About 108 homes in the Three Forks community are damaged thanks to last week's storms. The Three Forks Volunteer Fire Department confirms about 48 of them are total losses. The tornado also flattened the fire station.

"It's just a slab now," said Chief Joey Jackson.

In the yellow lines, where fire trucks once parked, is now just mud and mess.

"This is their lifeline. We're the ones that go out to help them when they need something, and then we come here and we don't have anything," Jackson said.

Jackson said his station had five equipment trucks of varying kinds.

All that's left Monday is one that does not work, on loan from the Forestry Department. It is from Army surplus. The department has not sent it back yet.

Jackson said one of his trucks will be in the shop for three to six months just for body repair.

The station was not the only loss. Four of the 25 firefighters lost their homes Monday. Donations are pouring in, and many in the community are planning to rebuild. That includes the fire station. Chief Jackson said he is already getting estimates.

He is not sure insurance will cover all his costs.

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Cleveland Fire Department spokesman Larry Gray confirms that at about 3 p.m. Monday, a shot was fired into Ladder 36 fire station on E. 131st Street in the Union/ Harvard neighborhood.

Gray says the bullet was not discovered until later Monday night. As a fire crew was preparing to go on a run, they found a crack in the windshield of one of the trucks and a bullet lying in front of the truck.

Cleveland police say officers responded to the firehouse at 3720 East 131st Street for a bullet into the structure/fire truck.

Further investigation revealed that police cruisers in the area had responded nearby at about the same time to 13400 Bartlett Avenue. No suspects located.

No one was hurt and police and the fire department continue to investigate.

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A 6-year-old in California who befriended a group of firefighters got a special ride to her final chemotherapy treatment earlier this month.

The Moraga-Orinda Fire District picked up Finley Brown, who was diagnosed with kidney cancer in June, and her family in a fire truck to drive them to Oakland's UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital on Dec. 21 -- a thrill of a lifetime for Finely and her little brother, Cooper, 4.

Finley met the firefighters this summer at a festival where the family lives in Moraga, just east of the Bay Area.

"We've always taught our kids that whenever they see a fireman or a police officer or a soldier, it's nice to approach them and thank them for keeping us safe," her mother A.J. Brown said.

So when Finley, who was with a babysitter and her little brother that day, saw a group of firefighters, she marched right up to them.

"Finley caught our eye initially because she didn't have any hair, and then because she started talking to us — this little girl had a ton of confidence," firefighter Lucas Lambert said. "She wasn't shy at all. She introduced both her little brother and babysitter to us and had no problems asking questions. And then she went on to tell us her story and started showing off her scars and telling us what she had been through in the past month or so."

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Eleven people were displaced after a fire heavily damaged a fourplex Tuesday morning in Vancouver’s Edgewood Park neighborhood. Firefighters arrived at the complex, 3408 E. Evergreen Blvd., at about 10:30 a.m. and reported heavy fire and smoke coming from the doors and windows of the two middle units, Vancouver Fire Department spokesman Mark Johnston.
- PUB DATE: 12/29/2015 12:01:55 PM - SOURCE: Vancouver Columbian

Eleven people were displaced after a fire heavily damaged a fourplex Tuesday morning in Vancouver’s Edgewood Park neighborhood. Firefighters arrived at the complex, 3408 E. Evergreen Blvd., at about 10:30 a.m. and reported heavy fire and smoke coming from the doors and windows of the two middle units, Vancouver Fire Department spokesman Mark Johnston.
- PUB DATE: 12/29/2015 12:01:55 PM - SOURCE: Vancouver Columbian