CHARLESTOWN (CBS) – A fire jumped to six alarms Friday morning as flames ripped through a building on Bunker Hill Street in Charlestown.



Flames broke out just before 7 a.m. in a building at 144 Bunker Hill Street, a three-floor building with a business on the first floor and apartments upstairs.

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A motor home that caught fire on a downtown street Thursday morning sent a man to the hospital with minor injuries and resulted in a total loss of the vehicle. Firefighters with the Bellingham Fire Department responded to the fire along the 1300 block of Cornwall Avenue at about 8:30 a.m., said Assistant Chief Bill Hewett.
- PUB DATE: 12/16/2016 1:47:34 AM - SOURCE: Bellingham Herald

Because of yet another mix-up with bioterror pathogens, a federal terrorism response training center in Alabama says it mistakenly exposed more than 9,600 firefighters, paramedics and other students to a deadly toxin over the past five years. The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Center for Domestic Preparedness blames an outside laboratory for a series of shipping errors since 2011 that resulted in the first-responder training center using in its classes a potentially lethal form of ricin powder.
- PUB DATE: 12/16/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: USA Today

As Oakland firefighters pulled up to the burning Ghost Ship warehouse the night of Dec. 2, they weren’t exactly sure what they were dealing with — whether anyone was trapped or what they would encounter inside — but they didn’t assume it was a vacant building. Public safety officials in Oakland have long been aware that people live and party in warehouses — some firefighters say they can tell whether one is inhabited just by looking at its exterior.
- PUB DATE: 12/16/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle

Acting United States Attorney Beth Drake today announced that a Charleston Grand Jury has returned a two-count indictment charging St. Paul’s Fire District Chief Doc McNeil Matthews, 47, of Hollywood; Assistant Chief Charles Riddle, 44, of Goose Creek; and Mary Jo Thomas-Delaney, 67, of Summerville, with fraud and embezzlement from a federally funded organization.
- PUB DATE: 12/16/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WCBD-TV Charleston 2