Six diesel ambulances with systemic exhaust problems have sickened Sacramento firefighters enough to send them to local emergency rooms as patients, the firefighters union and city said Friday. The city of Sacramento has removed those ambulances from the firefighting fleet and is planning to replace another eight units that may develop a similar problem.
- PUB DATE: 12/27/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Sacramento Bee

If you want to understand how badly Democrats lost the white working class in the 2016 election, your local fire station is not a bad place to start. Nearly 85 percent of professional firefighters are white, and more than 95 percent are men, making them look a lot like the other blue-collar voters who surged to Donald Trump this year.
- PUB DATE: 12/27/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: NBC News

An Austin-Travis County Emergency Medical Services ambulance was hijacked Sunday afternoon at approximately 4 p.m. with a medic crew and patient inside. According to an ATCEMS spokesperson, the medic crew was on scene for a different call at 500 E. 7th St., the Austin Resource Center for the Homeless (ARCH) when an individual hijacked the ambulance while the medic team was tending to a patient.
- PUB DATE: 12/27/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: kxan.com

The mayday came minutes after firefighters arrived at a 3-alarm blaze that’s believed to have started about 9 p.m. Thursday with an overloaded extension cord in the bedroom of a second-floor apartment at 11 Ashton Place in Methuen. One of them was trapped — and running out of air. A rapid intervention team trained specifically to rescue firefighters was en route from Salem, N.
- PUB DATE: 12/27/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Boston Herald

A woman was killed in a fire early Christmas morning at an Anacortes hotel, officials said. Firefighters were dispatched to the scene, the Sunrise Inn Villas and Suites in the 900 block of 20th Street, in response to a fire alarm on Sunday morning. When crews arrived, one room in the 26-unit hotel was found to be ablaze.
- PUB DATE: 12/26/2016 5:03:50 PM - SOURCE: KOMO-TV ABC 4 and Radio 1000