The sirens sound the same, but the fire engine serving Cherry Valley the past few days is dressed with a Rockford Fire Department logo. Blame it on the curse of three. For the Cherry Valley Fire Protection District, the curse struck when its trio of fire engines all wound up in the shop. "Everything broke at the same time, it seems," said Allen Geeser, battalion fire chief for the district.
- PUB DATE: 8/2/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Rockford Register Star

Protecting their firefighters, that’s what the Clarkston Fire Department is doing with a new exhaust removal system. KLEW News Reporter Kaila Lafferty explains it will help the lives of those who spend their time saving ours. Firefighters are exposed to dangers everyday as part of their job, but one of the most deadly is cancer.
- PUB DATE: 8/2/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KLEW News

Thornapple Township Fire Department, Middleville, MI, pumper. Spartan Metro Star cab and chassis; Cummins ISL9 450-hp engine; Hale DSD 1,500-gpm pump.

Two juveniles who started a fire inside the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Hazel Dell earlier this year have been sentenced in juvenile court. Ammon D. Wells, 15, was sentenced Thursday to 15 days in detention, 12 months of probation and 40 hours of community service in connection with the April 8 fire, which destroyed a pulpit inside the church, according to records filed in juvenile court.
- PUB DATE: 8/1/2016 8:47:40 PM - SOURCE: Vancouver Columbian

Seattle fire investigators say an arsonist is at work in the North Seattle and Ballard neighborhoods. Officials say they have evidence that four fires this weekend could be related. Lauren Hohenstein first noticed a large fire just below her apartment window early Monday morning. "It was terrifying," she said.
- PUB DATE: 8/1/2016 7:53:54 PM - SOURCE: KOMO-TV ABC 4 and Radio 1000