PHOTOS: On a hot September day in Texas Hill Country, the fire picked up, its flames popping the Jeep’s burning tires and airbags like plastic chip bags. Thirty or 40 feet away, a crew of firefighters, law enforcement, and forensic anthropologists watched the burning wreckage from the safety of a white canopy, while a firefighter in full protective gear waited, his hose at the ready.
- PUB DATE: 12/19/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: UNDARK

VIDEO: Two Grand Rapids firefighters are being credited for finding a case of human trafficking while attending a conference in Traverse City. Battalion Chief Ed Brayman and Equipment Operator Nate Bazen were at an EMS instructor conference in March when they saw a woman who needed their help. “It was much like today.
- PUB DATE: 12/19/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WOOD-TV NBC 8 Grand Rapids

A creative holiday-themed video by the Red Wing Fire Department has officially gone viral. As of Monday, December 18, the Facebook video has been seen more than 2.1 million times.
- PUB DATE: 12/19/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Republican Eagle

VIDEO: It's been nearly four months since two separate wildfires ripped through Spokane County, displacing hundreds of families and forever changing local communities. The Spokane Fire Department, in partnership with the Department of Natural Resources, has been conducting fuels reduction around the county, saying it's made a difference even with the two major fires.
- PUB DATE: 12/19/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KXLY-TV ABC 4 Spokane

A man who had a heart attack recently was reunited with the Seattle Fire Department responders who saved his life. After Mark Staveley suffered from “sudden cardiac arrest,” firefighter/EMTs and paramedics were able to quickly arrive at the scene and give him the emergency treatment he needed to survive.
- PUB DATE: 12/19/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KIRO-TV CBS 7 Seattle