mt. Pleasant Fire Department and 50th anniversary of the Henry County Fire Department on Saturday, May 11, with an open house and training session. The department brought in a simulation and training trailer from the Fire Service Training Bureau to train firefighters and inform the public about the kinds of training the firefighters have to do.
- PUB DATE: 5/14/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Mt. Pleasant News

Kristi Walters said her husband David endured many “close calls” in his two decades as a Dallas firefighter. But David Walters, 49, last year didn't die at a blaze or a car-wreck scene or at the fire station; he collapsed suddenly after playing a little football with his family the day after Thanksgiving.
- PUB DATE: 5/14/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Dallas News

The Payson Town Council last week voted against merging the Payson, Hellsgate and Houston Mesa fire departments. Officials negotiated the merger for two years, which won overwhelming support from firefighters. The departments spent thousands on a consultant, which concluded a merger would save money, not require a tax increase and improve services.
- PUB DATE: 5/14/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Payson Roundup

It was a very early Saturday morning in November 1986, when Dan Sullivan said he arrived on the scene of his first fire as a new Quincy firefighter. And it was a bad one. The blaze was a two-alarm fire at a single family home in North Quincy at 28 Milton Road. When firefighters arrived, a mother and her newborn daughter were trapped inside the house.
- PUB DATE: 5/14/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Patriot Ledger

A man was extricated from his vehicle after it was heavily damaged in a crash near Orondo early Tuesday morning. Orondo Fire, Ballard Ambulance and Washington State Patrol responded to the report of a car crash about a mile south of Orondo on US-97 just after midnight Tuesday. Crews arriving found a heavily-damaged vehicle blocking the highway.
- PUB DATE: 5/14/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KHQ-TV NBC 6