August 2008

San Bernardino County Firefighters Rescue 7 People

August 31, 2008

Fire crews stretched a ladder across a swollen creek bed to rescue seven picnickers who were stranded Saturday by a flash flood in the San Bernardino National Forest, a fire official said. Authorities received a 911 call about 3:30 p.m. notifying them that a group was stranded by the thunderstorm at a picnic area at [...]

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San Diego Firefighters Treat 16; Walkway Collapses

August 31, 2008

A block-long covered walkway next to a construction scaffold collapsed on Thursday, trapping and injuring 16 pedestrians, three critically. About 25 people were on the walkway when its wooden walls and roof fell in, authorities said. Some scaffolding along the 3-story building also fell. “The walls started moving, then the bang. Everything started coming down. [...]

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Tire blaze forces 80 from their Ohio homes

August 31, 2008

A fire at a tire-recycling company Saturday evening forced the evacuation of several dozen neighbors and created a plume of thick, black smoke visible from downtown Akron, south to Fawcett Stadium in Canton and west to Norton. Though no one was hurt, crews from eight fire departments worked to contain the blaze at Puritan Systems [...]

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FEMA Activates LAFD CA Task Force 1 for “Gustav”

August 30, 2008

Pursuant of a formal request from the Federal Emergency Management Agency through the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services, the Los Angeles Fire Department is deploying 28 members of the LAFD staffed FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Team, California Task Force 1 (CA-TF 1) to Houston, Texas as part of FEMA’s mobilization to the Gulf [...]

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2 Structures Keep North Sacramento Firefighters Busy

August 30, 2008

Two homes were destroyed Friday during a three-alarm blaze in north Sacramento. The fire was reported shortly after 5 p.m. in the area of Renondo Avenue and Edgewater Road. Fire crews faced a tough job battling the flames as temperatures hovered just over 100 degrees. One firefighter suffered a minor injury. Another person suffered from [...]

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Firefighters Respond to Airplane Crash in Las Vegas Neighborhood

August 29, 2008

A Call was received from North Las Vegas airport that an aircraft was in trouble and trying to reach the airport. At least two people called and reported that they could see fire from the aircraft. The aircraft crashed in between two houses at 2832 and 2828 N. Jones Blvd and caught fire. Ten people [...]

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Firefighters Really do Save Cats!

August 29, 2008

SAN RAMON — If cats do have nine lives, then Balls, a long-haired black feline, owes at least one of those to the city’s fire and police departments. Three days after being pulled from a house fire, resuscitated by firefighters and rushed to a veterinary clinic in a police car, Balls was released from the [...]

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Cal Fire to take over Atwater fire services

August 29, 2008

A divided city council approved a $1.5 million contract with the state to take control of its municipal fire department. The city projects that hiring Cal Fire to run the department will save about $1.4 million over the next five years — a point of close contention among the council members. Mayor Joan Faul, Mayor [...]

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Three Buffalo firefighters injured battling structure fire

August 29, 2008

Three Buffalo firefighters were injured this morning battling a fire that started in a vacant East Side home, the latest in a long list of firefighters hurt while responding to fires in vacant or abandoned city buildings. The blaze started just after 5 a.m. in an unoccupied, two and one half-story frame house at 21 [...]

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Pittsburgh’s first female Deputy Chief demoted

August 29, 2008

Pittsburgh’s first female deputy fire chief has been replaced by a man who four years ago was passed over for the job. Colleen Walz, 46, of Brookline called the move “desperately wrong.” She said Fire Chief Darryl Jones brought her into his office Downtown on Monday afternoon and told her that she had been reassigned. [...]

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