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Posted: Feb 9, 2016

Milford bucket truck burns while on loan to Medway

MEDWAY - Power lines and tree branches weren't the only casualties of a weekend sandwiched by snowstorms. A bucket truck Medway Fire Department had borrowed to repair electrical problems caught fire Saturday.Luckily, no one was hurt. But Medway had the truck on loan from Milford.On how much the truck costs, Milford Fire Chief Bill Touhey said he doesn't know.
Power lines and tree branches weren't the only casualties of a weekend sandwiched by snowstorms. A bucket truck Medway Fire Department had borrowed to repair electrical problems was destroyed by fire Saturday.
No one was hurt but Medway had the truck on loan from Milford.
Regarding how much the truck costs, Milford Fire Chief Bill Touhey said he doesn’t know. The truck is 28 years old, he said - a 1988 Ford.
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Posted: Feb 9, 2016

Vancouver firefighters respond to apartment fire

Vancouver firefighters were busy Tuesday morning, responding to a blaze at the Redwood Acres Apartment Complex. The call came in around 5:15 a.m. at the complex on Northeast 62nd Avenue, near Fourth Plain Boulevard. Firefighters told KGW-TV ithe fire started in a bedroom in a unit on the third floor.
- PUB DATE: 2/9/2016 8:43:52 AM - SOURCE: kgw
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Posted: Feb 9, 2016

Vancouver firefighters respond to apartment fire

Vancouver firefighters were busy Tuesday morning, responding to a blaze at the Redwood Acres Apartment Complex. The call came in around 5:15 a.m. at the complex on Northeast 62nd Avenue, near Fourth Plain Boulevard. Firefighters told KGW-TV ithe fire started in a bedroom in a unit on the third floor.
- PUB DATE: 2/9/2016 8:43:52 AM - SOURCE: kgw
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Posted: Feb 9, 2016

INCREDIBLE SURVIVAL: South Glengarry firefighter tells wife 'Alex was watching'

CORNWALL, Ontario - How South Glengarry firefighter Randy Robertson survived a harrowing rollover accident on Highway 401 Saturday is anyone's guess - except his. "He told me our nephew Alexander was watching over him," said Robertson's wife Debbie Julien on Sunday, barely 24 hours after Robertson was nearly killed while responding in a fire truck to another accident on the busy provincial thoroughfare.

The tanker truck Robertson was driving rolled multiple times on a snowy Saturday morning. He was left partially hanging from the vehicle which appears nearly destroyed in images shared with this newspaper.


His injuries read like a laundry list of life-threatening ailments: a collapsed lung, broken shoulder, broken collar bone, broken vertebrae, internal bleeding and a deep gash on his head. A chest tube has also been inserted.


Doctors, who have informed Julien that her husband is expected to recover, are expected to make a decision on surgery concerning his badly injured back.


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Posted: Feb 9, 2016

Fire department uses award to buy rescue equipment

BENTON - The Benton Volunteer Fire Department will use money from a recent award to buy an unusual, yet vital piece of rescue equipment. The fire department received the 2015 Gary Garverick Memorial Award, which is funded by the Finger Lakes Health Foundation. It will help them buy a grain bin rescue tube.

The Benton Volunteer Fire Department will use money from a recent award to buy an unusual, yet vital piece of rescue equipment.


The fire department received the 2015 Gary Garverick Memorial Award, which is funded by the Finger Lakes Health Foundation. It will help them buy a grain bin rescue tube.


Fire department officials said the apparatus is the only such equipment in Yates County.


Daniel Martin, EMS captain for the department, said many grain storage bins have been built in the county recently and more are planned. The rescue tube would free a person who became trapped in flowing grain.


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