The most dramatic images of firefighters often depict them emerging from a building engulfed in flames, a person draped across their arms, or making their way down a ladder high in the air, a child held tightly to their chest. Rescues from burning buildings happen, but are rare. In fact, firefighters with the Stanislaus Consolidated Fire Protection District more commonly conduct water rescues, having averaged nearly three per week this spring and summer.
- PUB DATE: 8/14/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Modesto Bee

Eight Firestorm firefighters were injured Friday morning after the crew truck they were riding in rolled over while traveling on Highway 299E near McKenney Road, west of Cedarville. According to Firestorm, all eight members who were injured were passengers. CHP reported that all eight were taken to the hospital.
- PUB DATE: 8/14/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: krcr.com

Almost all of the 2,000 Portuguese firefighters at a weeklong wildfire that killed 64 people this summer had something in common apart from the acute danger they faced: they were doing it for no pay and with equipment bought with public donations. More than 90 percent of Portugal’s around 30,000 firefighters are volunteers.
- PUB DATE: 8/14/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Washington Post

A dog died and two adults were injured in an early morning house fire in the Alderwood Manor area of unincorporated Snohomish County north of Bothell. The fire was reported before 6 a.m. on Sunday. Six people, including four teenage boys, were in a single-family home in the 21200 block of 1st Avenue West when it caught fire.
- PUB DATE: 8/13/2017 4:00:29 PM - SOURCE: Lynnwood Today

Renton Regional Fire Authorities, along with other local fire departments, conducted water rescue drills on Friday, Aug. 11. The drills included finding a submerged swimmer, rescuing people from a submerged vehicle, and learn shore logisitics of water rescues, according to a press release by Puget Sound Regional Fire Authority.
- PUB DATE: 8/12/2017 4:22:56 PM - SOURCE: Renton Reporter