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Posted: Aug 9, 2016

Even with court orders, injured Missouri firefighter waits to get paid

For almost three years now, Cindy Schuenke has had a court order demanding that she be reinstated as a firefighter with the Community Fire Protection District in north St. Louis County. The order makes it clear the district is to give the Pacific woman, 52, back pay to Aug. 9, 2009, when the fire district’s board illegally fired her.
- PUB DATE: 8/9/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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Posted: Aug 9, 2016

Former Arizona firefighter arrested after stepping onto firetruck at fire

A former Oatman firefighter was arrested Sunday when he tried to help efforts to put out a fire but refused orders to stand down. Jonathan Bradley Blake, 33, of Oatman, was arrested on suspicion of obstructing governmental operations, according to Mohave County Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman Trish Carter.
- PUB DATE: 8/9/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Mohave Daily News
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Posted: Aug 9, 2016

Neighbors work together with fire department to fight house fire in Asotin

“A crash of thunder and a lightning bolt hit and it shook everything up around here,” said Mike Feil, neighbor. Caught on camera, a house goes up in flames after it’s hit by lightning. It happened during yesterday (Sunday) morning’s round of thunder and lightning. Neighbors say all of sudden, they bear a ‘boom’ then saw flames.
- PUB DATE: 8/9/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: klewtv
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Posted: Aug 9, 2016

Homemade cockroach-killing flamethrower sparks Centralia apartment fire

A resident ignited a small fire in a Centralia apartment while trying to kill cockroaches with a homemade flamethrower, fire officials said. Fire crews responded to the scene, in the 300 block of North Tower Avenue, on Monday morning after receiving a report of a commercial structure fire. By the time firefighters arrived, the resident had managed to extinguish the flames.
- PUB DATE: 8/8/2016 9:00:18 PM - SOURCE: KOMO News
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Posted: Aug 8, 2016

Cops: Teen in RV Hits Gwinnett (GA) Fire Apparatus

A Gwinnett County teenager had to be apprehended via K9 Sunday after driving an RV into a fire truck, police said.
Gwinnett police spokesman Cpl. Collin Flynn said the 17-year-old Lilburn resident -- who did not have a driver's license -- was driving the RV on Five Forks-Trickum Road when he "struck the rear of a passenger car in front of him."

"After that collision, [he] traveled into the next lane of travel and struck a Gwinnett County fire truck," Flynn wrote in a news release.

The teen drove away but was followed by a witness. Police officers soon found the RV too, and the teenager tried to run away.

"Officers set up a perimeter and [the suspect] was apprehended with the assistance of a K9 unit," Flynn said.

Photos taken by the police department showed significant damage to both the RV and fire truck, but no injuries were reported in that collision. The driver of the first vehicle hit by the RV was taken to Eastside Medical Center with non-life threatening injuries, Flynn said.

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