A Grandview firefighter used an 8-foot hooked pole to pull a trapped colleague to safety this week. A pile of plaster from a building’s ceiling had fallen on a fire captain who had been trying to find a second-floor resident. He issued a “mayday” call, firefighter language for “man down.” The rescue was part of the drama associated with the fast-moving Grandview fire on Monday morning that killed one person, displaced eight and left the trapped firefighter with second-degree burns.
- PUB DATE: 10/8/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: kansas city star

City firefighters brought a 9-month-old boy to safety from a raging Brooklyn inferno on Wednesday. Smoke-eater Rhyan Wischertch, of Engine 283, carried infant Gerard DeBellot Jr., dressed in a maroon T-shirt with white stripes and swaddled in a baby blue towel, to awaiting EMS after the 2:59 p.m. blaze.
- PUB DATE: 10/8/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: new york daily news

A pile of mattresses on top of a cargo van sprang loose onto the New Jersey Turnpike Wednesday afternoon, forcing a tanker truck driver to swerve so suddenly that his truck flipped over a guardrail and instantly burst into flames, killing him, authorities and witnesses say. The fire on the northbound side of exit 15W in Kearny sent thick black smoke into the air that was visible from New York City as firefighters worked to douse the flames that raged around the charred carcass of the truck.
- PUB DATE: 10/8/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: nbc washington

A chunk of granite from the facade of the Murrah building in Oklahoma City now has a place in the National Fire Heritage Center here. It was delivered Tuesday afternoon by a contingent of Oklahoma City fire and state officials including Oklahoma Fire Marshal Robert Doke. On April 19, 1995, a truck bomb blew up in front of federal building leaving 168 dead and hundreds injured.
- PUB DATE: 10/8/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: firehouse

Fires ravaged the Northwest during yet another record fire season in both Oregon and Washington. Overall, it cost the Department of Natural Resources (and possibly other agencies) more than $560 million total to put out fires in both states. Washington got it the worst, with over 1 million acres burning throughout the summer.
- PUB DATE: 10/7/2015 7:49:33 PM - SOURCE: NBCRightNow.com