May 2010

Firefighters battle brush fire in Mira Mesa

May 31, 2010

MIRA MESA — Firefighters are battling a two and a half acre blaze in a Mira Mesa canyon. The fire was reported just before 11 a.m. on Backer Road near Heffner Lane, a dispatcher with the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department said. The canyon is north of Miramar Road and west of Interstate 15. Several crews [...]

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Firefighters Battle Fire At Vineyard Near Lodi

May 31, 2010

Plumes of smoke filled the air near Lodi as firefighters battled a blaze in a vineyard Saturday. Crews raced to West Acampo road near Lodi. At this point, crews aren’t sure how the fire started in the abandoned vineyard. The good news is that despite the plumes of smoke, the fire was knocked down quickly. [...]

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Car Crashes into Fire Truck

May 31, 2010

A car crashed into a parked fire truck early Sunday on the 105 Freeway in Hawthorne, injuring one person, officials said. The car was heading west on the freeway about 4 a.m. when it hit the side of the truck near the Crenshaw Boulevard exit, Los Angeles County Fire Department dispatcher Bernard Peters said. The [...]

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Cat dies, home damaged in fire

May 30, 2010

A master bedroom burned in a Petaluma house fire Friday afternoon, causing an estimated $25,000 in damage to the house and the bedroom’s contents, authorities said. No one was home at the time, but a cat locked in the bedroom died from smoke inhalation. The fire at 1979 Rainier Circle, on the city’s east flank, [...]

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Blaze burns about 8 acres near Graciosa Road

May 30, 2010

A grass fire near Graciosa Road and Highways 135 and 1 this afternoon has burned about 8 acres, county fire Capt. David Sadecki said about 2:30 p.m. today. The hard-to-access blaze was reported about 1:20 p.m. Santa Barbara County, Vandenberg Air Force Base and Santa Maria city firefighters were involved in the battle.

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Firefighters contain East County brush fire

May 30, 2010

EAST COUNTY — A fire that burned 30 acres north of Lakeside off state Route 67 Saturday was ignited when pieces of a malfunctioning catalytic converter came off a vehicle, Cal Fire said. Five separate small fires broke out along a stretch of state Route 67 near Slaughterhouse Canyon Road, and they quickly burned together [...]

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LA firefighters: City budget cuts could hurt emergency services

May 29, 2010

Firefighters used a press conference held at the Avenue 19 maintenance facility downtown as a warning that any cuts would hurt the city’s day-to-day emergency preparedness. “If you were a general and you were going to send your soldiers into battle, but you were going to cut down on the number of people that support [...]

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Man dies in D St. apartment blaze after firefighters force their way in

May 29, 2010

A man in his late 30s died Friday evening in an apartment fire, fire officials said. The man has not been identified, pending notification of next of kin. Sacramento fire officials said the fire broke out about 7:15 p.m. in an apartment in the 3000 block of D Street in east Sacramento. When firefighters arrived, [...]

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Chief says Victorville fire 100 percent contained

May 29, 2010

VICTORVILLE, Calif.—Firefighters say a brush fire north of Victorville has been fully contained, three days after it was apparently sparked by a homeless person burning insulation off of copper wiring. San Bernardino County Fire Department Division Chief Sid Hultquist says the fire burned 91 acres of thick vegetation in the Mojave River. It was 100 [...]

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May 28, 2010

Firefighter Frank Reed lost his lengthy battle with cancer on May 26, 2010. He was 46 years old. Frank had a 26 year career in the Fire Service which was shared with Odessa, TX and the Visalia Fire Department.

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