The Cranston Fire Department is monitoring the health of 20 firefighters and first responders experiencing exposure symptoms after battling a chemical fire at ProSys Finishing Technologies last week. Crews from across the state responded to the company on Elmwood Avenue last Monday when a report of a fire turned into a hazmat incident, sending 12 firefighters and two first responders to the hospital.
- PUB DATE: 2/7/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WPRI-TV Providence 12

Every 24-hour shift for firefighter-paramedic Nicole Morris gets harder for her to endure. She's not sick or hurt. She's pregnant. And according to the contract negotiated in 2016 between the International Association of Firefighters Local 2201 and the Indian River County Emergency Services District, she can't be assigned to light duty.
- PUB DATE: 2/7/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: TCPalm.com

A Central firefighter became trapped when an overhang roof collapsed while crews were working a house fire Monday afternoon. But civilians on scene helped rescue him, according to a Facebook post from the Central Fire Department. Crews were dispatched around 2:40 p.m. to the 12100 block of Lancewood Drive for a building on fire behind a home.
- PUB DATE: 2/7/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Advocate

A timber worker was rescued Tuesday after getting stuck overnight 20 feet down a sinkhole in Grays Harbor County. It happened in a logging area off W. Satsop Road, about six and a half miles northwest of the town of Brady. According to Grays Harbor Fire District 2, the man was out surveying on Monday and marking areas that could be prone to sinkholes when one opened up and he fell in.
- PUB DATE: 2/6/2018 11:47:52 PM - SOURCE: KOMO-TV ABC 4 and Radio 1000

Carbondale (IL) Fire Department 107-foot Ascendant aerial ladder quint. Enforcer cab and chassis; Cummins ISL9 450-hp engine; Pierce 1,500-gpm single-stage pump; UPF Poly 500-gallon tank.