The Oswego Common Council voted unanimously tonight to approve the 2017 budget that will eliminate 16 full-time firefighter positions and raise taxes by 1.97 percent. A public hearing, which was held before the vote, drew a standing-room-only crowd to City Hall. People packed the chambers and the hallway, but only four people spoke against the budget.
- PUB DATE: 8/24/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Syracuse.com

Highway 9 is an ordinary Arkansas country road. It has turn after turn but Sunday morning a Choctaw firefighter took a turn for the worse on the state highway. "My heart just sunk," says Choctaw Fire Chief Lamar Harvey. Harvey says his volunteer firefighter was headed to a house fire when he lost control, rolled over multiple times and crashed into a creek.
- PUB DATE: 8/24/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: nwahomepage,com

During mealtimes at the fire camp at the Spokane County Fairgrounds you’ll see worn out firefighters headed back from 12 to 14 hour days. Those crews are hoping for a hot meal and a good night’s sleep. And you’ll see people in red shirts serving those hot meals. “These gentlemen are the guys who provide the meals for everybody.
- PUB DATE: 8/23/2016 11:07:08 PM - SOURCE: KAYU-TV MyFox Spokane

Rhode Island Fire Academy, pumper. International 4400 cab and chassis; MaxxForce 9 330-hp engine; Hale Qflo 1,250-gpm single-stage pump.

At last report at least 13 homes had burned in the Cayuse Mountain Fire burning in Stevens County. One of those homes had been in a volunteer firefighter’s family for more than 40 years. The family thought it was in the clear, but then the flames returned. “Everything around it was burning, but the house wasn’t on fire.
- PUB DATE: 8/23/2016 7:47:28 PM - SOURCE: KAYU-TV MyFox Spokane