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Posted: Aug 15, 2017

Firefighters team up to knock down fire in Kennewick

A Kennewick family still has a home thanks to the teamwork of local fire crews. Firefighters from Kennewick, Pasco, and Benton County responded to a fire in some arborvitae bushes on the corner of Quincy Place and Canal Drive, Tuesday afternoon. The fire was only 30-feet from the home but crews were able to knock it down fairly quickly.
- PUB DATE: 8/15/2017 5:43:36 PM - SOURCE: KEPR-TV CBS 19
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Posted: Aug 15, 2017

Holland (TX) VFD Receives $100,000 Grant

The Holland Volunteer Fire Department will be getting a new brush truck thanks to a significant grant. HVFD has been awarded $100,000 through the Texas A&M Forest Service Rural Volunteer Fire Department Assistance Program. Chief Coleman Benner said they applied for the funds to purchase a new brush truck.
The department currently has five fire vehicles, and one of their current brush trucks from the year 2000 was getting old and needed to be replaced sooner, rather than later.
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Posted: Aug 15, 2017

Displaced Orange County Fire Authority and Buena Park Firefighters Move to Temporary Fire Station

Not unlike students returning to school this month for the first day of class, Orange County Fire Authority and Buena Park firefighters returned to school Monday, Aug. 14.
More than seven months after a fire burned down the city’s 50-year-old Station 61, crews displaced by the fire moved into Walter Knott Elementary, a Centralia School District site turned temporary fire station.

About 40 fire personnel will work out of Walter Knott, which closed as a school in 2010, but has since reopened as an education center.

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Posted: Aug 15, 2017

Raleigh (NC) Fire Station Must Move for Proposed High-Speed Rail

A fire station that serves northeast Raleigh must move to make way for a proposed high-speed rail line. Fire Station No. 22 could relocate from its current spot on Durant Road to 1.3 acres of city-owned property at 10050 Durant Road near Abbotts Creek Park. The site is about a mile away.
Raleigh staff on Tuesday recommended budgeting $9 million to build a new station. The City Council is expected to vote on the issue Sept. 5.

A new station would be much larger than the existing facility, which opened in 1998 and is 5,000 square feet. The new station would be 14,000 square feet and two stories.

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Posted: Aug 15, 2017

Wellington High School (FL) Getting Fire Apparatus

Palm Beach County Fire Rescue is helping out what may be the next generation of local firefighters. The agency donated an old fire engine to Wellington High School's Fire Academy last week, which will help the students with their hands-on training. The Fire Academy was started at the school in 2013.
Mark Davis, the lead instructor for the class, also teaches at Palm Beach State College and works for Palm Beach County Fire Rescue. He said the new engine will help specifically on the hands-on state test, which the students will be able to practice more efficiently.
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