Local leaders gathered on Wednesday night to voice their concerns over oil trains passing through Spokane. City officials have met to discuss oil trains in the past, but Wednesday’s meeting welcomed the voices of local emergency responders. Among them was the head of the local fire union who said that he and his fellow responders would be totally unprepared for an oil train disaster.
- PUB DATE: 6/30/2016 5:53:18 AM - SOURCE: KREM-TV CBS 2

An Irvington fire chief who stopped a man's vicious knife attack on his girlfriend last April has received national recognition for his heroism. Christopher T. DePaoli is one of 23 recipients of a medal for heroism from the Pittsburgh-based Carnegie Hero Fund Commission. DePaoli was with his two daughters near the Irvington train platform when he saw a man repeatedly stab a woman in the back and near area.
- PUB DATE: 6/30/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: NY Journal News (Lohud.com)

They can't shake the images from their minds. Bodies and blood in a sea of chaos. Off-duty Orlando police Officer James Hyland was working private security the morning of June 12 when he heard the call over his radio. He drove his pickup truck into the parking lot as terrified patrons spilled out of Pulse nightclub about 2 a.
- PUB DATE: 6/30/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: cnn

An EMT and former military police officer videotaped himself swallowing a bullet with a beer chaser before prosecutors say he fatally shot a rookie Stoneham firefighter at point-blank range during a drunken game of dare between friends. When first responders found David Atherton, 24, dead on his back and drenched in blood late Tuesday night on the kitchen floor of his Congress Street apartment in Stoneham, authorities said his childhood pal Patrick Riccardi-O’Connor told them through tears Atherton had killed himself after asking him, “Do you trust me?” “They were drinking in the deceased’s home.
- PUB DATE: 6/30/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: boston herald

VIDEO - It was a ride at least a dozen passengers on board the Silver Bullet say they'll never forgot. Just as the Frontier City roller coaster reached the top, something went wrong. Frontier City told News 9 a malfunction was the result of the lift stalling Wednesday afternoon. The car simply didn't have enough momentum to make it over the first hill.
- PUB DATE: 6/30/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KWTV-TV Oklahoma City