Hollywood Fire Rescue crews were inside a hot nursing home to rescue dying people on the Monday after Hurricane Irma, then again Tuesday and twice Wednesday before forcing an evacuation. What they saw and how they responded inside the nursing home where 12 people died after 62 hours without air conditioning is the subject of a deposition examined by the South Florida Sun Sentinel.
- PUB DATE: 1/9/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Sun Sentinel

Funeral arrangements have been made for the Philadelphia Fire Department lieutenant who died Saturday after being trapped under rubble and debris while battling a blaze that engulfed a two-story North Philadelphia rowhouse. The department announced Monday that viewings for Lt. Matthew LeTourneau will be held from 4:30 to 9 p.
- PUB DATE: 1/9/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Firehouse

Cold temperatures can give firefighters a difficult time when they are on scene. Spokane County Fire District 4 Chief, Randy Johnson, said there are ways to help fire crews overcome cold temperatures Johnson said it starts with keeping the pumps on their apparatus drained in the station, so they are not carrying water as we drive to the incident within the pump.
- PUB DATE: 1/9/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KREM

A Coast Guard helicopter was unsuccessful Monday in finding the body of missing Sequim resident Jeri Lyn Smith, 68, who authorities said jumped from the Elwha River Road bridge west of Port Angeles and into the Elwha River over the weekend. “The helicopter didn’t locate her,” Brian King, Clallam County chief criminal deputy, said late Monday afternoon.
- PUB DATE: 1/8/2018 7:46:14 PM - SOURCE: Port Angeles Peninsula Daily News

Spokane City Council approved an emergency resolution Monday night to allow the Spokane City Fire Department to buy two new breathing air compressors. This comes after contaminants were reportedly found in firefighters' air tanks. The state is now investigating a complaint that the air compressors were not serviced in a timely manner.
- PUB DATE: 1/8/2018 4:57:06 PM - SOURCE: KREM-TV CBS 2