VIDEO - Riding in a ladder truck bucket 67 feet in the air, Newberry Township volunteer firefighter Cody Zinn kept repeating the same thing. "Holy crap," said the 21-year-old as smoke from the home below reached high above his head. Zinn, who has cerebral palsy, was surprised with the ride in the ladder truck by Don Young, the assistant chief of the department.
- PUB DATE: 10/25/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: USA Today

A black Boston Fire Department inspector filed a lawsuit against the Boston Red Sox on Friday, six months after a black co-worker sued the team over an incident in which both men allege they were denied entry to Fenway Park to perform a safety inspection because of their race. Rhoan Dalmar, a city fire marshal, filed the civil complaint in Suffolk Superior Court.
- PUB DATE: 10/25/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Boston Globe

A trail that will lead visitors to the site where 19 Granite Mountain Hotshots died fighting the 2013 Yarnell Hill Fire is now nearly complete. Arizona State Parks officials reported this week that the Yarnell park that will honor the fallen Hotshots is expected to be finished and open to the public by late November.
- PUB DATE: 10/25/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Daily Courier

An investigative team with the Nebraska State Fire Marshal's Office says a living room fireplace is what started a fire that killed all six members of the Speer family on October 20th. Mike and Michelle Speer, with their four children all died in the blaze. A family member said firefighters found each of their bodies in beds.
- PUB DATE: 10/25/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KETV-TV ABC 7 Omaha

A heartbroken dad whose son was killed in a fiery head-on collision on Interstate 495 in Middleboro said "I love them all" as he spoke of his boy and three college buddies who died in a midnight crash police said was caused by a wrong-way driver. State police said the Sable was struck head-on by a 31-year-old woman behind the wheel of a 2011 Infiniti G37 headed southbound on northbound I-495 just after midnight yesterday.
- PUB DATE: 10/25/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Firehouse