Firefighters are crediting an off-duty Seattle police officer for pulling a crash victim from a burning car Monday evening on I-90. The crash happened just before 6 p.m. when someone in a truck didn't notice traffic had stopped on eastbound I-90 west of State Route 18. The driver rear-ended a car, which caused a chain reaction with several other vehicles, according to Battalion Chief Glenn Huffman with Eastside Fire and Rescue.
- PUB DATE: 7/19/2016 4:06:36 AM - SOURCE: KOMO News

Ingham Township Fire Chief Tim Whipple, who died Saturday at 55, is being remembered as a dedicated community servant and a leader who inspired his fellow firefighters. “These guys would follow him to the ends of the Earth because of the amount of trust they had for him,” said Delhi Township Fire Chief Brian Ball, who knew Whipple for 20 years.
- PUB DATE: 7/19/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: lansing state journal

City officials are mourning the loss of city firefighter Joseph DeMarinis, a Marine Corps veteran who died at age 32 last week. DeMarinis died Thursday of a "cardiac event" surrounded by his immediate relatives and members of his Clermont Fire Department family, according to the city. DeMarinis had been with the Clermont department since August 2014 and was assigned to Station 3.
- PUB DATE: 7/19/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: orlando sentinel

Arlington’s Fire Station 8 has stood along Lee Highway for nearly a century, founded by African American volunteers who feared that white emergency crews would not protect them or their homes. The county wants to replace the cramped, outdated facility with a modern one farther north, where response times lag well behind the county standard.
- PUB DATE: 7/19/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Washington Post - metered site

Two construction workers had to jump to safety after a welding blanket caught fire on a scissor lift basket at the new Simplot headquarters in downtown Boise. Boise Fire says the construction workers were treated for smoke inhalation and minor burns, but were released on scene. "They were on the lift and it was a long ways for them to be able to make it over to the side of the building to jump off," Boise Fire safety spokesman Jason Lewis said.
- PUB DATE: 7/19/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KBCI-TV 2 Boise