The absence of volunteers at the Colonial Volunteer Fire Co. has led to fire apparatus being unable to respond to emergency calls during the evening and overnight hours recently, officials say and documents show. The turnout has been so low in the past few months that the company's volunteer fire chief, Joseph Scharnitz Jr.
- PUB DATE: 6/29/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Trenton Times

Donald Farley, leader of the Bristol Fire Department’s Swift Water Rescue team, had barely made it into Rainelle when he ran out of road. Little Sewell Creek had already enveloped the small town in Greenbrier County with four to eight feet of muddy, turbulent water, leaving the few local emergency officials that were available nearly helpless.
- PUB DATE: 6/29/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Charleston Gazette-Mail

A member of the Dakota City Fire Department has died after suffering a heart attack while in the line of duty. Capt. Eric Speck, 38, died Monday after suffering from a heart attack on Thursday after responding to a medical call. Dakota City Fire Chief Clint Rasmussen said Speck had been complaining of chest pains during the call and traveled to the hospital afterward, where it was found he had suffered a heart attack.
- PUB DATE: 6/29/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: sioux city journal

Bridgeport Charter Township Fire Department, Bridgeport, MI, pumper. Spartan Metro Star cab and chassis; Cummins ISL9 450-hp engine; Hale Qmax 1,500-gpm pump.

Firefighters were able to rescue three dogs from a Tuesday evening mobile home fire in Washougal that sent one person to a hospital with smoke inhalation. Around 7:30 p.m., firefighters were called to a mobile home fire Gibbon Creek Mobile Estates in Washougal. They arrived to find a flames and smoke coming from a single-wide manufactured home and its attached covered porch, according to the Camas-Washougal Fire Department.
- PUB DATE: 6/28/2016 8:10:55 PM - SOURCE: Vancouver Columbian