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OMAHA, Neb. --
A carbon monoxide leak left Sarpy County 911 without a dispatch center for two hours on Thursday night.
A couple dispatchers and a visitor at the center got sick from the fumes, authorities said. Emergency calls had to be rerouted to Douglas County, delaying responders.
Papillion firefighters evacuated the dispatch center about 10 p.m. They found a leak in a water heater in the furnace room nearby.
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OMAHA, Neb. --
A carbon monoxide leak left Sarpy County 911 without a dispatch center for two hours on Thursday night.
A couple dispatchers and a visitor at the center got sick from the fumes, authorities said. Emergency calls had to be rerouted to Douglas County, delaying responders.
Papillion firefighters evacuated the dispatch center about 10 p.m. They found a leak in a water heater in the furnace room nearby.
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The Record, Stockton, Calif.
Aug. 27--STOCKTON -- San Joaquin County officials warned the city of Stockton on Thursday afternoon that its firefighters would be forbidden from working as paramedics after Wednesday if it had not reached an agreement with the county by then.
"You don't get to hang out a shingle and say 'I'm a paramedic and I'm going to work today,' " Emergency Medical Services Administrator Dan Burch said. "It's akin to having a driver's license: I might be able to drive a car perfectly fine, but the law says you have to have a license."
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BOSTON --
A fire that consumed an abandoned warehouse in Boston has led to the creation of a new inspection team, charged with identifying at-risk buildings in the city.
"We don't need buildings like this in our city," Boston Mayor Tom Menino said.
In front of the charred remnants of an abandoned Roxbury warehouse that was consumed by a 9-alarm fire last the weekend; Menino announced the formation of a new problem property team.
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The Graham Leader, Texas
Newcastle Fire Chief Calvin Daigle will keep his job -- at least for now.
After a heated, three-hour meeting of the Young County Rural Volunteer Fire Department Board of Directors on Monday, the board voted to issue a "final warning" to Daigle over a variety of allegations.
During the meeting, the board discussed four allegations:
The Newcastle Fire Department's bylaws were not in conjunction with the county fire department bylaws;
Daigle lied to the county board;
Feedname: TRIBUNEThe Fayetteville Observer, N.C.
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Aug. 26--Seven firefighters were treated for heat exhaustion after a roof caught fire this morning on a three-story barracks building under construction on Fort Bragg.
The fire started at about 10:15 a.m. while contractors were working in the building at Bastogne and Salerno drives, said Tom McCollum, a Fort Bragg spokesman.
The fire was under control within 90 minutes, said Battalion Commander Scott McGuire of the Fort Bragg Fire Department. mcgUire said
Web exclusive: 0Web exlusive Memberzone only: 0 Feedname: TRIBUNEJoining host Douglas L. Cline is Lt. Rick Mosher from the Merriam, KS, Fire Department to talk about truck company operations when no "truck" is available.
Listen as the two explore how to successfully conduct truck company operations, such as entry, ventilation and other tactics, without a true ladder truck. From thoughts about designing apparatus to meet your needs to the hard core tactics of truck company functions on the fire ground are covered in this month's show.
FOREST PARK, Ga.
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Firefighters are trying to extinguish a blaze at a Clorox plant in Forest Park that has sent plumes of smoke into the air near two interstates.
Police say the blaze began around 9:15 a.m. Thursday when a truck at the plant caught fire.
A Forest Park fire official told CBS Atlanta that there was some sort of explosion when Pine Sol caught fire.
There are safety precautions in place to prevent it from getting to the Clorox.
Feedname: IBSRSSEveryone reading this text belongs to an organization: In some case more than one organization. So that we will not diffuse our focus, let's all concentrate on the one type of organization where we have a common interest, the fire department.
As the member of a fire service organization, you will continually be subjected to the influences created by the three major elements of any organization. These are:
By DAVID B. CARUSO
Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK --
Thousands of ground zero responders are being given more time to decide whether to settle lawsuits over their exposure to potentially toxic dust from the ruins of the World Trade Center, lawyers in the case said Wednesday.
The lawyers said they have scrapped a deadline that gave rescue and response workers until Sept. 8 to join or reject a settlement worth as much as $713 million.
