VIDEO: New Mexico fire departments are looking to help protect their firefighters from getting cancer. The Bernalillo County Fire Department is now the first in the state to have fire engines built to help with that mission. BCFD said the number of firefighter deaths from cancer is increasing nationwide, in part, because of the exposure to carcinogens often left on their gear.
- PUB DATE: 1/25/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KRQE

Courtesy of Columbia Gas, the city of Lawrence will have an extra crew of firefighters on duty for at least the first two months of this year. The natural gas provider has agreed to pay for an extra, three-person engine company of firefighters for January and February 2019, Fire Chief Brian Moriarty announced Wednesday.
- PUB DATE: 1/25/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Eagle Tribune

VIDEO: Some first responders, who are used to 96-hour shifts and tasked with saving our homes during raging wildfires, got the experience of a lifetime Wednesday as the Los Angeles Dodgers hosted the everyday heroes for batting practice. Several hundred first responders were welcomed by the Dodgers organization as a show of appreciation for battling the recent wildfires in Southern California.
- PUB DATE: 1/25/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: NBC Los Angeles

No one was injured Wednesday afternoon in a house fire on Cornell Avenue in Yakima. The fire started in the bathroom, and a person inside the home – alerted by a smoke detector – attempted to extinguish it with flour, making it worse, Yakima Fire Department Shift Commander Jennifer Norton said. The resident was able to safely escape, and firefighters had the fire out by 3 p.
- PUB DATE: 1/24/2019 11:32:27 PM - SOURCE: Yakima Herald-Republic

No one was injured Wednesday afternoon in a house fire on Cornell Avenue in Yakima. The fire started in the bathroom, and a person inside the home – alerted by a smoke detector – attempted to extinguish it with flour, making it worse, Yakima Fire Department Shift Commander Jennifer Norton said. The resident was able to safely escape, and firefighters had the fire out by 3 p.
- PUB DATE: 1/24/2019 11:32:27 PM - SOURCE: Yakima Herald-Republic