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Posted: Jun 26, 2018

New York firefighters deliver pizza after driver gets into crash

PHOTO - Firefighters near Rochester, N.Y., weren't going to let a pizza customer go unsatisfied after the delivery driver got into a car crash. Engine 642 of the Henrietta Fire District, in West Henrietta, responded to the wreck Saturday afternoon, in which a pizza delivery employee was injured. "Once the patient was cared for and loaded into the ambulance the crew decided to finish the delivery so the pizza wouldn't go to waste," the department wrote on Facebook.
- PUB DATE: 6/26/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Fox News
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Posted: Jun 26, 2018

Fire Truck Photo of the Day-Sutphen Pumper

Angola (IN) Fire Department pumper. Monarch cab and chassis; Cummins ISL 450-hp engine; Hale Qmax 1,500-gpm pump; Pro Poly 750-gallon polypropylene tank.

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Posted: Jun 25, 2018

Safety concerns prompt Seattle Fire to increase staffing for calls at homeless shelters

Citing concerns about firefighter safety, the Seattle Fire Department has doubled the number of people who will respond to calls at homeless shelters in Pioneer Square. Capt. Shata Stephenson said in a statement that the department has gone from having two or four firefighters respond to “certain locations within Pioneer Square” to “at least six.
- PUB DATE: 6/25/2018 7:51:12 PM - SOURCE: KOMO-TV ABC 4 and Radio 1000
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Posted: Jun 25, 2018

Death of California firefighter starts safety conversation at Spokane Fire

When battalion chief David Heizer first started with Spokane Fire 25 years ago, he never thought he'd have to face gunfire on the job -- as crews in Long Beach did Monday morning. Heizer told KXLY times have changed and along with that, comes a change in conversation about the way the department trains its crews.
- PUB DATE: 6/25/2018 7:42:43 PM - SOURCE: KXLY-TV ABC 4
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Posted: Jun 25, 2018

DNR tracking areas vulnerable to wildfires with new technology

Local firefighters are now using new technology to track which areas of the state are especially vulnerable to wildfires. It's called aerial mapping and it's been used to map the nearly 20 million acres of forests in Washington state since the 1940s. But now workers with the Department of Natural Resources are putting that mapping technology to use during wildfire season.
- PUB DATE: 6/25/2018 6:47:56 PM - SOURCE: KHQ-TV NBC 6
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