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Posted: Mar 21, 2017

Fire Apparatus Rear-Ended Outside Charlotte Fire Station

A driver rear-ended a fire truck in front of a fire station in southeast Charlotte Monday night, Charlotte-Mecklenburg police say.
It happened around 9:17 p.m. on Monroe Road at Forest Way Drive. CMPD says the fire truck was running emergency traffic and stopped on a side street when another driver rear-ended the truck because he wasn't paying attention.
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Posted: Mar 21, 2017

Commissioners Approve Stonewall (OK) Fire Apparatus Replacement

Pontotoc County Commissioners cleared the way Monday for Stonewall volunteer firefighters to replace a 33-year-old military surplus brush truck. Commissioners previously approved the purchase of a new Dodge Ram 3500 four-wheel drive truck chassis to replace the aging 1984 military surplus chassis on loan to the department from the U.S. Forest Service. Department officials say that chassis has been in use for 12 years and has become completely unreliable, leaving them with a single wildland brush truck — a truck specially designed to fight fires in rural areas inaccessible by roads.
Stonewall Firefighter Phillip Nuner said the new truck will be configured to make it easier to operate by one firefighter, where the older truck required two to three firefighters to operate.

"It's a more capable truck with a larger water tank," Nuner said. "And with the type of fire behavior we have (now), especially with what we call wildland interface -- areas where wildlands run up against municipalities and residential developments -- that'll be handy to have."

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Posted: Mar 21, 2017

Jamul to Deliver New Fire Apparatus to San Diego

Leading up to what could be a busy fire season in San Diego County, the Jamul Indian Village will officially hand over the keys and deliver a new $1 million ladder truck and $500 thousand pumper truck to the San Diego County Fire Authority.
The delivery is part of the multi-million dollar, comprehensive Fire and Life Services Agreement reached between the Tribe and the County of San Diego to drastically improve the overall fire safety of the region.
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Posted: Mar 21, 2017

Babysitter rescues kids from Spokane house fire

Firefighters responded to a house fire Tuesday afternoon at a home near 40th and Cook on the South Hill. At the time of the fire a babysitter was home watching multiple children. The babysitter was able to get the kids out of the home safely. Firefighters say the fire was started because there was a combustible too close to the fireplace in the home.
- PUB DATE: 3/21/2017 3:43:41 PM - SOURCE: KQNT-AM 590 Spokane
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Posted: Mar 21, 2017

3 WSU students charged with starting 2016 Snake River wildfire

Three Washington State University students have been charged with gross misdemeanors in connection with the start of a wildfire that burned about 11,000 acres last summer. Blake Rogers, 22, Isaiah Weber, 23, and Jonathan Whitley, 22, all of Pullman, were each charged Monday with second-degree reckless burning for allegedly starting an illegal campfire that grew into the Snake River Fire.
- PUB DATE: 3/21/2017 3:07:55 PM - SOURCE: KOMO-TV ABC 4 and Radio 1000
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