Diana Matty joined West Palm Beach Fire Rescue fresh out of high school, in October 1994. She was 18. Work hard and someday you’ll be chief, they told her. “I took that to heart. I’ve been a hard worker all of my career,” Matty said. They made good on their promise Tuesday at 5 p.m. — on an interim basis, anyway — when City Administrator Jeff Green called to tell Asst.
- PUB DATE: 5/8/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Palm Beach Post

Two years before 36 partygoers died in the Ghost Ship warehouse inferno, Oakland firefighters toured the cluttered firetrap, even dancing in the same second-story performance space where the victims would huddle in their final moments, according to witnesses and documents. The visits started Sept. 26, 2014, a Friday, when firefighters extinguished a couch fire outside the warehouse artists’ collective on 31st Avenue before touring the eclectic interior, people who saw them inside the building said.
- PUB DATE: 5/8/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: East Bay Times

PHOTO/VIDEO - Five people were injured when a Hudson-Bergen Light Rail train crashed into a fire truck and derailed in Jersey City on Friday evening, fire officials said. Four firefighters and the train's operator suffered minor injuries in the collision near Washington Boulevard and Sixth Street, officials said.
- PUB DATE: 5/8/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: NBC New York

The Mount Horeb (WI) Joint Fire Department recently placed this 2016 Pierce Quantum platform aerial in service.

A fire sparked inside a pile of metal sent a large emergency response to Seattle Iron & Metals Corp. on Sunday. A general fire alarm alerted emergency crews to the flames shortly before 10 a.m., Lieutenant Harold Webb with Seattle Fire said. Firefighters found a pile of metal in the yard on fire, and upgraded the call to a hazardous material response as metal fires can be difficult to extinguish.
- PUB DATE: 5/7/2017 12:55:25 PM - SOURCE: KOMO-TV ABC 4 and Radio 1000