Don’t play with fire – that’s the message a bill before the S.C. Legislature aims to send to would-be arsonists. House Bill 3545 will restructure degrees of arson if the bill becomes law. Right now, state law doesn’t differentiate between type of buildings burned, and only levels a first-degree arson charge – the most serious kind – when there is a death, according to Jason Pope, deputy director of the South Carolina Firefighters Association.
- PUB DATE: 3/9/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: the state

When an explosion ripped into three buildings Wednesday morning in Seattle’s Greenwood neighborhood, a firefighter on duty put in an urgent call for backup. “Battalion Six, I need a full response … I have firefighters missing!”
- PUB DATE: 3/9/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Seattle Times

When an explosion ripped into three buildings Wednesday morning in Seattle’s Greenwood neighborhood, a firefighter on duty put in an urgent call for backup. “Battalion Six, I need a full response … I have firefighters missing!”
- PUB DATE: 3/9/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Seattle Times

(VIDEO) Firefighters are investigating an apartment fire in Pasco Tuesday afternoon. Crews were called out to the apartments on the 1800 block of North 21st Avenue just after noon and found a bottom floor unit with smoke coming out of it. "On arrival crews found smoke coming out of a bottom floor apartment quickly made entry knocked the fire down as far as I know, no reported injuries, crews checked the other apartments everything went fine quick knock down for them.
- PUB DATE: 3/8/2016 10:41:23 PM - SOURCE: NBCRightNow.com

(VIDEO) Firefighters are investigating an apartment fire in Pasco Tuesday afternoon. Crews were called out to the apartments on the 1800 block of North 21st Avenue just after noon and found a bottom floor unit with smoke coming out of it. "On arrival crews found smoke coming out of a bottom floor apartment quickly made entry knocked the fire down as far as I know, no reported injuries, crews checked the other apartments everything went fine quick knock down for them.
- PUB DATE: 3/8/2016 10:41:23 PM - SOURCE: NBCRightNow.com