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

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

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

State lawmakers passed a bill Thursday to give firefighters special insurance in case they get cancer from the job. Currently, firefighters who get sick may lose their jobs and health insurance. "When we run into these houses to try and put out the fire to save lives, we're being exposed to very toxic carcinogens," said Capt.
- PUB DATE: 3/17/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: wsbtv.com