California’s firefighting agency plans to discipline two employees blamed for forcing the state to redo a battalion chief examination for nearly 500 employees, the department’s director said Thursday. The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection notified 488 applicants that they will have to retake the promotion exam this summer because the initial test “had significant irregularities.
- PUB DATE: 5/5/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KOVR-TV CBS Sacramento

"Good Morning America" anchors Michael Strahan and Jesse Palmer marked International Firefighters' Day today by shadowing Fire Department of the City of New York (FDNY) firefighters as they fought a simulated fire at the FDNY training facility on Randall's Island in New York. The facility, nicknamed "The Rock," features a mock restaurant that can be lit on fire.
- PUB DATE: 5/5/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: ABC News

Four people were injured, one of them critically, in a fiery crash Friday morning along a busy Federal Way highway, police said. Emergency crews responded to the scene, in the 35600 block of Pacific Highway South, at about 5:15 a.m. after receiving reports of a serious collision, said Cathy Schrock of the Federal Way police.
- PUB DATE: 5/5/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KOMO News

Ferrara's MVP features extra low cab step height, frame rail height crosslays, low hosebed, and lowered body height to make it easier to retrieve equipment. 

Every day, on average, nearly 200 tanker cars carry close to 6 million gallons of crude oil through Spokane. Each one of those cars can hold as much as three tanker trucks' worth of some of the most explosive crude in the country. Spokane serves as a bottleneck into the state for trains traveling from the east across the northern U.
- PUB DATE: 5/4/2017 7:12:38 PM - SOURCE: The Inlander