The two men who took down the boy who allegedly vandalized the Boston Holocaust memorial on Monday evening were an off-duty Boston firefighter and a US Drug Enforcement Administration agent, said the Boston Fire Department. According to the department’s spokesperson, Steve MacDonald, the pair was eating at the Union Oyster House when they heard the ordeal going on outside.
- PUB DATE: 8/16/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: CBS Boston

A woman walking with her three young children in Central Park Tuesday morning was struck and pinned by a large tree. All four were taken to the hospital after the woman was freed around 10:10 a.m., the FDNY said. The family was treated at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center for non-life-threatening injuries, the NYPD said.
- PUB DATE: 8/16/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Newsday

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