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Posted: Aug 7, 2017

Fire Truck Returns to Jeffersonville to Be Displayed at Vintage Fire Museum

Posted: Saturday, August 5, 2017 10:33 PM EDT Updated: Saturday, August 5, 2017 10:33 PM EDT JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. (WDRB) -- It was a homecoming of sorts for a longtime Jeffersonville firetruck. Saturday, the 1953 Seagrave Pumper returned to its original home in Jeffersonville.

The 1953 Seagrave Pumper returned to its original home in Jeffersonville. 


It was in commission for 40 years before being auctioned off, but it was recently purchased by a board member of the Vintage Fire Museum where it will now be permanently displayed. 


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Posted: Aug 7, 2017

Prairieville Fire Department Opens Newest Fire Station

PRAIRIEVILLE - With a booming population, Fire Protection District 3 - better known as the Prairieville Fire Department - opened its fifth fire station this summer to meet the demands of the fastest growing area of Ascension Parish. But the area may need another five stations to meet the demand.

The area may need another five stations to meet the demand.


The $1.4 million station on the corner of Bluff Road and Alligator Bayou Road is the second of two stations built in the area in the last three years, as new business and residential developments seem to break ground weekly in the unincorporated community of Prairieville, in the northern reaches of the parish.


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Posted: Aug 7, 2017

Apopka Adds Fire Stations to Improve Response Times

The last time Apopka built a fire station, fewer than 20,000 people lived in Orange County's second-largest city and no toll roads led into the bedroom community. That was 1997. Apopka is now home to nearly 50,000 residents who commute on three high-speed highways, but the city is still covered by just four fire stations.
The city plans to break ground on a new firehouse — one of two in the works — to reduce the time it takes firefighters and paramedics to get to emergency calls on toll roads ringing the city and to areas in the city’s farthest northwest and southwestern reaches, where the population is booming.
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Posted: Aug 7, 2017

Former Oklahoma City Fire Chief sworn in as U.S. Fire Administrator

Oklahoma City's former fire chief has been sworn in as United States Fire Administrator. Keith Bryant was sworn in August 4 in the special ceremony at the Oklahoma City National Memorial by Federal Judge Timothy DeGiusti. Bryant will be responsible for leading fire and EMS services on the national level under the Trump administration.
- PUB DATE: 8/7/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KOKH-TV FOX25
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Posted: Aug 7, 2017

12 injured, including 1 firefighter, after hazardous chemical spill in California port

Twelve people, including one firefighter, were injured Sunday morning after a flammable liquid leaked from a shipping container in the Port of Long Beach, officials said. The spill of the unidentified chemical from the 6,000-gallon container was reported shortly before 9:30 a.m., a spokesperson for the Long Beach Fire Department said.
- PUB DATE: 8/7/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: abclocal.go
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