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Posted: Mar 10, 2017

$4.5 million annual bill for FDNY at Trump Tower

Stationing firefighters and medics 24 hours a day at Trump Tower costs New York City taxpayers $4.5 million a year — none of which has been reimbursed to the FDNY, agency officials said Thursday at the City Council. A pair of firefighters constantly monitors the alarm panel of President Donald Trump’s namesake building and investigates alerts, said FDNY chief of department James E.
- PUB DATE: 3/10/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: NewsDay
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Posted: Mar 10, 2017

Fire Truck Photo of the Day-Toyne Pumper

West Liberty (IA) Fire Department, pumper. Spartan Metro Star cab and chassis; Cummins ISL 450-hp engine; Hale Qmax 1,500-gpm pump

 

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Posted: Mar 9, 2017

Tacoma home destroyed by fire

Tacoma Fire will investigate what sparked an intense fire that burned a waterfront home to the ground. Firefighters arrived at a home on the 3600 block of North Waterview Street just after 9 p.m. on Wednesday. Crews fought the flames from the outside of the home because it was too unsafe to go inside.
- PUB DATE: 3/9/2017 7:25:07 PM - SOURCE: KING-TV NBC 5
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Posted: Mar 9, 2017

Sullivan County (IN) Commissioners Accept Bid for Repairs to Ambulance Facility

For more than a year, the Sullivan County Ambulance Facility has sat empty. That's because in February of 2016 a fire destroyed the garage and damaged the three ambulances inside. Since then, President Bob Davis and the other Sullivan County Commissioners have worked on what's next for the building.
"The best we can tell is the one ambulances started the fire so there was a lot of issues there of the subjugation of insurance companies trying to figure out who’s at fault,” Davis said. "That kept us out of the building for a while.
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Posted: Mar 9, 2017

Growing Traffic Increases Fire Department Response Times In San Diego

Worsening traffic congestion in San Diego is increasing fire department response times, according to a report delivered to the City Council's Public Safety and Livable Neighborhoods Committee Wednesday. The presentation from the consultant Citygate Associates was a follow-up to a 2010 study that quantified the need for more fire stations and determined which locations were most urgent.
According to the update, an analysis found that during normal traffic periods, only 74 percent of the city's public streets were within 5 minutes travel time of an active fire station. Five-minute coverage at morning and afternoon commute hours was reduced to 51 percent of roadways.

Only 6 percent of city streets were quickly reachable during commute hours for first-alarm responses in which multiple units have to travel across larger sections of the city, the report said. That's even though the first- alarm standard is three minutes longer.

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