VIDEO - A witty parody video by the New Gloucester Fire Rescue has gone viral. The video about recruitment called “I Got Hose,” inspired by the song “Area Codes” by Ludacris and Nate Dogg, was posted Friday on the fire department’s page on Facebook. The video has been viewed over 311,000 times and has almost 5,000 shares.
- PUB DATE: 4/11/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WGME.com

The Layton Volunteer Fire Department, with more than a half-century of history in the tiny Long Key community around mile marker 68.5, will soon become history. “We’re just running out of people, especially younger people,” said Philip “Skip” Haring, Layton city administrator and lieutenant of the volunteer department that formed in the late 1950s.
- PUB DATE: 4/11/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: FL Keys News

Cincinnati firefighers are making a plea to the city council to get new bulletproof vests. "It makes sense to me," Councilmember Christopher Smitherman said. "It's unfortunate that it's the new reality." Last October, the city made the first step, buying more than 180 bullet vests for firefighters in anticipation of the Ray Tensing trial.
- PUB DATE: 4/11/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WCPO-TV ABC 9 Cincinnati

Pasco firefighters are investigating after a house fire forced a family out of their home this afternoon. Ben Shearer with the Pasco Fire Department tells us an exhaust fan in the bathroom caused the fire, but it was mostly contained to the attic area of the home. It happened on the 4500 block of West Henry Street in Pasco around 2:00 p.
- PUB DATE: 4/10/2017 6:36:23 PM - SOURCE: NBCRightNow.com