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Posted: Mar 12, 2018

Washington District Volunteer Fire Company (WV) Upgrades Firefighting Equipment

The tools include a new Hurst Jaws of Life brand spreader and cutter, a new, high-tech Flir thermal imaging camera and a TL-9 stabilizer.  

The thermal imaging camera replaces an older model.

 

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Posted: Mar 12, 2018

Responding Conetoe (NC) Fire Apparatus Collides With Truck

State Highway Patrol Trooper Timothy Pope said the driver of a Conetoe Volunteer Fire Department truck collided with a Ford F-350 that was hauling a trailer behind it about 10 a.m. near the Edgecombe-Martin county line.  

According to Pope, firefighters from Conetoe along with the N.C. Forest Service were working to extinguish a brush fire prior to the wreck. An animal control officer with the Martin County Sheriff's Office discovered the fire after he stopped to remove a tire from the roadway.

A firefighter was driving another truck eastbound on the highway from Conetoe to assist in the response when the wreck occurred. 

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Posted: Mar 12, 2018

Report: Donated Palo Alto (CA) Fire Apparatus 'Hidden' at Oaxaca Fire Chief's Home

The report is based on video footage shot by the NGO Citizen’s Eye for Democracy and against Corruption (Ojo Ciudadano por la Democracia y en Contra de la Corrupción) outside the vacation home of Manuel Alberto Maza Sánchez, the head of the state fire department. If the fire engine needed mechanical repairs, it should be in a repair shop or an official facility, reckoned the citizens’ group in an online post. While no formal complaint has been filed in the case, the Oaxaca Secretariat of Government Accountability and Transparency has announced it will investigate.  
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Posted: Mar 12, 2018

South Fulton (GA) Fire Apparatus Involved in Accident

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Posted: Mar 12, 2018

Fire destroys Kent mobile home; 5 escape

Five people managed to escape from a fire that destroyed one mobile home and damaged a second one early Monday in Kent. Crews responded to the scene, in the 24400 block of 64th Avenue South, at about 5:05 a.m. after receiving reports of smoke and flames at a residence there. The home was already fully engulfed in flames when firefighters arrived.
- PUB DATE: 3/12/2018 7:28:14 AM - SOURCE: KOMO-TV ABC 4 and Radio 1000
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