By their very nature emergencies don’t follow the routine script. Duane Kling, Moses Lake, an instructor for the Air Rescue Firefighter program at Big Bend Community College, used the example of the door on a large commercial aircraft. Those things are meticulously engineered, to the point where a 120-pound flight attendant can open an 800-pound door, he said.
- PUB DATE: 5/25/2016 2:46:11 AM - SOURCE: Columbia Basin Herald

A dilapidated farm building in the Custer area caught fire from a nearby burn pile as it was being demolished Tuesday afternoon, May 24. North Whatcom and Lynden firefighters responded to the fire at 2424 Zell Road just before 3 p.m., said Assistant Fire Chief Robert Spinner. When firefighters arrived, the 20-by-50-foot storage shack was engulfed.
- PUB DATE: 5/25/2016 2:32:04 AM - SOURCE: Bellingham Herald

A dilapidated farm building in the Custer area caught fire from a nearby burn pile as it was being demolished Tuesday afternoon, May 24. North Whatcom and Lynden firefighters responded to the fire at 2424 Zell Road just before 3 p.m., said Assistant Fire Chief Robert Spinner. When firefighters arrived, the 20-by-50-foot storage shack was engulfed.
- PUB DATE: 5/25/2016 2:32:04 AM - SOURCE: Bellingham Herald

Seven months after two firefighters died fighting a fire on Independence Boulevard, the Kansas City Fire Department produced a report on the deaths and a set of recommendations to improve firefighter safety. Kansas City firefighters John Mesh and Larry Leggio died when a brick wall collapsed and fell on them during the Oct.
- PUB DATE: 5/25/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: kansas city star

The head of the Apopka Fire Department has left his post after ratifying a separation agreement he previously said the city was pressuring him to sign. Former chief fire administrator Lee Bronson will get 20 weeks of severance pay and compensation for his accumulated leave under the agreement. "This is his second retirement from the city, and we certainly wish him well," Apopka spokesman Robert Sargent said Tuesday.
- PUB DATE: 5/25/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: orlando sentinel