“We only need to look back over the past few weeks to witness the tremendous contributions of firefighters called to respond to hurricanes, tragic events in Las Vegas as well as the wildfires burning across the western United States,” said Dr. Don Wright, acting secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, as he addressed those gathered at the National Fallen Firefighters Memorial Service on Sunday morning.
- PUB DATE: 10/9/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Frederick News-Post

A volunteer Burke County firefighter was killed after being hit by a car while trying to clear debris from a road in Morganton Sunday night. According to a spokesperson with the Triple Community Fire Department, firefighters were dispatched to a tree that was blocking the eastbound and westbound lanes of Highway 70 East near the Drexel intersection just before midnight.
- PUB DATE: 10/9/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WBTV-TV Channel 3

More than two months after the city expected to announce the hiring of a new chief to lead its troubled fire department in the wake of the Ghost Ship disaster, it remains unclear how soon the position will be filled. One of the finalists, Los Angeles Assistant Fire Chief Patrick Butler, told the Bay Area News Group on Friday he was offered the job at the end of August but turned it down because the compensation package would mean a pay cut.
- PUB DATE: 10/9/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: East Bay Times

The Cleveland Division of Police is investigating a deadly crash involving a car and a fire truck. The crash happened around 12:20 a.m. Monday in front of the Cleveland Division of Fire station at St. Clair Ave. and E. 103rd St. A ladder truck was returning from a fire when a car hit the truck head-on.
- PUB DATE: 10/9/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WJW-TV MyFox Cleveland

Wind-whipped wildfires roared to life Sunday night and early Monday across Wine Country, burning buildings, forcing hundreds of evacuations and injuring several people, reports CBS San Francisco. The Atlas Peak fire was the largest, quickly growing to more than 200 acres near Napa. Meanwhile, a fire near Calistoga had burned several buildings, sent several people to the hospital to be treated for burns and prompted mandatory evacuations along several roads.
- PUB DATE: 10/9/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: CBS News