Firefighters are out in freezing temperatures Wednesday morning battling a fire in the Maple Leaf neighborhood of North Seattle. The fire at a home on Northeast 94th Street and 17th Avenue Northeast was called out at about 4:20 a.m. Firefighters say the home started in the basement, extended out the window, up the side of the building and into the attic.
- PUB DATE: 12/7/2016 6:44:17 AM - SOURCE: KIRO-TV CBS 7

A date which will live in infamy was also a day the Honolulu Fire Department unexpectedly went to war. On Dec. 7, 1941, Engine 6 was the first to respond to Hickam Airfield. “They were used to seeing practice anti-aircraft artillery and they knew that to be white smoke, white puffs in the sky,” said Capt.
- PUB DATE: 12/7/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KHON2

The recovery effort from the aftermath of a devastating Fruitvale District warehouse fire that killed 36 people has been completed, authorities announced Wednsday morning. The death total did not rise as crews combed through the final 10 percent of the building known as the “Ghost Ship.” Authorities did not say what time they finished the search.
- PUB DATE: 12/7/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Mercury News

Last December an unlikely confrontation unfolded during a fire at a home in Hyattsville. Prosecutors allege two volunteer firefighters fought a career female firefighter over who got to enter the home first and be in charge of the scene. Authorities claim Chris Kelly, out of the West Lanham Hills station, hit the career female firefighter knocking her off the front porch.
- PUB DATE: 12/7/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WJLA-TV ABC 7 Washington

A Flint apartment complex fire that left three firefighters injured last month pushed the Flint Fire Department to its limits that day. Not only did it require every firefighter on duty that day -- 14 in all -- the fire at Village Shores Apartments also forced the city to call in mutual aid because the department's two ladder trucks were both in the repair shop.
- PUB DATE: 12/7/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: mlive.com