An 86-year-old man died trying to fight a brush fire near his home in Marysville Thursday afternoon. Marysville firefighters received a report of a fire burning brush down a steep embankment near the 4100 block of Meridian Avenue. They then received a report that a person had fallen down the embankment, Marysville fire officials said.
- PUB DATE: 6/26/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KOMO News

As of 6:15 pm Wednesday night the video of Jesse Lopez crashing into a Los Angeles County Fire Truck had scored 137,573 views. But, while others were watching his head-on motorcycle wreck in the Angeles National Forest he was watching it on his laptop. The collision happened back in April. Lopez and a friend were on his first mountain ride since he started riding a motorcycle seven months earlier.
- PUB DATE: 6/25/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KTVU-TV Oakland, San Francisco, Bay Area

While Illinois Firefighter/Paramedic Justin McWilliams knows he’s thrust into "toxic soup" when he does his job, he’s also anxious to learn how to protect himself. That’s why he and 11 other firefighters rolled up their sleeves, gave blood and wore a number of monitors while they participated in a number of scenarios at the Illinois Fire Service Institute (IFSI).
- PUB DATE: 6/25/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: firehouse