Posted: Jul 17, 2018
With flames bursting from all sides of a house in West Seattle early Tuesday morning, Seattle Fire crews called in a 2-alarm response to try to save the home, its occupants and nearby buildings.
Just before 2 a.m. Tuesday, firefighters were called to the 8600 block of Fauntlee Crest SW in the Fauntleroy neighborhood.
- PUB DATE: 7/17/2018 3:25:57 AM - SOURCE: KOMO-TV ABC 4 and Radio 1000
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Posted: Jul 17, 2018
It’s a symbol of firefighters, superheroes and dancers.
But the pole has all but vanished from most fire stations these days.
What’s up with that?
Taking the steps is safer.
The 20-foot sliding pole at Everett Fire Department Station 1 on Rucker Avenue is the last one standing in the city’s six firehouses.
- PUB DATE: 7/17/2018 12:00:04 AM - SOURCE: Everett Herald - Metered Site
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Posted: Jul 17, 2018
Emotional testimony capped the first day Monday in the arson and murder trial of a woman accused of setting the fire that killed Kansas City firefighters John Mesh and Larry Leggio.
Capt. Steve Davis remembers instructing firefighter Leggio to pull a fan out of a window facing the alley so they could throw more water at the fire within.
- PUB DATE: 7/17/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Kansas City Star
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Posted: Jul 17, 2018
Crews on Monday extracted the body of a firefighter from a steep ravine that his bulldozer had rolled into days ago as he fought a wildfire west of Yosemite.
The body of 36-year-old Braden Varney, a 10-year-veteran with the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, remained in a mesh of mangled metal for three days in a site near El Portal that was too remote for bulldozers and too precarious to allow an immediate extraction.
- PUB DATE: 7/17/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: SFGate.com
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Posted: Jul 17, 2018
TargetSolutions, a Vector Solutions brand offering the leading operations and training management software for the fire service, and the International Association of Fire Chief’s (IAFC) Volunteer & Combination Officers Section (VCOS) are proud to announce Deputy Chief Josh Blum, of Loveland-Symmes (Ohio) Fire Department (LSFD), as the recipient of the 2018 VCOS Training Officer Recognition Award.
- PUB DATE: 7/17/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Firehouse
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