Facing mounting financial losses and a burned-out volunteer staff, Bath is prepared to end its EMS service for good. Instead, the borough's roughly 2,700 residents will be served by Bethlehem Township EMS, an agency that's no stranger to the borough, having served as the advanced life support service for more than 35 years.
- PUB DATE: 8/4/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Allentown Morning Call

A fire broke out Wednesday afternoon in the apartment of a volunteer firefighter who received a threatening and racist letter earlier this week. Firefighters were called early Wednesday afternoon to the blaze at an apartment house at 1096 Oliver St. in North Tonawanda where Kenneth Walker lives. When the fire was discovered, Walker said that no one was in his apartment, where he lives with his wife and their two children.
- PUB DATE: 8/4/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Buffalo News

It can come down to a matter of minutes. “It can be the difference between life and death” Chief Richard White of the Natick Fire Department told FOX25. In the Natick , there are four fire stations to serve 32,000 people and the average response time is below the national standard of 6.5 minutes set by the National Fire Protection Association, or NFPA.
- PUB DATE: 8/4/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: fox25boston.com

It's a warm, sunny morning at the Homestead National Monument of America in southeastern Nebraska. A burn crew dressed in yellow and green flame-resistant clothing is about to set a patch of tall-grass prairie on fire — on purpose. These kind of burns aren't unusual. But today's burn is; a team from the University of Nebraska is testing a fire-starting drone.
- PUB DATE: 8/4/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: kuow.org

East Chatham (NY) Fire Company, Maverick pumper-tanker. Freightliner cab and chassis; Cummins ISL9 350-hp engine; Waterous CXVK 1,250-gpm pump; UPF Poly 2,000-gallon tank.