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- PUB DATE: 9/8/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Firechief.com

Two people are dead and a firefighter is in the hospital after a fire at an apartment complex in north Spokane. The firefighter sustained second and third-degree burns while trying to save the two people inside. At last report the firefighter was in serious condition. .The 29-year-old probationary firefighter has burns to his upper torso.
- PUB DATE: 9/8/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KHQ-TV NBC 6

This 1997 pumper was recently refurbished by the Stone Park (IL) Fire Department.

Fire crews on the scene of a two-alarm apartment fire in North Spokane report two people have died Wednesday evening as a result of the fire. Crews on the scene say an adult woman and an adult man have died, but those people have not been identified. A firefighter was injured while trying to save those two people.
- PUB DATE: 9/7/2016 8:14:39 PM - SOURCE: KHQ-TV NBC 6