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

Battle Creek (MI) Fire Department, pumper. Spartan Metro Star cab and chassis; Cummins ISL9 450-hp engine; APR polypropylene 1,000-gallon tank.

Firefighters in Yakima say 15 people have been displaced after a fire broke out at a duplex, early Wednesday morning. Firefighters say around 12:30 a.m. they were called to the 1100 block of W. Washington Ave. When crews arrived, they found flames burning throughout one unit of the duplex. They say flames spread quickly, reaching a detached two story house nearby.
- PUB DATE: 5/25/2016 8:44:06 PM - SOURCE: kndu