Bellingham police say an arsonist may be targeting a business that serves people in need. Three mornings in a row last week someone has lit dumpsters and then a wall on fire behind the Bellingham Goodwill. Hermina Lolkena had just finished a shopping spree there when we caught up with her. She told us she got a heck of a deal.
- PUB DATE: 1/18/2016 8:55:51 PM - SOURCE: KIRO-TV CBS 7

Bellingham police say an arsonist may be targeting a business that serves people in need. Three mornings in a row last week someone has lit dumpsters and then a wall on fire behind the Bellingham Goodwill. Hermina Lolkena had just finished a shopping spree there when we caught up with her. She told us she got a heck of a deal.
- PUB DATE: 1/18/2016 8:55:51 PM - SOURCE: KIRO-TV CBS 7

Six fire departments under Grady County Emergency Management and the Amber Fire Department responded to the fire at the fracking site on Highway 39 run by Continental Resources.

Grady County officials said at least 40 sets of bunker gear and 3,000 feet of hose were soaked in crude oil and left unusable after battling the fire.

"It's a hard hit," said Mike Norman, fire chief for the Amber Fire Department. "Everything that was on that site that was going up in the air or that was below our feet, it was on us."

Noman said the Amber Fire Department sustained at least $20,000 worth of equipment damage.

"It hurts the pocketbook," Norman said. "We don't have the money, nor the funding, to come back and replenish this."

Dale Thompson, director of Grady County Emergency Management, said the organization is working with Continental Resources to get help for the fire departments.

Thompson said the fire departments will have to revert back to their old gear until they can get replacements for the gear that was damaged. Fire departments told KOCO that the damaged equipment will not impact fire response times.

For more information, view www.koco.com

 

 

A silver Nissan Sentra & HFD Fire Truck collide on Wall Triana @ 12:05pm. HPD says no major injuries. @whnt pic.twitter.com/NkQItgnTfD

— Courtney Crown (@CourtCrownWHNT) January 17, 2016

Huntsville police said a silver Nissan Sentra hit a Huntsville Fire Department truck near James Madison Drive and Wall Triana HWY around 12:05 p.m. Sunday afternoon.

Authorities say that there were minor injuries to one passenger in the car.

Huntsville Police are investigating the cause of the wreck.

For more information, view whnt.com

 

Two people were injured in a collision with a fire truck in Orange Park, late Friday night, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.

The fire truck was traveling south on Blanding Blvd. when it put on its siren and attempted to turn onto Kingsley Ave., according to FHP investigators.

The driver of a 2002 Saturn failed to stop at the intersection and hit the front side of the fire truck, leaving the driver in critical condition and the passenger with minor injuries.

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