PHOTO - A town of Harrison firetruck suffered significant damage to its front end after it slid down a steep, icy private road and rolled over Sunday afternoon. Town Manager George “Bud” Finch said the driver, veteran volunteer firefighter Maurice Kautz, suffered minor cuts and bruises but was not seriously injured.
- PUB DATE: 1/19/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: portland press-herald

VIDEO - A camera atop a firefighter's helmet, captured the dramatic rescue of a Fresno family from an apartment fire. Crews helped a total of seven people escape from the fire in central Fresno on Saturday, including a family of three on the second floor whose only way out was through a window. Fire had taken over the stairwell and the smoke was too thick to walk through.
- PUB DATE: 1/19/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KTVU-TV Oakland, San Francisco, Bay Area

A federal investigator has obtained a warrant to search a laptop computer for evidence that a New Mexico urban search-and-rescue team used falsified training certificates to meet national requirements and retain federal funding. One of the fraudulent training certificates was for an ethics training class, according to the search warrant request filed Wednesday in U.
- PUB DATE: 1/19/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: santa fe new mexican

A judge has dismissed a wrongful-death lawsuit claiming the city should be held partially responsible for the death of a 19-year-old woman who was killed when the car she was riding in ran a red light and was broadsided by a fire truck. The crash occurred June 20, 2013, when a Honda Accord driven by Robbie Dean Gillespie, 45, ran a red light on Midland Road at Poway Road about 4 a.
- PUB DATE: 1/19/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: san diego union-tribune

Kenny Bower stood on a steep, grassy hillside overlooking the Waldo Canyon burn scar with his ear cocked toward his radio. His firefighting tool was still by his side while he listened to the transmission - winds were picking up, humidity was dropping and nearby trees were starting to ignite. He called out the warning to his crew and bent back to his work cutting a line into the dirt up the hill.
- PUB DATE: 1/19/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: the gazette