VIDEO - It’s a warm afternoon in late May. The skies are partly cloudy over Portland Fire & Rescue’s Northeast Portland training center, but closer to the ground new recruits are feeling 100 percent humidity. “Grab hold of it!” Yells one firefighter-in-training as he pounces atop a flailing fire hose.
- PUB DATE: 5/26/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KGW-TV Northwest News Channel 8

As firefighters braved the smoke and flames from the ground and rooftops, a small object soared above their heads Wednesday morning, trying to assist their efforts as a five-alarm fire ripped through a Santa Clara, California, strip mall. The drone was sent up by the Santa Clara Fire Department volunteers to try to pinpoint how to best fight the blaze, which affected about a dozen small shops and restaurants in the Koreatown mall.
- PUB DATE: 5/26/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: nbc washington

The former bookkeeper for the Pinckneyville Rural Fire Protection District has been sentenced to 33 months in federal prison for defrauding the district of over $444,000, the U.S. Attorney's office said. Tammy L. Kellerman, 53, of Pinckneyville, used district checks to pay her credit card bills and other expenses from 2004-2013, prosecutors said, covering up the theft by making false entries.
- PUB DATE: 5/26/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: st. louis post-dispatch

The National Interagency Fire Center has mobilized over 200 firefighters to help fight a massive wildfire burning in Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada. Five of the crews flew out of Boise this morning and another five flew out of Missoula, Montana. NIFC spokesperson Jessica Gardetto says Canadian crews have helped fight U.
- PUB DATE: 5/26/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KTVB-TV NBC 7

Capt. Paul Phillips has been long gone, but Lt. Jason Brod can still hear his voice whenever he visits the training grounds next to Bonita Springs Fire Station 4. "Every time I've been out here since he left us — come out here to train, come out here to do stuff — I hear that voice echoing off these walls," said Brod, standing in front of the station's redbrick training tower, surrounded by Phillips' friends, family and former colleagues.
- PUB DATE: 5/26/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: naples daily news