Firefighters felt the heat over the weekend as they trained in a house on Garling Road that was donated to Clallam County Fire District No. 2. “This gives us the opportunity to see real fire inside a real structure and see how it behaves, and the crews get a good experience pulling attack lines and going in to put out the fire,” said Jake Patterson, deputy chief of operations for Fire District No.
- PUB DATE: 5/7/2018 1:48:01 AM - SOURCE: Port Angeles Peninsula Daily News

The Westbrook fire chief and deputy fire chief are suing the city, alleging the mayor retaliated against them for raising legal and safety concerns in their department. The lawsuit details months of tension beginning last year between Mayor Mike Sanphy and the top two officials in the Westbrook Fire Department.
- PUB DATE: 5/7/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Portland Press Herald

A three-alarm warehouse fire in Houston's East End scorched at least one nearby home and led to the hospitalization of a firefighter. Firefighters were called out to a warehouse fire on North Drennan Street near Navigation Boulevard shortly after 7 p.m. Friday, according to Houston Fire Chief Samuel Peña.
- PUB DATE: 5/7/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Houston Chronicle

Growing eruptions in the Big Island's Leilani Estates on Sunday night prompted officials to issue an emergency alert urging any residents remaining in the lava-ravaged subdivision to "go now" and stoking fears that the toll of homes claimed by lava — at 26 so far — would undoubtedly grow. The alert went out to smartphones across the Big Island at 7 p.
- PUB DATE: 5/7/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KHNL/KGMB-TV Hawaii News Now

It was just before Christmas, when Battalion Chief Chris Burger responded to a call of an unresponsive infant. With the sort of muscle memory training only thousands of hours of training can build, he went to the home and did his job. He was the helper — cool under pressure, someone you can lean on — that everyone expects a firefighter to be.
- PUB DATE: 5/7/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Panama City News Herald