| Colorado Wildfire Raises Concern for Community Safety
3/22/2012 12:45:42 PM The recent fire in the small town of Eckley, in the state’s northeastern plains, highlights the threats to homes and property from wildfire in communities across Colorado. The lack of snowfall, coupled with higher-than-normal temperatures and high winds, lead experts to predict that Colorado’s wildfire season will be active and potentially dangerous.
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| USFA Announces the 2012 Arson Awareness Week Theme
3/22/2012 12:34:05 PM The U.S. Fire Administration (USFA) is pleased to partner with the International Association of Arson Investigators; Safe Kids USA; USAonWatch; the National Volunteer Fire Council; and the National Association of State Fire Marshals to announce the theme for the 2012 Arson Awareness Week: Prevent Youth Firesetting. |
| Memphis Family of 8 Displaced After Blaze Caused by Electrical Shortage
3/22/2012 12:33:58 PM The Memphis Fire Department responded to a report of a house fire at 3324 Lamphier Avenue, Wednesday, March 21, 2012 at 1:23 p.m. Upon arrival on the scene at 1:27 p.m., firefighters reported smoke visible from the one story woodframe residential structure.
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| San Bernardino County Woman Burned After Re-Entering Home on Fire
3/22/2012 11:33:44 AM While outside the fire station, firefighters observed smoke coming from a residence about 200 yards from the station on Macy Street in San Bernardino County, California. They immediately responded and found a residence fully engulfed in flames and an elderly female sitting in a chair outside the residence being attended to by two adults. |
| Locution Systems To Provide Its Automated Dispatching & Fire Station Alerting System to Ohio Fire Department
3/22/2012 11:27:44 AM Locution Systems, Inc., a provider of the CADVoice® fire station alerting and automated dispatching system for fire and EMS departments, announced that it has been commissioned to provide its CADVoice® automated dispatching and fire station alerting system to the Loveland-Symmes Fire Department.
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 | Public Safety Personnel Potentially Exposed to Radiation at Crash Scene
3/22/2012 10:08:48 AM On Monday, March 19, 2012, an incident was dispatched at around 12:15 pm reporting a motor vehicle crash with occupants trapped at the intersection of Hillmeade Road and Woodmore Boulevard in Glenn Dale, Maryland. Public Safety Officials arrived quickly and found a 2-vehicle broadside crash involving a pick-up truck and overturned work van. |
| Illinois Firefighters Say No to Romney
3/20/2012 11:58:52 AM The IAFF and the Associated Fire Fighters of Illinois (AFFI) are wading into the Republican nomination process with a new broadcast ad highlighting Mitt Romney’s opposition to critical public safety programs, including Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response (SAFER) and Assistance to Firefighters (FIRE Act) grants.
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| LAFD Provides Additional Information Regarding 911 Response Times
3/20/2012 11:44:10 AM The Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) is currently being asked: have response times gotten worse since the budget was cut a few years ago?
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| Investigators Trying to Determine Cause of Fire at Living Savior Lutheran Church
3/20/2012 11:20:47 AM Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue and the Tualatin Police Department are working to determine the cause of a 3 alarm fire at the Living Savior Lutheran Church in Tualatin, Oregon. No one was injured during the fire, but the church's sanctuary, meeting rooms and an attached preschool suffered major damage.
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| Victim Transported by Ambulace After Santa Cruz Blaze
3/20/2012 11:11:30 AM Santa Cruz Fire Department responded to a structure fire with a victim unable to get out of their residence on March 17th, 2012. Fire crews arrived to find neighbors moving a victim across the street and flames to the rear of the main house on the property. |
