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Redlands firefighter hurt in structure fire

May 11, 2009

REDLANDS – Several Redlands firefighters had to be treated for heat-related injuries after battling a fire in a single-story home Thursday.The Fire Department received the call at about 11:45 a.m., according to Redlands Battalion Chief Steve Young, of a fire burning in the attic of a home on Alta Vista Drive. The house was empty [...]

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Gap Fire battle is complicated by terrain, brush, wind

July 4, 2008

Thick columns of smoke rose off the sides of the Santa Ynez Mountains north of Santa Barbara on Thursday as more than 1,000 firefighters entered their second day of battle against the Gap fire. “This fire could easily spread,” said Bill White as he stood on a ridge high above Goleta and looked east and [...]

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Today’s firefighters do much more than battle blazes

July 1, 2008

During her first year working for the Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District, firefighter Michelle Arcediano didn’t get to fight a structure fire. None happened on her shifts. “Not even a teaser, not even a smoker,” Arcediano said. In the two busy years since she graduated from the district’s academy, she can count on one hand the [...]

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San Jose Rescuer denies deed was heroic

July 1, 2008

A San Jose apartment maintenance worker who saved a woman from a burning unit is shrugging off the heroic deed. Chris Murphy plucked Bonnie Johnson from a second-story bathroom window when a two-alarm fire broke out in her living room early Saturday. “I just did what anybody else would do,” said Murphy, 45, a maintenance [...]

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Governator Says “No” to Fireworks

June 26, 2008

Fireworks are synonymous with the Fourth of July. Twenty-five groups will be selling “safe and sane” fireworks in Merced over a nine-day period and for many of them it’s their major fundraiser of the year. Last year, there were 22 fireworks booths in the city of Merced, said Merced fire Division Chief Bryan Donnelly. Most [...]

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Fire Destroys Local North Hollywood Business

June 16, 2008

On Sunday, June 15, 2008 at 9:04 PM, 7 Companies of Los Angeles Firefighters, 1 LAFD Rescue Ambulance, 1 Arson Unit, 1 Hazardous Materials Team, 2 EMS Battalion Captains, 3 Battalion Chief Officer Command Teams, 1 Division Chief Officer Command Teams, all under the direction of Battalion Chief Peter Benesch, responded to a Structure Fire [...]

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Second fire on Mt. Tam deemed ‘coincidence’

June 16, 2008

A brush fire broke out on Mount Tamalpais on Sunday afternoon almost in the spot as a fire on Saturday, but officials say there is no hint of an arsonist at work. The blaze Sunday burned about an acre and a half of brush below West Ridgecrest Road, on the Laurel Dell hiking trail. It [...]

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California Wildfires – update 6/14/08

June 14, 2008

This year’s record-dry spring has had firefighters chasing blazes throughout the state. The Martin fire in Bonny Doon was one of three significant blazes burning Friday. The largest was the Humboldt fire in Butte County, which had burned 40 homes and 20,000 acres. It was only 15 percent contained and was heading toward the town [...]

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Firefighters Feel Confident Worst of Bonny Doon Blaze is Behind Them

June 14, 2008

Some were too devastated or overcome with relief to speak. For others, emotions fell like water from an air tanker. Two days after a wildfire scorched 600 acres and 10 buildings in Bonny Doon, many of the 1,500 evacuated residents got their first look Friday at what was left of their forested community in the [...]

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Fire destroys 40 homes in Paradise; thousands of people are evacuated

June 14, 2008

PARADISE – As a wildfire bore down on his home of 15 years, hopscotching between properties here, Larry Knifong decided to take his chances and stay – that is, until the flames raced up a ridge toward this ranch-style house. “It was just moving very, very fast, it was just picking and choosing what it [...]

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