Posted: Apr 17, 2018
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The Texarkana, Arkansas Fire Department could soon be bringing three new fire trucks into their fleet. Council members plan to vote on whether to approve the $1.5 million purchase at their regularly scheduled meeting on Monday, April 16th. Fire officials say the trucks would replace older equipment that the city will then sell as surplus.
Fire officials say the trucks would replace older equipment that the city will then sell as surplus.
If approved, Station 1 will receive a new ladder truck, and Stations 3 and 5 will receive new pumper trucks.
“If we get these three trucks approved and purchased, then our fleet of trucks will be in pretty good shape for years to come,” explained Chief David Fletcher.
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Posted: Apr 17, 2018
Jerry Bailey, a longtime retired member and fire commissioner of Grays Harbor Fire District 5, resigned from his position as fire commissioner on March 31 for personal reasons, according to a statement released by the district Monday.
The open position will be filled through an approved process of the Fire District board.
- PUB DATE: 4/17/2018 1:47:26 AM - SOURCE: The Daily World
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Posted: Apr 17, 2018
The memories of the blast five years ago that robbed Kirk Wines of his friends and first responder colleagues remain vivid as ever, but he keeps them filed neatly away. The amiable owner of West’s Old Corner Drug Store stays busy filling prescriptions, chatting with customers and minding his emergency pager as a captain of the West Volunteer Fire Department.
- PUB DATE: 4/17/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Waco Tribune-Herald
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Posted: Apr 17, 2018
New questions emerged Monday about the FDNY’s denial of 9/11-related disability benefits to a retired firefighter who labored at Ground Zero and then suffered severe psychiatric illness before dying in a mental hospital.
Joe Battista spent months at the World Trade Center site after the 9/11 attacks and developed serious health issues, and severe depression and post-traumatic stress disorder that led to repeated hospitalizations.
- PUB DATE: 4/17/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: New York Daily News
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Posted: Apr 17, 2018
Nick Reeder's life was just coming into focus last week--four years ago, he found Amanda Sawyer.
"We met on an online profile, yeah and we had a blind date and were inseparable after that date. It was love at first sight definitely," said Nick Reeder.
Nick says she did it all--mother, worker, wife and she loved that he was a firefighter, even decorating their home with fire memorabilia.
- PUB DATE: 4/17/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KABC-TV ABC 7 Los Angeles
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