A long-running feud between the Wilkes-Barre Township Volunteer Fire Department and a resident over the direction of a surveillance camera has been settled, according to court documents. U.S. District Judge A. Richard Caputo on Thursday dismissed the complaint Joseph Naperkowski filed a few years back, writing in a brief order that the matter has been settled for an unspecified amount.
- PUB DATE: 9/16/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Wilkes-Barre Citizens' Voice

More than $10,000 worth of equipment has been stolen from Canadian firefighters who are here to honor fallen firefighters. They stored their large tents, tables and other things needed for the annual memorial in Colorado Springs, but it wasn't until this week when they found out it was all missing. Their equipment was supposed to be set up in Memorial Park next to the IAFF Fallen Fire Fighter Memorial this weekend.
- PUB DATE: 9/16/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KOAA-TV NBC 5 & 30 Colorado Springs

PHOTO - One person was killed in a 9:22 a.m. wreck involving three vehicles on U.S. Highway 101 near Laird Road, west of Port Angeles. Clallam Fire District No. 2 Assistant Chief Dan Huff reported that the driver of a Ford Bronco died at Olympic Medical Center as a result of injuries from the wreck.
- PUB DATE: 9/16/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Peninsula Daily News

A century of fire suppression has its side effects in the forest: The buildup of fuel. Bushes, small trees, dead branches, deep layers of grass and dried needles. Fire experts say that kind of material used to burn off naturally in low intensity fires that left trees standing to live hundreds of years.
- PUB DATE: 9/15/2016 10:29:58 PM - SOURCE: KING-TV NBC 5

Lovington (IL) Fire Protection District light-duty rescue. Ford F-550 cab and chassis; 6.7-liter 300-hp engine; 14.6-foot Hackney seven-compartment walk-around rescue body.