Monday afternoon a District of Columbia fire truck smashed into a city police cruiser while on an emergency call and investigators are now looking into a possible brake issue. The fire engine was responding to a call for a report of a fire in a residential area of Northwest D.C. prior to the accident taking place.
- PUB DATE: 10/7/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: the daily caller

Grand Forks officials will have to look elsewhere to fund its emergency response training center. The city did not receive a Federal Emergency Management Agency grant worth nearly $2 million that would have assisted in building the training center. The grant was instead awarded to five other projects.
- PUB DATE: 10/7/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: grand forks herald

Coming at a time when we are raw from its association as a symbol of hate in the massacre of nine worshippers at a historic South Carolina Church, discussions about the history, meaning and display of the Confederate battle flag are passionate and divisive. In July, a Minnesota firefighter was suspended pending an investigation arising from flying the Confederate flag alongside the Stars and Stripes on a department truck in a 4th of July parade.
- PUB DATE: 10/7/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: firerescue1

Spartan ER—Midland (TX) Fire Department, 75-foot rear-mount aerial quint. Gladiator cab and chassis; Cummins ISX 500-hp engine; Waterous CSU 2,000-gpm pump

One person was reported to have died in a house fire in Shelton Monday night. Firefighters were called to the fire at South 10th Street and Railroad Avenue at 5 p.m. Chopper 7 was over the scene just after 6 p.m. when the fire had burned a hole in the roof. MasonWeb TV.com reports that one person was able to escape from the second floor, but a second person did not make it out and died in the fire.
- PUB DATE: 10/6/2015 7:37:15 AM - SOURCE: KIRO-TV CBS 7