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Posted: Jan 24, 2019

Video: Washington, D.C. Engine Company Number 3 Fire Station

This short video covers Washington, D.C., Engine 3's 100-year hold historic station. The station still retains original features like fire poles and a spiral staircase.

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Posted: Jan 24, 2019

Seattle pays record-breaking $65.7M to victim of ambulance crash

Seattle and its insurers have agreed to pay $65.75 million to the family of Brooke Taylor, an amount representing the largest individual personal injury settlement in the city’s history, likely the largest in Washington state and among the largest ever in the country. The sum covers ongoing care for Taylor, as well as lost future income, after she suffered a traumatic brain injury in a crash with a Seattle Fire Department ambulance in April 2016.
- PUB DATE: 1/24/2019 6:12:35 AM - SOURCE: Crosscut
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Posted: Jan 24, 2019

Seattle pays record-breaking $65.7M to victim of ambulance crash

Seattle and its insurers have agreed to pay $65.75 million to the family of Brooke Taylor, an amount representing the largest individual personal injury settlement in the city’s history, likely the largest in Washington state and among the largest ever in the country. The sum covers ongoing care for Taylor, as well as lost future income, after she suffered a traumatic brain injury in a crash with a Seattle Fire Department ambulance in April 2016.
- PUB DATE: 1/24/2019 6:12:35 AM - SOURCE: Crosscut
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Posted: Jan 24, 2019

Virginia firefighters win first round of annual battle over workers' compensation for cancer

Retired Richmond fire marshal David Creasy wasn’t among the firefighters from across Virginia who packed a Senate committee meeting Tuesday. But Creasy, who died in October after more than four years of battling cancer, was well represented in the annual legislative battle to extend workers’ compensation benefits automatically to firefighters and other first responders stricken by certain forms of cancer they say are caused by exposure to toxic chemicals in the line of duty.
- PUB DATE: 1/24/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Richmond Times-Dispatch
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Posted: Jan 24, 2019

Florida firefighters receive bullet resistant vests

VIDEO: Every riding member of the Jacksonville Fire Rescue Department is outfitted with a bullet resistant vest. In August fire crews were first on scene at the Landing when a gunman opened fire killing two people and injuring several others before turning the gun on himself. On Tuesday Chief Kurtis Wilson told Action News Jax the shooting made the department rethink safety protocol.
- PUB DATE: 1/24/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: CBS 47 Action News Jax
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