The New York City Fire Museum will reopen to the public Thursday after two years of repairs.

The museum, located in a renovated 1904 firehouse at 278 Spring St., has been closed since May 2024 because of concerns about the building’s structural integrity.

The reopening comes ahead of the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, the deadliest day in FDNY history. Fire Commissioner Lillian Bonsignore will attend.

The museum houses historic FDNY firefighting artifacts and memorabilia, including items dating to the era of horse-drawn apparatus. Despite the repairs, thousands of artifacts on display remained in place.

Visitors will enter through a new glass entrance featuring new flooring decorated with enlarged patches from FDNY and EMS houses across the city.

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VIDEOS: Investigators were out at the scene Thursday after a fatal midair crash left a pilot dead and two Pennsylvania state troopers injured.

They will be looking into what caused a small plane and a state police helicopter to collide midair in Central Pennsylvania Wednesday night.

The Federal Aviation Administration and National Transportation Safety Board are both investigating. The crash happened at the Carlisle Airport in Cumberland County, southwest of Harrisburg, around 7 p.m.

When first responders arrived at the scene, a Pennsylvania state police helicopter was on its side and a small plane was in pieces.

The acting commissioner of the state police said the helicopter crew, based out of Harrisburg, had been conducting routine training exercises.

“The pilots would not have been able to even see that airplane approaching them,” said Pennsylvania State Police Acting Commissioner Col. George Bivens, adding that it was a “very violent crash.”

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VIDEO/PHOTOS: Fire crews have responded to 11 fires in the area of the Shadow Hawk and Royal Hills apartments in Renton since June, causing concern for residents who had a close call with the most recent blaze to break out. The new numbers come after a juvenile was suspected of starting a brush fire behind the Royal Hills apartment complex during peak fire season.

Renton Regional Fire Authority and Puget Sound Regional Fire Authority responded to the brush fire near the 3000 block of Royal Hills Drive Southeast around 5:30 p.m. Monday. Video from the scene showed firefighters working behind the apartment complex as flames burned underneath transmission lines. Crews were able to knock down the fire and prevent it from spreading to the complex.

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Tumbleweeds rolling across yards and piling against homes may seem like a quirk of life in the Tri-Cities, but local fire officials view them as a serious wildfire threat — and a regulatory problem.

Right now, Benton County residents can burn windblown tumbleweeds on their property without a permit or fee. That exemption exists only because the county’s population sits just under 250,000 people. As the Tri-Cities expand, that threshold could trigger new regulations that would burden homeowners and local governments with permitting requirements and potential fees.

“Once that exemption goes away due to our population threshold, then individuals would be required to obtain a permit, likely through the local Clean Air Authority, to do so. And that may come at a cost for those wanting to burn tumbleweed,” Heffner said.

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The Kennewick Fire Department is preparing for significant growth in the Southridge area by launching a recruitment effort for a new fire station that will reshape emergency response in the city.

Fire Station 6 is expected to open in late 2029 or early 2030, and the department will need to hire approximately a dozen new firefighters to operate the facility. Rather than bringing all new hires on at once, Fire Chief Michael Heffner said the department will stagger the hiring process over two years to ensure proper training and readiness.

“Bringing on a dozen firefighters all at once, it’s a big endeavor. So, like, we’re going to split that up over a period of two years to get them trained up,” Heffner said. The department plans to hire about half of the new firefighters in 2028, with the remaining positions filled in 2029. This timeline gives the fire department adequate time to train crews before Station 6 begins operating and serving the community.

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