A toddler is in critical condition after an early-morning house fire in Brooklyn. The flames broke out around 1 a.m. on Avenue P in Marine Park, and it was placed under control about 45 minutes later. Jean Pierre lost his home, but his family is still intact. The fire destroyed everything inside his home and almost killed his 2-year-old son Chase.
- PUB DATE: 8/25/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WABC-TV 7online.com

A Port of Portland firefighter indicted in the alleged sexual assault of a female colleague during a 2014 work trip to Texas was fired last week after an internal investigation found he violated the Port's work policy and ordinances. Jason McCann, who had worked for the Port for eight years, was fired Aug.
- PUB DATE: 8/25/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Portland Oregonian

A volunteer firefighter died Saturday an hour after responding to a commercial structure fire. U.S. Fire Administration reported that firefighter Lawrence Sesso, 40, with the Sayville (N.Y.) Fire Department, suffered a cardiac arrested on his way home from responding to a fire and participating in a fire department parade.
- PUB DATE: 8/25/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: firerescue1

The North Star fire burning on the Colville Indian Reservation has grown to 147,000 acres and is only three percent contained. Fire crews reopened Highway 155 on Monday between Nespelem and Omak but delays can still be expected because of the firefighting activity. They have been able to keep homes from burning in the area and they are making sure it does not come any closer to town.
- PUB DATE: 8/24/2015 8:30:51 PM - SOURCE: KREM-TV CBS 2