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Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK --
Thousands of ground zero responders are being given more time to decide whether to settle lawsuits over their exposure to potentially toxic dust from the ruins of the World Trade Center, lawyers in the case said Wednesday.
The lawyers said they have scrapped a deadline that gave rescue and response workers until Sept. 8 to join or reject a settlement worth as much as $713 million.
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The Valley Independent, Monessen, Pa.
Aug. 25--WEBSTER -- The Rostraver Township commissioners may have voted to decertify the Rostraver Volunteer Fire Department No. 1, but the Webster-based department isn't going away without a fight.
The department's officers told a crowd of approximately 50 residents at an open meeting Tuesday night that they are looking for an attorney and promised to take legal action in an effort to stay in business.
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SOUTHINGTON, Conn. --
A backhoe struck a Southington gas line late Wednesday morning, forcing the evacuation of several businesses on the Meriden Waterbury Turnpike, police said.
The leak was reported in the area of the Milldale Center Plaza before 11:30 a.m.
Officials said a backhoe that was digging in an effort to install a new light pole, struck the gas line.
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A longtime Arizona firefighter is taking the reins as the new Houston fire chief, Local 2 Investigates reported Tuesday.
The Houston Fire Department's top job is going to Terry Garrison, who spent most of his career as an assistant chief with the Phoenix Fire Department.
Garrison left that position to become fire chief in Oceanside, Calif., and then joined the Daisy Mountain, Ariz., fire department in March, moving into the interim chief's position earlier this month when that town's fire chief died.
Feedname: IBSRSSJane Musgrave
The Palm Beach Post, Fla.
Aug. 24--WEST PALM BEACH -- For years, firefighter Rick Curtis has accused the city of race discrimination.
Despite a master's in business administration, completion of top fire and emergency medical courses and 15 years of service, he has been repeatedly overlooked for promotions.
Last week, the Palm Beach County Office of Equal Opportunity confirmed Curtis' long-held beliefs. The city, its Equal Employment Board ruled, discriminated against the 44-year-old captain because he is African-American.
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The Marin Independent Journal, Novato, Calif.
Aug. 25--San Rafael firefighters donned hazardous material gear to clean up a pesticide spill in a nursing home garage Tuesday after receiving reports of a noxious odor there.
At about 3:45 p.m. firefighters responded to a call from Country Villa Healthcare Center at 81 Professional Center Parkway, San Rafael fire Chief Chris Gray said.
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Tribune-Review (Greensburg, PA)
A firefighter sustained a minor injury while battling a late-night fire Wednesday in Unity.
Marguerite Volunteer Fire Department Chief Scot Graham on Thursday said the firefighter fell at the scene of an abandoned garage fire on Marguerite Lake Road. He was treated at Excela Health Latrobe Hospital for an arm injury and released, Graham said. He declined to release the firefighter's name yesterday.
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The Salt Lake Tribune
To burn or bulldoze?
That is the question that Ogden officials must answer as they seek to rapidly raze 38 abandoned homes in Ogden's Riverfront redevelopment zone.
Ogden Fire Chief Mike Mathieu recently received the nod from the state Division of Air Quality to use the structures for live-fire training.
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The Orlando Sentinel, Fla.
Aug. 23--Central Flordians can expect another round of lightning and thunderstorms Monday after bolts of lightning Sunday evening caused three house fires in Orange County in one hour,
The Orange County Fire Rescue responded to the three fires at homes near to each other during a major thunderstorm from about 5:40 p.m. to 6:40 p.m. Nobody was seriously injured.
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Jacksonville Journal-Courier, Ill.
Aug. 23--Fire Monday destroyed a landmark downtown Jacksonville lumberyard.
When firefighters were called shortly after 12:30 a.m., flames from LaCrosse Lumber Co. "were shooting over a hundred feet in the air," Fire Chief Rick Kluge said. "There was a big ball."
A firefighter who lives on Westgate Avenue could see it from his house.
"The whole east side of the building and the front and office area were fully involved and flames were impinging on the homes across the street on Sandy" Street, Kluge said.
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