The sky in Fort McMurray now looks like a wall of fire and smoke as a mammoth inferno swallows parts of the Canadian city. Authorities ordered the evacuation of about 80,000 people, including the entire city of Fort McMurray in northern Alberta, the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo said Wednesday.
- PUB DATE: 5/4/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: cnn

Cleveland’s fire chief said Tuesday his department would repair broken equipment that left his firefighters without a way to refill their air tanks inside city limits. The comments came after newsnet5.com’s Derick Waller learned the department’s five air compressors were not operational. Instead, first responders had been taking daily trips to Valley View’s fire department fill up a Cleveland air tanker.
- PUB DATE: 5/4/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WEWS-TV IBS 5 Cleveland

Unless you meet Shari Curtright when she’s wearing the logo of Grays Harbor Fire District 8, you would never guess that the fit, petite 65-year-old is a firefighter. Or an EMT. But once you talk to her, and you hear the passion in her voice for the district and the community she calls home, you understand right away.
- PUB DATE: 5/4/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: the daily world

Unless you meet Shari Curtright when she’s wearing the logo of Grays Harbor Fire District 8, you would never guess that the fit, petite 65-year-old is a firefighter. Or an EMT. But once you talk to her, and you hear the passion in her voice for the district and the community she calls home, you understand right away.
- PUB DATE: 5/4/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: the daily world

Portland (MI) Area Fire Authority, pumper-tanker. Freightliner 114SD cab and chassis; Cummins ISL 450-hp engine; Waterous CSUC20C 1,500-gpm pump.