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Posted: Jun 2, 2017

Seven-alarm blaze guts Massachusetts condo complex

PHOTOS - Sixty people are without a home today after a seven-alarm blaze tore through a Reading condo complex, where about 100 firefighters were called to help contain the fire. Abby Brennan, who lives on the fourth floor, said she heard a fire alarm go off, opened her door and made her way down through the smoke with her 4-year-old son.
- PUB DATE: 6/2/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Boston Herald
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Posted: Jun 2, 2017

Fire Truck Photo of the Day-Spartan ER Pumper

Lower Saucon Fire-Rescue, Lower Saucon Township, PA, pumper. Metro Star cab and chassis; Cummins ISL9 450-hp engine; Hale DSD 1,500-gpm pump; Pro Poly 1,000-gallon polypropylene tank.

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Posted: Jun 1, 2017

Vancouver man sentenced in pair of explosions

While sentencing a Vancouver man to 18 years in prison for what he described as two car bombings, Judge David Gregerson told the defendant his case is disturbing and hard to forget. “This was … you spinning out of control,” Gregerson said to Pedro Franco-Gonzalez during his hearing Thursday in Clark County Superior Court.
- PUB DATE: 6/1/2017 8:02:16 PM - SOURCE: Vancouver Columbian
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Posted: Jun 1, 2017

Halifax County (VA) Rescue Squad Purchases New Fire Apparatus

Halifax County Rescue Squad recently purchased a new ambulance, unit 1502, which was made possible by the receipt of grant money from the Virginia Office of EMS Rescue Squad Assistance Fund and donations from county businesses and citizens.
"It was this help that made the purchase possible, which will provide a safer and more reliable response for our personnel and our patients," said EMS Supervisor Ray Mason.

The unit is a 2017 Osage type I Ambulance on a Dodge Ram 4500 chassis and is equipped with several newly required features such as provider restraint systems and more secure stretcher docking systems.

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Posted: Jun 1, 2017

New Spring (TX) Fire Stations Planned for Spring

As the population continues to boom in northwest Houston, the Spring Fire Department is working to keep up with the growth with two new fire stations underway. Fire Station No. 75 is under construction, located at 3915 FM 2920.
The new station will replace an older station that had been slated for replacement in a few years. Harris County Emergency Services District No. 7, which funds the department, had to speed up the project after mold was discovered there, said Assistant Fire Chief Robert Logan. The new $7.6 million fire station will be complete by October.
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