Posted: Mar 18, 2017
Snohomish County Fire District 7 Commissioner Guy Palumbo has resigned from his position on District 7’s Board of Fire Commissioners.
Palumbo was recently elected to the Washington State Senate, and although his desire was to finish the rest of his term as a Fire Commissioner, his primary focus is now on his new duties as a Senator, said District 7 spokeswoman Heather Chadwick.
- PUB DATE: 3/18/2017 10:19:14 AM - SOURCE: Sky Valley Chronicle
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Posted: Mar 17, 2017
Fire damaged one half of a duplex early Friday in Vancouver’s Hough neighborhood, according to the Vancouver Fire Department.
The fire was reported at 2:25 a.m. at 1013 W. 24th St., according to dispatch records.
Vancouver firefighter Joe Spatz said the first crews arriving reported fire coming through a front window of the single-story duplex.
- PUB DATE: 3/17/2017 8:00:15 AM - SOURCE: Vancouver Columbian
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Posted: Mar 17, 2017
An FDNY EMT was killed and another injured in the Bronx when someone stole their ambulance and ran them over with it while trying to get away, police said. The incident happened around 7:10 p.m. at the intersection of White Plains Road and Watson Avenue in the Soundview section of the borough, according to cops.
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Posted: Mar 17, 2017
An FDNY paramedic was run over and killed with her own ambulance in The Bronx Thursday — when a man who had been joyriding on the rear bumper commandeered the vehicle.
EMT Yadira Arroyo, a mom of five, was crushed under the wheels after she and her partner tried to shoo the man off of the back of the ambulance on White Plains Road at about 7 p.
- PUB DATE: 3/17/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: New York Post
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Posted: Mar 17, 2017
Karen Brack, Charleston's first female fire chief, is stepping down after almost five years of work to modernize one of the nation's oldest departments.
"It is with very mixed feelings that I have made a personal decision to resign my position as Fire Chief effective April 7, 2017," Brack said in an email to firefighters Friday morning.
- PUB DATE: 3/17/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Post Courier
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