Two people escaped without injuries but were transported to Providence Centralia Hospital for treatment for possible smoke inhalation after a fire that damaged a Centralia home Monday morning. At 6:45 a.m. on Monday, crews from the Riverside Fire Authority responded to a report of a fire in the 800 block of J Street.
- PUB DATE: 11/15/2016 3:12:15 AM - SOURCE: Centralia Chronicle

Talk about narrow escapes. Rescuers managed to squeeze a fall victim out of an O'Hara Township water tower through what amounts to a large wire and tubing conduit. The man, who was part of a cleaning crew preparing the tower for painting, tumbled 35 to 40 feet into the tank when his scaffolding failed, according to officials.
- PUB DATE: 11/15/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

To better understand what impacts the fire service may see from a Trump administration and Republican controlled Congress, we reached out to several key fire service leaders for their perspectives. We asked them to identify what they saw as the biggest opportunities and threats the coming year will bring.
- PUB DATE: 11/15/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: FireChief.com

Finally, they put a helmet on that marker. St. Louis firefighters, about a battalion's worth, assembled Monday morning at Bellefontaine Cemetery to literally cap off a firefighters' monument that has gone topless since the 1910s. "The fire department is all about tradition," St. Louis Fire Chief Dennis Jenkerson said.
- PUB DATE: 11/15/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: St. Louis Post-Dispatch

When it comes to fire forensics, 33-year Vallejo resident John DeHaan, literally wrote the book — the textbook that is most used nationwide by those going into the field of arson investigations. Basically, DeHaan is a real Sherlock Holmes, surrounded by books, pamphlets and plaques, in his unassuming offices on Georgia Street downtown Vallejo.
- PUB DATE: 11/15/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Vallejo Times-Herald