The Hope (Canada) Fire Department's new tender has a 1,250-gpm pump and a 2,000-gallon water tank.

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The North Chicago (IL) Fire Department took delivery of a 2025 Sutphen engine, which has a 2,000-gallon-per-minute (gpm) pump and a 1,000-gallon tank.

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Fort Garry Fire Trucks built this 1,250/1,000 pumper for the Cumberland, Wallace (Nova Scotia) Fire Department on a Freightliner M2 106 cab and chassis.

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A massive blast at an industrial facility in Logan Township, New Jersey, sent five people to the hospital on Wednesday afternoon. The explosion occurred around 2:36 p.m. at Savita Naturals, a commercial facility on the 600 block of Heron Drive in Swedesboro that processes cocoa butter for the chocolate industry.

Gloucester County officials said four of the injured individuals were taken to the hospital in critical condition. One of them is the owner of the facility, according to a relative who spoke with Action News. Another person from a nearby facility had a medical emergency and was also hospitalized. There was no word on their condition.

A county spokesperson added that all employees at the facility were accounted for. Several propane tanks are on the decades-old site for production, but the exact cause of the blast remains under investigation. The explosion was felt across the immediate area – even across the river in Delaware County, Pennsylvania.

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Every day, firefighters in communities across the US risk their lives responding to emergencies. And in the age of worsening wildfires driven by the climate crisis, their jobs have become more important than ever.

So how does pay correlate to such a key job? As we’ll see below, firefighter wages fluctuate dramatically across the 50 states, with some states recording six-figure earnings for the highest earners, while others in the 10th percentile of earners barely scratch the $25,000 mark.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics provides data on firefighter wages. Using the most recent data from May 2024, Business Insider identified the median annual salaries of firefighters in every US state.

We also identified the overall salary range of firefighters in each state, ranging from the low-end 10th percentile to the high-end 90th percentile of salaries.

Chris Lake, the director of collective bargaining for the International Association of Firefighters, told Business Insider that many factors contribute to pay differences from state to state. For starters, every state has differences in cost of living, housing prices, taxes, and other factors, so salaries will often reflect these characteristics.

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