Posted: Feb 11, 2018
The girls might as well have been invisible, coated in soot in a room flooded with smoke.
Three stories of flames had been beaten down by Engine 7, just enough for Capt. Nick Adsero and firefighter Brent Duckworth to skirt past a broken sliding glass door and into a burning living room at the Olin Fields Apartments.
- PUB DATE: 2/10/2018 10:46:55 PM - SOURCE: Everett Herald - Metered Site
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Posted: Feb 10, 2018
It was a life or death situation with little chance of making it. A Spokane area firefighter and medic went into cardiac arrest at his home on Mt. Spokane. Luckily someone close to him who he trained more than three decades ago was there.
“If she wasn’t here I would have died,” Rick Stone said.
It was a Saturday night and Carol Stone and her husband had just gotten home from dinner when he told her something was wrong.
- PUB DATE: 2/10/2018 5:04:47 PM - SOURCE: KAYU-TV MyFox Spokane
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Posted: Feb 10, 2018
Washington state lawmakers are currently working on the details of a proposed bill that would increase the presumptive disease coverage for firefighters by nine cancers as well as MRSA and stroke.
The bill would also apply the presumptions to publicly employed fire investigators and paramedics.
The new cancers recognized as presumptive would include mesothelioma, stomach, esophageal, buccal, pharyngeal, nonmelanoma skin cancer and adenocarcinoma.
- PUB DATE: 2/10/2018 4:59:11 PM - SOURCE: KXLY-TV ABC 4
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Posted: Feb 9, 2018
Fire officials in Yakima have come together to honor the death of retired Captain Robert Burton. Burton died last year on Christmas Day, and today was his funeral.
Dozens of firefighters joined Burton's family at Stone Church in Yakima to say their final goodbyes.
Burton died on Christmas Day of last year due to complications from job-related cancer.
- PUB DATE: 2/9/2018 3:59:39 PM - SOURCE: NBCRightNow.com
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Posted: Feb 9, 2018
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A comprehensive report this week to the City Council on the state of the Copperas Cove Fire Department by Fire Chief Michael Neujahr made it clear expansion is coming. The fire department is presently staffed by 36 firefighters, six lieutenants, three fire captains, two deputy chiefs, the fire chief and an administrative assistant for a total of 49 employees.
During 2017, that meant for more than 1,000 calls, the fire engine was out of service while the ambulance was on a call. The ambulance was out of service for over 150 calls while the fire engine was on a call.
The fire chief proposed a $2.05 million renovation to Fire Station No. 3, which will enlarge the staff quarters, living area, apparatus bay, storage and driveway to adequately handle the current equipment and additional staff.
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