An aggressive initial attack Sunday on a wildfire above the Broadview and Sleepy Hollow Heights neighborhoods slowed and eventually controlled what officials believe may be a human-caused blaze. Three water-hauling helicopters and ground crews totaling at least 100 firefighters corralled the 20-acre blaze Sunday evening as it burned near grassy hillsides still recovering from the devastating Sleepy Hollow Fire of 14 months ago.
- PUB DATE: 9/6/2016 3:13:43 AM - SOURCE: Wenatchee World

Stan Simi still responds to fires when they get big enough, and despite being 89 years old, he sees no reason to stop any time in the immediate future. “The way it is now, it is pretty easy for me,” said Simi, who has been chief of the River Delta Fire Protection District since 2009. “I have people doing everything that needs to be done .
- PUB DATE: 9/6/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Daily Republic

A Chelsea firefighter who “exemplified the fire service to the nth degree” lost the fight of his life on Saturday to aggressive esophageal cancer, the city’s director of Emergency Management and 911 Communications said yesterday. Peter Franz Kannler, a father of two from Townsend whose heroic struggle with the disease was profiled by the Boston Herald in February, was 37 years old.
- PUB DATE: 9/6/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Boston Herald