Posted: Oct 23, 2017
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The Wapello Fire and Rescue department is asking the city for a new fire station. Assistant Fire Chief Eric Small said the main issue is space. There are currently three different buildings, where trucks and equipment are stored. "We've simply run out of space.
Firefighters said it can be hard to move around.
"So it also creates a safety issue walking in tight spaces and backing in these apparatus when people are around," said Asst. Chief Small.
The department says storage is another problem, in addition to a needing a larger meeting space.
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Posted: Oct 23, 2017
With shooting victims on the site of the Route 91 Harvest Festival and taking shelter in nearby hotels, police officers clustered around firefighters, protecting the paramedics as they worked to stabilize and move the wounded to safety.
The agencies had practiced together for years on these rescue task forces, preparing for the possibility of a mass-casualty event like the Oct.
- PUB DATE: 10/23/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Las Vegas Sun
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Posted: Oct 23, 2017
No one warned Mark Rine that while he was saving others, he was killing himself.
The bad habits that would ensure the firefighter’s death sentence started with his very first fire in 2007.
Rine was supposed to help set up the ladder, but he ignored his orders, grabbed the hose and charged into the burning two-story brick house.
- PUB DATE: 10/23/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Gatehouse Projects - Columbus Dispatch
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Posted: Oct 23, 2017
Internal reports that the Orange County Fire Authority bungled its initial response to the Canyon Fire 2 are prompting Orange County Supervisor Shawn Nelson to ask colleagues for an independent investigation of the fire that burned 9,200 acres and destroyed or damaged nearly 60 homes around Anaheim Hills.
- PUB DATE: 10/23/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Orange County Register
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Posted: Oct 23, 2017
VIDEO - New video shows the moment a crazed driver tried to steal a fire truck after plowing his box truck into several cars near Times Square Sunday. Video of the scuffle shows the truck driver, who can be seen wearing a green T-shirt, frantically climbing in the driver’s-side door of a fire engine on 10th Avenue and 43rd Street.
- PUB DATE: 10/23/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: New York Post
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