It was standing room only Monday night as Slatington Borough residents and fire department supporters spilled into the borough council’s meeting room’s hallway. Over three quarters of the Slatington Volunteer Fire Department showed up to the council meeting to request former chief Keith Weaver be reinstatedafter being removed last month.
- PUB DATE: 11/18/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Times News

A good deed goes wrong after an off-duty firefighter was held at gunpoint and had his car stolen while helping car crash victims. "I was kind of awestruck that someone would actually pull a gun or a weapon on our person," said Mark Lawson, Merced Co. Fire Division Chief. The Merced County Sheriff's Department said the collision occurred a little after 8 a.
- PUB DATE: 11/18/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KFSN-TV ABC 30 Frenso/Visalia

When a couple got married last week, they had the most unexpected wedding crashers: firefighters. Newlyweds Allison Russoniello and Kevin Duffy were celebrating their wedding last Friday when they were told the building had to be evacuated due to a strange burning smell. It was later discovered the smell was from a faulty refrigerator compressor.
- PUB DATE: 11/18/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: FireRescue1

Hunters found a Washington state couple and two of their children walking along a remote logging road southwest of Seattle on Thursday, two days after they failed to pick up their older kids after school and were reported missing, authorities said. Jason and Melissa McAlister had gone for a drive Tuesday with their 8-month-old and 2-year-old, and got stuck when the road gave way as they tried to maneuver their van around a downed tree north in the rugged country in Mason County.
- PUB DATE: 11/18/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Firerescue1

Egypt-Ramseytown Volunteer Fire Department, Yancey County, NC, pumper-tanker. Freightliner M2 cab and chassis; Cummins ISL 350-hp engine; Hale Qmax 1,500-gpm pump.