VIDEO: A local fire department has become the unintentional catalyst of conversation after changing their drug policy and allowing its firefighters to use CBD products. Despite CBD being legal in Indiana since March of 2018, the decision for White River Township Fire Department to change their policy to allow its staff to use CBD products has turned out to be quite controversial among Indiana’s firefighting industry.
- PUB DATE: 7/13/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WXIN-TV FOX 59 Indianapolis

PHOTOS: The apocalyptic scene is still burned into Mike Buttery’s memory 50 years later: Black smoke billowing from the top floor of the Military Personnel Records Center; bits of paper wafting through the air as dozens of firefighters tried desperately to stem the inferno. “They’d hit it (the paper) with the water, and the water would knock it back up in the air, and then it would float around some more out there,” Buttery, then a janitor at the center, recalls of the wind-whipped paper swirling around the massive six-story building outside Saint Louis.
- PUB DATE: 7/13/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Air Force Times

An expanding, intensifying heat wave prompted the National Weather Service to issue heat alerts for more than 112 million people on Thursday morning, with no letup in sight for some areas. Why it matters: The heat will topple longstanding records, especially in the Southwest, and the duration of this event that's set to continue well into next week increases public health dangers.
- PUB DATE: 7/13/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Axios

At least one person was rescued Wednesday as firefighters battled a large fire that spread to multiple apartment buildings in Hollywood. The fire broke out around 5:21 p.m. at a building on 7764 W Hollywood Blvd., just east of Fairfax Avenue. Investigators said two vehicles were spotted burning in a carport.
- PUB DATE: 7/13/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KABC-TV ABC 7 Los Angeles

A Sammamish man tried to keep a fire at his home from spreading by using a garden hose until firefighters arrived, but flames left the house badly damaged. Crews were called to the home on Windsor Drive Southeast at about 7:30 a.m. Wednesday after a neighbor called 911. According to a spokesperson for Eastside Fire & Rescue, when firefighters arrived, the homeowner was spraying the roof of the house.
- PUB DATE: 7/12/2023 2:36:00 PM - SOURCE: KIRO-TV CBS 7 Seattle