The owners of the Pater Avenue home where a Hamilton firefighter was killed Dec. 28 while battling a fire say they will never be able to return there even if repairs are made. “My wife won’t live there again, and I don’t blame her after the firefighter was killed there,” said Lester Parker, 66, of Hamilton.
- PUB DATE: 1/15/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Journal-News

World Trade Center responder John Coughlin of Sayville suffers from a host of conditions: heart disease that led to open-heart surgery and a pacemaker; diminished lung capacity; sleep apnea; and stomach disorders. But the 57-year-old former NYPD emergency services officer, who responded when the towers fell on Sep.
- PUB DATE: 1/15/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: firehouse

On the same day two more structures were set ablaze in Auburn, police have arrested the man they believe set fires to twenty structures over the last few months. Police linked the suspect, a man in his 20s, to a fingerprint on a car that was found burned a couple months ago. They've been monitoring him since and said he was spotted near two suspicious fires that happened early Thursday morning.
- PUB DATE: 1/14/2016 8:13:18 PM - SOURCE: KING-TV NBC 5

On the same day two more structures were set ablaze in Auburn, police have arrested the man they believe set fires to twenty structures over the last few months. Police linked the suspect, a man in his 20s, to a fingerprint on a car that was found burned a couple months ago. They've been monitoring him since and said he was spotted near two suspicious fires that happened early Thursday morning.
- PUB DATE: 1/14/2016 8:13:18 PM - SOURCE: KING-TV NBC 5

The Board of Fire Commissioners for Stevens County Fire Protection District 1 voted unanimously to re-run the station replacement bond. The bond failed during the November 3, 2015, general election by 28 votes. However, there were many ballots that did not have the bond initiative printed on them. The Fire District estimates that between 134 and 287 ballots were blank.
- PUB DATE: 1/14/2016 3:39:05 PM - SOURCE: KXLY-TV ABC 4