Mayor Karen Bass taps Illinois consulting firm to support Palisades fire recovery
Evanston, Ill.-based Hagerty Consulting will do 'full project management, coordinating all of the different private and ...
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How a Missouri firefighter’s frustration led to better technology to fight fires
Jason Cerrano got the idea for the SAM Control System about 15 years ago while working a house fire for the Pattonville Fire ...
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How fire departments use pre-positioning to get a jump on wildfires
When weather experts predict dangerous wind storms, there’s funding available for fire departments to pre-deploy extra strike teams and equipment to quickly jump on the fires that may be sparked ...
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Kansas Fire Marshal, local departments prepare for wildfire season with task force recommendations
Tanker 95 drops water on a fire in Barber County in 2022. The Kansas Fire Marshal's office is working with Marion County fire officials to create an avenue for volunteer fire departments to receive ...
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Crews from 10 fire departments battle blazes in Fairfield, Benton
Learn more. FAIRFIELD — Two fires that were reported an hour apart Tuesday in Fairfield and Benton prompted a broad response from area fire departments, according to officials. More than 20 ...
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Fire crews in Southern California quickly extinguish brush fires amid extreme fire weather
The extreme fire weather is raising the risk of new wildfires like the two major blazes that started two weeks ago and are still burning in the Los Angeles area. Gusts could peak at 70 mph (113 ...
The Center Square20d
Illinois legislator, firefighter reacts to CA wildfire response
(The Center Square) – An Illinois fire department says the systems needed to fight a fire as large as the ones in California don't exist. Government officials, like California Gov. Gavin Newsom and ...
New York Post22d
75 Los Angeles fire trucks wait for repairs as wildfires rage — while city spends $1.3B on the homeless
The essential firefighting vehicles were still sitting in the Los Angeles Fire Department’s Bureau Of Supply and Maintenance lot in an industrial area Wednesday, waiting to be repaired.
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3-alarm fire damages Shawnee, Kansas apartment building
A THREE ALARM FIRE HAS DAMAGED AN APARTMENT BUILDING IN SHAWNEE, KANSAS. AND THAT’S WHERE ... BETWEEN SHAWNEE AND OVERLAND PARK FIRE DEPARTMENTS. THEY’RE WORKING TOGETHER ON THIS, AND WE ...
Kansas City Star22d
4-year-old girl found safe after mom’s car stolen ‘in seconds’ outside IL home, cops say
An Illinois girl, Blessing Aoci, was found safe after her mother’s car was stolen while she was in the back seat, police say. Rock Island Police Department. A large-scale search is underway for ...
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L.A. Fire Department brass face questions about slow response to Palisades Fire
Los Angeles — Questions are mounting regarding why hundreds of Los Angeles Fire Department personnel were initially held back from racing to the scene of the Palisades Fire when it first broke ...
Hindustan Times22d
Megyn Kelly ridicules three ‘obese’ female workers over LA Fire Department's response; Who is Kristine Larson?
Megyn Kelly blasted the three female workers of the Los Angeles Fire Department as the massive flames continue to ravage Southern California. Megyn Kelly blasted the three female workers of the ...