Orange flames were engulfing both sides of the multi-family home -- from the ground to the roof. And smoke was billowing into the air from the windows and the second-floor balcony, where four residents stood. The scene Friday morning on Kenwood Street was dire. Residents had no place to go -- their home was being taken over by flames and they couldn’t get to the front door.
- PUB DATE: 8/20/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Brockton Enterprise

A savage brawl between two warring groups of FDNY firefighters at a Bronx firehouse has sparked multiple investigations and shocked even hardened department brass, The Post has learned. More than a dozen members pummeled three rivals with punches and kicks to the head during the melee, sources said.
- PUB DATE: 8/20/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: New York Post

Two mobile homes were burned and other homes were threatened as two large brush fires burned in the South Sound Sunday, keeping firefighters across the region quite busy. The first fire began near Covington just after 4 p.m. when a witness spotted a fire in the 25000 block of 188th Ave. SE. Firefighters arrived to find a blaze moving toward a home and spreading into thick brush.
- PUB DATE: 8/20/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KOMO-TV ABC 4 and Radio 1000

The pumper is built on a Pierce Impel® cab and chassis. It features a Pierce PUC 1,500-gpm pump, a Husky™ 12 foam syatem, a 740-gallon water tank, and a 30-gallon foam tank. 

Fighting a wildfire like the 2,680-acre Miriam Fire near White Pass requires a lot of firefighters — and a lot of trucks and planes and helicopters — but it also requires a lot of cooks, a lot of portable toilets, a lot of medical personnel and a whole finance department. The White Pass Ski Area, from which the Miriam firefighting effort is coordinated, is closed for the summer, but it’s been abuzz with activity since a Type 2 fire incident management team was called in Aug.
- PUB DATE: 8/17/2018 10:13:21 PM - SOURCE: Yakima Herald-Republic