Firefighters News
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Kansas City -
A Kansas City woman willing to risk life, limb and the possibility of arrest to rescue her World Series tickets from her burning home, ended up crossing paths with baseball legend George Brett upon conclusion of the ordeal.
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Weed -
A 24-year-old Northern California man was arrested and charged Saturday with starting the Boles fire that burned through the tiny lumber town of Weed, destroying more than 150 homes.
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Pollock Pines -
Firefighters in California appeared to be winning the race this week to contain the huge King fire consuming forest and threatening thousands of homes in the Sierra foothills, but shifting winds could imperil recent gains.
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CalFire and USFS crews have made good progress on containing the King wildfire in Northern California last night, even though the fire grew 2,000 acres, from 87,5 92 acres to 89,574 acres. Containment has now reached 37 percent as of Tuesday.
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Wildfires put communities in danger and interrupts daily activities. A single fire can destroy homes leaving many homeless. And owners sometimes will die in a tragic and futile effort to save their homes.
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Crimea's firefighters proudly switched allegiance on Tuesday, becoming the disputed peninsula's first department under Russia's full control after a hastily arranged ceremony reminiscent of the Soviet era."Lutsevich!
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The Scots toss the caber, and apparently Alpine farmers have a traditional stone toss event, and now some firemen in the canton of Aargau have come up with their own version. The first-ever national "toss the fire hydrant event."
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Groveland -
Firefighters continue to battle the flames in California's Sierra mountains, but the fire continues to grow. Still more than 5,500 structures threatened.
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Andraitx -
700 people have been evacuated from the town of Estellencs in the west of Mallorca as a fierce forest fire rages out of control. 300 firefighters from all over the island are fighting the blaze.
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Las Vegas -
The wildfire raging west of the Las Vegas Valley was started by a lightning strike on July 1 and since then it has consumed more than 25,000 acres. The costs of fighting it are nearing $6 million and counting.
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Prescott -
Nineteen firefighters lost their lives while fighting a wildfire in Arizona, the hightest amount of firefighters to lose their life in the line of duty since the 343 firefighters died on 9/11.
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Prescott -
The Yarnell Hill fire in Arizona has claimed the lives of firefighters. The official pronouncement came just before 8:00 p.m. PST tonight.
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A baby boy just a few days old, dumped in a toilet, was rescued by firefighters who took him to hospital still stuck inside the connecting sewage pipe.
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Detroit -
In the 1950s Detroit was thriving. Times have changed. The population is down to 750,000 from 1.8 million with a third of the people unemployed. For the Detroit Fire Department it's a powder keg that ignites every night of the year.
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At least five firefighters have been taken hostage in northwest Georgia, with the hostage taker barricading himself alongside the firefighters.
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Toronto -
A young party-goer who decided to act out a alcohol-infused dare had to rely on the Toronto Fire department to free him after being trapped inside a safe.
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As heartbreaking evictions continue in Spain due to the financial crisis, firefighters have now joined the protest against removing people from their homes by refusing to assist the bailiffs.
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Fuengirola -
It seems that Tuesday is turning into a day for protest by local police and firefighters in Fuengirola, as for the second week in a row, whistles and noise filled the town centre.
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In America, taking any kind of public office meant taking an oath where you put your hand on a Bible. Atlantic City firefighters had to do a bit of a twist on the tradition by using an iPad Bible app instead.
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Fuengirola -
The local police and firefighters in Fuengirola have had enough of all the cuts to their salaries and benefits. They protested, with much noise, in front of the Town Hall on Tuesday.
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Webster -
William Spengler, the shooter in the Christmas Eve neighborhood blaze in Webster, NY, and the deaths of two people, left a note. The note said he wanted to do what he liked best: killing people.
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Newtown -
Daniel Barden, a student at Sandy Hook Elementary School, idolized his father's cousins who are firefighters with the Fire Department of New York (FDNY).
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Newtown -
Two days after Anonymous revealed Westboro Baptist Church's (WBC) plan to protest the funerals of the Sandy Hook school shooting victims, members of the law enforcement and firefighting community decided to step in.
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Harderwijk -
The video of a dog in the Netherlands who decided to become a volunteer fireman has gone viral, receiving nearly 1.1 million views in the last 10 days.
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He probably just wanted to peep through the hole, but he got more than he bargained for and rescuers were called to release him.
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Temuco -
One of the latest aww-worthy photos to go viral online focus on a German Shepherd reportedly saving her puppies from a house fire in Chile. The photos show Amanda gripping her pups in her jaws and placing them on a fire truck.
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Firefighters and soldiers battling fires raging for a second day in Greece are hindered by gale-force winds. Greek authorities have asked for help from Italy, France and Croatia, as more firefighting planes are needed.
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Halifax -
Halifax Harbour may be surrounded by a plentitude of water, but it is on fire. Local firefighters are doing nothing to stop it.
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Temuco -
Six firefighters were killed and two were seriously burned while fighting a forest fire in the Araucania region in Chile; another worker is still missing. Authorities believe arson is involved.
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Los Angeles -
A fire started in a three-story building located inside the Universal Studios Hollywood backlot. There have been no reports of any injuries.
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Firefighters from the FDNY and other departments attend the funeral of Daniel Barden. Jeff Kolb/Twitter
Local police & firefighters protest in front of the Town Hall in Fuengirola on 19 February 2013.
Firefighters from the FDNY and other departments stand at attention during the funeral procession for Daniel Barden. Facebook/Connecticut Post
Firefighters hooking up a pump truck to a nearby fire hydrant to continue to battle the flames.
Local police & firefighters protest in front of the Town Hall in Fuengirola on 19 February 2013.
This Department of Forestry firefighter isn't running from the flames. He is hurrying to see how steep the embankment is near a bridge. These firefighters bulldoze paths deep into the wildfire to allow the firemen to get their trucks and other equipment in.
Protesting firefighters in Brussels, Belgium spray police officers with foam. YouTube`
A dog helps firefighters remove a damaged tree. Screen Capture
Firefighters race to save a home where the edge of a wildfire is less than 50 feet from the home.
Area firefighters visit a memorial to the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims outside the school's entrance before the funeral procession for 7-year-old Daniel Gerard Barden Facebook/Connecticut Post
Firefighters honouring those who perished.
After fighting a 5-acre brush fire, two firefighters initiate a rookie by hosing him down. Such activities help relieve the stress that fighting such fires that places them in danger of injury or death.
Barely visible through the smoke, a sheriff's helicopter, outfitted with a 300 gallon tank, dumps its load on top of the fire where fireman can't get to.
President Obama places a wreath at the site of the 9/11 Memorial at Ground Zero. Pete Souza / The White House
A wildfire closes in on the backyard of a home. All the fire needs is a breeze in the direction of the house to send flames and hot embers to set the house on fire.
North Port Fire Department Lieutenant Romeo Carrano with the glow of a fire burning deeper in the woods, lays down some water & chemicals at the edge of a road to keep the fire that's heading his way from jumping over the road.
"Don't play with security. No more cuts! Officials are not the problem." Local police & firefighters protest in front of the Town Hall in Fuengirola on 19 February 2013.
Police officers and firefighters attend the funeral of a Sandy Hook school shooting victim. 57UN/Twitter
Protesting firefighters spray police officers with water and foam in Brussels, Belgium. YouTube
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