The Fayetteville Fire Department is ramping up efforts to recruit minorities as it struggles, like many other fire agencies, to diversify its workforce. Only 3.2 percent of Fayetteville firefighters are black - a figure that trails state and national averages. Put another way, nine in every 10 Fayetteville firefighters is white in a city where about 42 percent of the residents are black.
- PUB DATE: 6/13/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: fayetteville observer

Fire severely damaged the Meadow Lakes home of Houston Fire Chief Tom Hood Friday, leaving him and his family seeking temporarily shelter from the Red Cross. Mat-Su Borough emergency responders were dispatched to the fire at about 2:30 p.m., and by about 3:45 p.m., the main body of the fire was extinguished, leaving only spot fires inside the structure to be extinguished, according to incident commander and West Lakes Fire Chief John Fairchild.
- PUB DATE: 6/13/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Wasilla Frontiersman

The wildfire here last August was so hot and fast that not even metal buildings surrounded by concrete and asphalt could defend Lake Chelan Building Supply from being destroyed in the firestorm. The Chelan Complex Fire "melted the windows, swept into the buildings and burned from the inside out," said Brett La Mar, owner and general manager of the Chelan lumberyard.
- PUB DATE: 6/13/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: firehouse

The wildfire here last August was so hot and fast that not even metal buildings surrounded by concrete and asphalt could defend Lake Chelan Building Supply from being destroyed in the firestorm. The Chelan Complex Fire "melted the windows, swept into the buildings and burned from the inside out," said Brett La Mar, owner and general manager of the Chelan lumberyard.
- PUB DATE: 6/13/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: firehouse

Cutlerville Fire Department, Grand Rapids, MI, pumper. Spartan Metro Star cab and chassis; Cummins ISL9 450-hp engine.