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Posted: Oct 10, 2023

South Carolina firefighters urge 'Stand By Your Pan' with funny, life-saving music video

VIDEO: A South Carolina fire department wants to get your attention during National Fire Prevention Week with a funny video that carries a serious message. The Greenville Fire Department posted a music video to their social media accounts called "Stand By Your Pan." Members of the city's Station 1 lent their satirical acting, singing and musical skills to the Tammy Wynette song with the same tune that made her a country legend.
- PUB DATE: 10/10/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WYFF-TV NBC 4 Greenville
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Posted: Oct 10, 2023

City in Michigan had its own fire on the same day as the Great Chicago Fire

VIDEO: The Summer of 1871 was unusually dry, creating a heightened fire risk around the Great Lakes. While the Great Chicago Fire is the most well known in history, towns across the Midwest were impacted on the same day in separate fires including many in Michigan. Among them Manistee, Alpena, Port Huron and Holland.
- PUB DATE: 10/10/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WZZM-TV ABC 13 Grand Rapids
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Posted: Oct 10, 2023

Old photo creates new bond between Oklahoma firefighters

PHOTOS: Adults often don’t know of the impact they have on a child’s life. But once in a while, that payoff comes full circle — and with photographic proof. About 15 years ago, Cameron Lierly was a young boy enjoying a Fourth of July parade in the Candlestick Beach community west of town when his mother, Bridget Lierly, took a snapshot of her son sitting in the cab of a Sand Springs fire truck.
- PUB DATE: 10/10/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Sand Springs Leader - Metered Site
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Posted: Oct 10, 2023

4.3 magnitude earthquake tests Washington's emergency alert system

VIDEO: From Canada to Olympia – a rumbling shook western Washington on Sunday night. "Suddenly somebody jerked the couch really violently," said Ranate Hartog, manager of Pacific Northwest Seismic Network at the University of Washington. "It felt like, but it was brief and it took a second, but it was like, 'Oh it’s an earthquake.
- PUB DATE: 10/10/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KING-TV NBC 5 Seattle
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Posted: Oct 9, 2023

Former Littlerock Fire Chief, 94, Tours West Thurston Regional Fire Authority

PHOTOS: The West Thurston Regional Fire Authority welcomed one of Littlerock Fire Rescue’s earliest fire chiefs, Marion Smith, for a tour of its Littlerock station on Friday, Oct. 6. Littlerock Fire Rescue, also known as Thurston County Fire District 1, was formed in 1947 and covered 55 square miles in Thurston County until it consolidated with the Grand Mound fire district, Thurston County Fire District 11, in the 2010s to become the West Thurston Regional Fire Authority.
- PUB DATE: 10/9/2023 8:47:05 PM - SOURCE: The Chronicle
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