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1 hr ago | HomeTownLife.com

Fire department to benefit from new video technology

Training and group meetings just got a lot easier for the Novi Fire Department thanks to the Assistance to Firefighters Grant program that helped the department install video conferencing equipment at all four fire stations.

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Related Topix: Novi, MI

5 hrs ago | Post and Courier

Officials: Wildfire near Myrtle Beach now contained

MYRTLE BEACH a ' Fire officials near the South Carolina coast say a wildfire has been contained after it burned several acres not far from the area where a fire burned 30 square miles earlier this year.

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Related Topix: Myrtle Beach, SC, Natural Disasters, Myrtle Beach Metro, Wildfire, Horry County, SC

10 hrs ago | Bellingham Herald

$11M fire damage to partly finished Renton apartments

Fire officials estimate some $11 million in damage from a five-alarm blaze that gutted a luxury apartment complex under construction in the Highlands neighborhood of Renton, Wash.

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Related Topix: Renton, WA, Seattle Metro

14 hrs ago | Guardian Unlimited

New Swiss firefighting tool: TV remote control - AP

A A A' It must rank among the easiest fires ever to put out. Zurich authorities say police and firefighters were called to the house of an elderly woman early Thursday after she reported her television set was burning.

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19 hrs ago | The Modesto Bee

N. Las Vegas fire capt. indicted on arson charges

A North Las Vegas fire captain has been indicted on arson charges after his vehicle was found on fire a day after he reported it stolen from a gas station, the Nevada attorney general said Wednesday.

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Related Topix: Las Vegas, NV Metro

Wed Jul 01, 2009

KFSN

NB I-5 Closed North of Castaic Due to Brush Fires

A brush fire has erupted off Interstate 5 near Castaic in Angeles National Forest.

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Related Topix: Castaic, CA, Natural Disasters, Wildfire, Los Angeles County, CA

The Seattle Times

Large fire follows explosions in Renton Highlands

A five-story apartment building that was under construction in the Renton Highlands went up in flames in spectacular fashion Tuesday - with the plume of smoke visible as far away as Tacoma.

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Related Topix: Seattle Metro

6 ABC

House used for fire training catches fire

A vacant house in flames must have looked familiar to northwestern Ohio firefighters.

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Related Topix: Offbeat

Times-Picayune

150 scrap vehicles go up in smoke

An early morning two-alarm fire at an eastern New Orleans wrecking yard burned some 150 vehicles, and kept New Orleans firefighters busy extinguishing hot spots hours after the fire was placed under control, a New Orleans Fire Department spokesman said.

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Related Topix: New Orleans, LA, New Orleans Metro

FireFightingNews.com

Dogs Help Search Collapsed Atlanta Parking Deck

Rescuers used dogs, listening devices and thermal cameras to scour a collapsed parking deck near downtown Atlanta Tuesday to make sure no victims were in the debris while crews used cranes to lift out crushed cars.

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Related Topix: Atlanta, GA, OSHA

Tue Jun 30, 2009

Providence Journal

S. Kingstown firefighter dies after ladder-truck accident

A South Kingstown firefighter who was critically injured Monday while working on a ladder truck at the Kingston Fire District has died, a fire department spokesman announced.

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Related Topix: Kingston, RI, Charlestown, RI, Barrington, RI, Providence Metro

KREM.com

Wildfire threatening homes near Ephrata

A wildfire is threatening two homes near Ephrata, WA. KREM.com Grant County Emergency Management officials told KREM 2 News that the wind-driven fire has burned 75-100 acres so far in mostly sage brush, chapparal and grass.

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Related Topix: Ephrata, WA, Natural Disasters, Wildfire, Grant County, WA, Spokane, WA

The Greenville News

Propane pops save folks from fire

The popping sounds that woke six folks in their home around 2:40 a.m. today probably saved their lives, according to Greer Fire Marshal Scott Keeley.

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Related Topix: Greer, SC

1010Wins

Firefighters Treated after Blaze at Upstate College Lab

More than a dozen firefighters are recovering after they were exposed to smoke and chemicals after a fire broke out inside a laboratory at an Albany-area college.

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Related Topix: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Deseret News

Logan fire captain suffers burns

A firefighter suffered burns to the face while responding to a vehicle fire Sunday at a laundromat near Utah State University.

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Related Topix: Utah State University

The Detroit News

Firefighters battle Packard plant blaze

Detroit -- A section of the iconic Packard plant complex was burning Sunday night as two ladder companies fought to control the blaze.

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Related Topix: Detroit, MI, Detroit Metro

Mon Jun 29, 2009

WGNO

Train carrying gas derails and explodes in Tuscan town, killing at least 6, injuring 30

A freight train derailed in the middle of a small Italian town and two cars filled with liquefied natural gas exploded, setting off an inferno that killed at least six people and injured more than 30, officials said Tuesday.

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Related Topix: Train Disaster, Italy, World News, Explosion,

KTLA-TV Los Angeles

Seven People Injured in Fire at L.A. Apartment Building

Seven people were injured in a fire at a four-unit apartment building near downtown Los Angeles Monday.

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Related Topix: Los Angeles, CA

Washington Post

Supreme Court Rules for White Firefighters Over Promotions

This Sept. 2007 photo released by the PenWell Corporation publication "Fire Engineering" shows New Haven, Conn., firefighter Frank Ricci during testing of fire fighting equipment.

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Related Topix: US News, New Haven, CT, New Haven Metro

Abc11tv.com

Man allegedly kills, wife and son before killing himself

A college student who was wounded in a shooting that killed his mother and brother told police his father lured him to the family's house in southwest Virginia.

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Related Topix: Axton, VA

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