September 2011

Residents escape dawn fire in Chico apartment

September 21, 2011

No one was injured, but a 25-year-old mother and her 5-year-old son lost all of their possessions in a dawn apartment fire in Chico today. Jessika Boring, 25, who lives on the second floor in the Cinnamon Village Apartments, 1650 Forest Ave., said she had three out-of-area guests spending the night. They had all gone [...]

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Off-duty firefighter tried to save victim in tree accident

September 20, 2011

Off-duty Newport Beach Battalion Chief Todd Knipp was waiting for his son in an orthodontist’s office when someone burst in and said a tree fell on a car across the corner.

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Fire burns home, injures firefighter

September 19, 2011

COHASSET — A mobile home in a field on Cohasset Road burned down Saturday evening, under unknown circumstances. The fire spawned several more spot fires that occupied firefighters of Cal Fire – Butte County until after 3 a.m.

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Firefighters save South Lake home

September 19, 2011

The Kern County Fire Department extinguished a garage fire and saved a nearby structure in an area near Lake Isabella Sunday afternoon.

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Authorities look for answers after tree crushes motorist

September 18, 2011

Authorities were still looking for answers on Friday, one day after a 10-ton tree toppled onto a car waiting at a stoplight, crushing the driver. Haeyoon Miller, 29, was killed when the trunk of the 50-foot eucalyptus tree slammed into the roof of her Hyundai Accent as she waited at 17th Street and Irvine Avenue [...]

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Firefighters save instruments from classroom blaze

September 18, 2011

Firefighters doused a blaze in an external music classroom at Garrison Elementary School on Saturday morning, saving thousands in stringed instruments stored inside, authorities said.

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Firefighters gaining on Santa Clarita blaze

September 18, 2011

A fire that had burned through about 600 acres in an uninhabited area near Mint Canyon in Santa Clarita was expected to be contained by Sunday evening, fire officials said.

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Female firefighters save a life, show they belong

September 17, 2011

San Francisco — When Chase Wilson and her three-person fire crew turned on Mission Street at 5 a.m. July 4, smoke rolled toward them like fog. When someone pulls an alarm on a street box the calls are often trash fires. Or false alarms.

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2 firefighters killed in SD coal bin explosion

September 17, 2011

Two volunteer firefighters were killed and another was injured in an explosion in South Dakota on Thursday. The fallen firefighters — who were cousins — had gone on top of a structure to attack a coal bin fire below when an explosion destroyed the top and south wall of the building in the small community [...]

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Boy playing with lighter starts Modesto house fire

September 17, 2011

MODESTO — An 11-year-old boy playing with a lighter started a fire Friday afternoon that extensively damaged his family’s south Modesto home, the Modesto Fire Department reported.

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