A Macon County volunteer firefighter is in critical condition after he was struck in the head by a fire hose. According to Macon County Fire Chief Micah Kauffman, it happened around 4 p.m. Saturday. Macon County firefighters are keeping vigil at the hospital after one of their men suffered a traumatic brain injury Saturday afternoon.
- PUB DATE: 5/23/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Telegraph

A King County Superior Court jury on Thursday awarded $9.5 million to the family of a Kingston man who died in a collision with a fire truck. On the morning of July 4, 2014, Jason Foster was was riding a motor scooter on Miller Bay Road, approaching its intersection with West Kingston Road. The traffic signal turned yellow, and he continued.
- PUB DATE: 5/23/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Kitsap Sun

Atlantic City firefighters rescued more than a dozen people trapped in an elevator. The Atlantic City Fire Department posted on Facebook that 14 people were stuck in an elevator for several hours at the Tropicana Casino & Resort on Saturday. The elevator suddenly stopped between the sixth and seventh floors.
- PUB DATE: 5/23/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: CBS Philly

A mother from Mamaroneck, New York has decided to reinvent herself in a field dominated by men, most of whom are a whole lot younger. Suburban mom Robin Nesdale showed CBS2’s Lou Young some of the new equipment she’s learned to use to rescue other people, and perhaps, herself. At 57 years old, she’s decided to play against type and become a volunteer firefighter.
- PUB DATE: 5/23/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: CBS New York

The fire marshal and the ATF were back at Center Plaza Mall in Federal Way Monday, searching for the cause of a fire that destroyed one of three buildings that make up the complex. The estimated price tag for the losses is $5 million. All of it went up into smoke Sunday morning in a two-alarm fire that tore through the building.
- PUB DATE: 5/23/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: king5.com