Mark Johnson was elected chief of the Bel Air Volunteer Fire Company this week, the pinnacle of a volunteer fire service career that started 18 years ago as the result of seeing an ad in the newspaper. Johnson, a resident of Bel Air, was 34 years old, with two young children, in 1998 when he was sitting in the Bagel Works restaurant near the main South Hickory Avenue firehouse, reading The Aegis.
- PUB DATE: 9/9/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Baltimore Sun

At around 10:26 this morning, McClure Elementary School was evacuated after the smell of gas filled classrooms. "Luckily staff pulled the pull box, evacuated the kids and no one was injured, but we did have a little bit of a gas odor inside of the building," said Jeff Pfaff, PIO for the Yakima Fire Department.
- PUB DATE: 9/8/2016 9:21:13 PM - SOURCE: kndu

Fire officials said someone drained the gas from a fire truck in Stevens County. Stevens County Fire District Commissioner Arden Fritz posted on Facebook that the truck was parked on the Evans Cutoff to help his fire district. This was to help with response to people living on Williams Lake Road. He said thankful they did not have to respond to a fire, but it could have been a bad situation if they did.
- PUB DATE: 9/8/2016 9:13:04 PM - SOURCE: Northwest Cable News

Charles McKenzie, the Spokane firefighters injured in an apartment fire in north Spokane Wednesday was transferred to Seattle's Harborview Hospital for treatment of his burns. McKenzie was injured the during the two-alarm fire at the Rosewood Club Apartments trying to save two people. Those people, a man and a woman, unfortunately, didn't make it.
- PUB DATE: 9/8/2016 8:41:09 PM - SOURCE: kndu

A fire at a North Spokane apartment complex killed two people Wednesday afternoon. Officials said the blaze was hotter than most other fires. Wednesday, fire officials explained how one of their men was hurt as he tried to rescue two people inside the Rosewood Club Apartments on Magnesium Road. Firefighters said the heat from the fire blew the glass out of a rear sliding glass door and allowed a lot of oxygen to get inside.
- PUB DATE: 9/8/2016 7:47:16 PM - SOURCE: KREM-TV CBS 2