Posted: Sep 26, 2018
Martin Pang, who set fire to a Seattle warehouse in 1995 in hopes of collecting an insurance payout — a blaze that killed four firefighters in the worst loss of life in the department’s history — will be released from prison on Thursday.
Pang, now 62, set fire to a frozen-food warehouse owned by his parents in the Chinatown International District on Jan.
- PUB DATE: 9/26/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Seattle Times
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Posted: Sep 26, 2018
Crawfordsville (IN) Fire Department 107-foot Ascendant aerial ladder quint. Enforcer cab and chassis; Detroit DD13 470-hp engine; Waterous CSU 2,000-gpm pump.
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Posted: Sep 25, 2018
Martin Pang, who set fire to a Seattle warehouse in 1995 in hopes of collecting an insurance payout — a blaze that killed four firefighters in the worst loss of life in the department’s history — will be released from prison on Thursday.
Pang, now 62, set fire to a frozen-food warehouse owned by his parents in the Chinatown International District on Jan.
- PUB DATE: 9/25/2018 5:37:13 PM - SOURCE: Seattle Times
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Posted: Sep 25, 2018
This morning at 10:42, emergency officials responded to a commercial structure fire at 1028 South Columbia Street in Wenatchee.
iFIBER ONE News was on scene only a few minutes after firefighters arrived to discover smoke emanating from the roof of the building. “The call came in as a commercial fire and first arriving units, the door was open and smoke was pouring out as well as coming out of the top vent, so we had a working fire for sure," said Chelan County Fire District 1 Deputy Chief Mike Burnett.
- PUB DATE: 9/25/2018 4:50:16 PM - SOURCE: iFiberOne
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Posted: Sep 25, 2018
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The Federal Emergency Management Agency awarded the Oregon Area Fire/EMS District a grant to retrofit the fire station's apparatus bay.
According to a release, $116,100 was awarded as part of the Assistance to Firefighters Grant program for fiscal year 2017. The release said the money will retrofit the fire station's apparatus bay with an emissions disposal system that will catch diesel emissions and send them outside.
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The award is under the operations and safety program, as vehicle emissions are considered a human carcinogen, according to the International Agency for Cancer Research.
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