A natural gas explosion rocked a Seattle neighborhood early Wednesday, sending nine firefighters to the hospital and reducing businesses to rubble. Crews were responding to reports of a natural gas leak when the explosion happened along the main thoroughfare of the city's Greenwood neighborhood, just north of downtown, Seattle Fire Department spokeswoman Corey Orvold said.
- PUB DATE: 3/9/2016 5:26:34 AM - SOURCE: KOMO-TV ABC 4 and Radio 1000

Preston Hoffman saw the man first, face down in the water 40 feet below. His friends — girlfriend Marisa Fernandez and roommate Jake Schipper — heard the thud and splash, too, as the group strung up a hammock on a drizzly Saturday, March 5, at an outcropping that overlooks Wildcat Cove at Larrabee State Park.
- PUB DATE: 3/9/2016 1:55:03 AM - SOURCE: Bellingham Herald

Preston Hoffman saw the man first, face down in the water 40 feet below. His friends — girlfriend Marisa Fernandez and roommate Jake Schipper — heard the thud and splash, too, as the group strung up a hammock on a drizzly Saturday, March 5, at an outcropping that overlooks Wildcat Cove at Larrabee State Park.
- PUB DATE: 3/9/2016 1:55:03 AM - SOURCE: Bellingham Herald

Nine Seattle firefighters were injured in an apparent natural gas explosion that leveled at least three businesses in the Greenwood neighborhood early Wednesday morning. The explosion happened in the area of the Greenwood Quick Stop Market at N. 85th Street and Greenwood Avenue N. just before 1:45 a.
- PUB DATE: 3/9/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KOMO-TV ABC 4

A Detroit emergency medical technician was attacked on a run Tuesday evening, city officials said. The worker was in stable condition at St. John Hospital after the attack with a department radio, said Detroit Senior Firefighter James Plieth. Two EMTs were responding to a medical emergency in the 4600 block of Chatsworth on the city’s east side about 7:30 p.
- PUB DATE: 3/9/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: the detroit news