November 2009

Fire at National City retirement home

November 23, 2009

NATIONAL CITY — Firefighters are working to extinguish a fire at a retirement home on South Highland Avenue near East 25th Street tonight, officials said. According to a Heartland fire dispatcher, the call came in at approximately 6:40 p.m. and eight fire vehicles were sent to the blaze. Information regarding injuries or the amount of [...]

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Kern County Firefighters respond to massive house fire

November 22, 2009

On Saturday November 21, 2009 at approximately 2:51 a.m., a call was received by the Kern County Fire Department for a structure fire in the Pine Mountain area at 1927 Target Place. Approximately 23 personnel responded to the incident. Kern County Firefighters were assisted by firefighters from Los Angeles County and the Los Padres National [...]

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Air Force firefighters demonstrate skills at 2009 Scott Firefighter Combat Challenge in Las Vegas

November 22, 2009

Beneath the lights of the original Las Vegas strip, Air Force firefighters blazed through the finals of the individual competition Nov. 19 during the 2009 Scott Firefighter Combat Challenge here. Dave Chiodo, a firefighter from Travis Air Force Base, Calif., finished ranked number one in the world for the 55 and older category with a [...]

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Firefighters from Auburn, Loomis and Newcastle hone skills in extrication

November 22, 2009

An overturned school bus resting atop two cars could be a horrific scene for first-responders, but thankfully the scene Tuesday night was a training exercise. Firefighters from Auburn, Loomis and Newcastle took part in the extrication exercise to hone their emergency skills at Hall’s Towing in Auburn. “Hall’s put a school bus on its side [...]

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Oceanside Fire Chief defends Truck Company

November 22, 2009

A political dust devil is swirling in Oceanside over firefighters driving an emergency vehicle to a local event. It started when a fire crew drove their ladder truck to a youth soccer game at Mance Buchanon Park on Nov. 14. Some people there said the crew’s fire captain coached a girls soccer team playing at [...]

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Firefighters knock down fire at gas station in South San Jose

November 22, 2009

Firefighters extinguished a two-alarm structure fire at a gas station in south San Jose on Thursday night, a dispatcher with the San Jose Fire Department said. Units responded to fire reported in a garage outbuilding at a 76 gas station at Branham Lane and Snell Avenue at around 10 p.m., the dispatcher said. The blaze [...]

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Busy week for San Bernardino City Firefighters

November 19, 2009

11/18/09 – Structure Fire with Rescue When San Bernardino City Fire units arrived on scene, they found a smoke and flames coming from the rear of a single family structure that was quickly building in the family room of the house. A family member reported her husband was still inside stricken to a wheelchair and [...]

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Many are in agreement with recommendations in LA county’s Station Fire report

November 19, 2009

The day after the county in a report on the Station Fire called for a “vastly different approach” in the way the U.S. Forest Service fights fires, the agency announced it will reconsider its policies. Area politicians supported taking legislative action to enact the recommendations. Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Pasadena, lauded the report for bringing up [...]

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Firefighters extinguish Santa Rosa horse ranch fire

November 19, 2009

Firefighters finally extinguished a blaze Tuesday night that erupted nearly 24 hours earlier at a horse ranch west of Santa Rosa, reducing a mountain of hay bales into a pile of smoldering rubble. The 65 tons of hay originally sent flames towering into the sky, melted an aluminium pull barn to the ground, and struck [...]

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Two Homes Burn in SB City Neighborhood

November 16, 2009

Early this morning, firefighters from the San Bernardino City Fire Department responded to a report of a structure fire. Arriving units found flames coming from the rear of a house. Smoke could be seen covering the neighborhood homes as fire department units arrived. The home was vacant and secured with a “For Rent” sign in [...]

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