March 2011

Red Cross Heroes: Fresno Fire Department

March 31, 2011

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USFA Announces the 2011 Arson Awareness Week Theme

March 31, 2011

Emmitsburg, MD – The United States Fire Administration (USFA) is pleased to partner with the International Association of Arson Investigators; Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; USAonWatch; National Association of State Fire Marshals; National Volunteer Fire Council; and the Insurance Committee for Arson Control to announce the theme for the 2011 Arson Awareness Week: [...]

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Firefighters put out small blaze on Disney site

March 31, 2011

Firefighters extinguished Wednesday a small fire on a construction site behind Disney California Adventure. Construction workers were evacuated from the site while firefighters put out a plastic tarp that ignited over steel framework about five stories high, said Maria Sabol, an Anaheim Fire Department spokeswoman. Firefighters used a ladder truck to reach the blaze. Welders [...]

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Fire Department battles blazes in Sunset, SoMa

March 31, 2011

Two one-alarm fires broke out in the South of Market and Sunset districts early Wednesday morning. The first blaze was reported around 3:30 a.m. to a building in the 1300 block of Lawton Street at 19th Avenue. The fire was under control in about an hour.

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LA County firefighters douse car fire in City Terrace

March 31, 2011

CITY TERRACE – Los Angeles County Fire Department firefighters needed about 10 minutes to extinguish a car fire in City Terrace, authorities said today. A caller reported a car was on fire about 11:40 p.m. Tuesday in the 1300 block of North Cordon Drive, near Milburn Drive, and was knocked down about 11:50 p.m., dispatch [...]

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Firefighters contain Alameda boat fire

March 31, 2011

ALAMEDA — Firefighters have contained a fire aboard a boat docked in the Oakland-Alameda estuary that sent a plume of black smoke billowing into the sky on Wednesday afternoon. No one was aboard the boat at the Fortman Marina on Buena Vista Avenue, where the fire broke out about lunch time. The live-aboard boat measures [...]

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Firefighters rescued man before flames engulfed bathroom

March 30, 2011

A blind dog may have tipped over a space heater, causing Monday evening’s house fire on Sonoma Street that injured two people, including a resident who was rescued in the nick of time, Napa Fire Marshal Darren Drake said Tuesday. The man was hauled through a narrow, ground-floor bathroom window less than a minute before [...]

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Local Mobile Home Fire Under Investigation

March 30, 2011

The cause of a Palm Desert mobile home fire is under investigation Tuesday, according to the Riverside County Fire Department. Monday evening at approximately 5:30, officials reported seeing smoke and fire through the roof of a double wide mobile home located in the Sun Crest Mobile Home Park on Country Club Dr. Twenty-four firefighters battled [...]

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Window washer electrocuted in Huntington Beach

March 30, 2011

A man washing windows at a Huntington Beach medical office building was electrocuted Tuesday morning when he accidentally touched overhead power lines with a metal pole, fire officials said. The man was using a brush on a long extension pole with a water hose attachment to clean the windows of a three-story building on the [...]

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Woman steers flaming Volkswagen bus to shoulder near UC Santa Cruz

March 30, 2011

SANTA CRUZ – A 1970s Volkswagen bus caught fire near UC Santa Cruz and the driver managed to steer it to the corner and escape unharmed, Santa Cruz firefighters reported. About 1:20 p.m. Tuesday, a woman in her 20s was driving an orange-and-white VW on High Street near Village Circle when the engine caught fire, [...]

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