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| The WFCA IGNITE Symposium - February 11-12, 2025
Author: Mark Niemeyer, WFCA President & Fire Chief, Boise Fire Department
WFCA is excited to announce its FIRST annual IGNITE Symposium. This two-day event will feature speakers and events that uphold our tradition of offering exceptional education and networking opportunities that Western is known for. IGNITE embodies the values we cherish: Inspire, Grow, Network, Innovate, Transform, and Educate. We are limiting registration to 250 attendees to maintain an intimate learning environment and establish a reliable annual event that emerging and future leaders can depend on for their professional development and growth. Registration opens today—don’t delay, or you might miss out! read more |
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| Sitka Fire Department rescues two hikers in back-to-back calls Sitka Fire Department carried out two back-to-back rescues over the weekend. Around 3 p.m. on Saturday, July 6, the department received a call from an injured hiker on Harbor Mountain. Assistant Fire Chief David Johnson said the woman fell, hurt her leg, and was having difficulty walking. Over 20 first responders hiked in to help her and carried her down the mountain in a litter. Around 8 p.m., shortly after the ambulance returned to the fire hall from the first rescue, the fire department received a call from a second hiker in the Indian River area who was experiencing a medical emergency. Around a dozen search and rescue volunteers and EMS personnel responded to the call, treated the hiker, and brought her back to the trailhead in a litter. Both hikers were transported to Mt. Edgecumbe Medical Center with minor injuries. KCAW-FM 104.7 SITKA PREVIOUS STATE NEWS |
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| VIDEO: Fire torches 45-foot vessel on San Francisco Bay; 2 boaters escape Two boaters and a dog managed to escape unharmed Monday afternoon when a fire destroyed the boat they were on in San Francisco Bay. The fire burned the 45-foot vessel off Westpoint Harbor in Redwood City at around 1 p.m. The San Francisco Fire Department said one of its rescue boats was at the scene extinguishing the fire. The department cited the U.S Coast Guard as saying the two occupants abandoned the boat, named Lucid Dream, once it caught fire and were rescued by a good Samaritan vessel. The owner of the boat, Vicki Topp of Big Sur, told KPIX that she, another person and a dog were rescued by the Coast Guard and Redwood City firefighters. Coast Guard Petty Officer Ryan Graves told KPIX the Bayliner sailing vessel was fully engulfed when a Coast Guard helicopter arrived and located the two boaters and the dog in the water. KPIX-TV CBS 5 SAN FRANCISCO New Jersey fire chief dies at 110; This was his touching final wish PHOTOS: Vincent Dransfield was so famously resilient that when he passed away at home in Passaic County, three months after celebrating his 110th birthday, it came as a surprise. "It was very unexpected," said his granddaughter, Erica Lista. Even among world's few hundred supercentenarians, the term for those 110 or older, Dransfield stood out as an anomaly. He lived alone at a house in Little Falls, his home for 79 years, remained on the roster of the fire company where he served as fire chief from 1958 to 1965 and continued to drive his Hyundai sedan on local errands, his granddaughter said. He died June 26 at home, three days after an upbeat final visit with Lista in which he perused photos of his great-grandson's high school graduation. She said she brought him some cream for his joints because knee pain was one of the few things that ever slowed him down. NJ.COM Threat Under the Floor: Unmarked abandoned wells pose deadly danger in South Carolina VIDEO: You could be living on top of a danger in South Carolina and not even realize it - something some Upstate families have learned the hard way. Abandoned water wells - there's a proper procedure for how they should be closed up, but officials say that isn't always happening. "They're all over and sometimes they're just covered up and kind of forgotten," said Oconee County Emergency Management Director Scott Krein. Experts believe there are more than 100,0000 water wells across the state. They don't know how many of them have been abandoned without being properly sealed. Krein's agency was called to a home on Park Avenue in Salem in November 2023. Dorothy Downey, 83, was helping her daughter pack up before a move. When they tried to move the dining room table, rotting floorboards gave way and Downey plunged into a dark, 50-foot hole. WHNS-TV FOX 21 GREENVILLE Related Video: Gaffney Fire Chief remembers well rescue Storm Beryl leaves millions of Texans without power as dangerous heat descends on the region VIDEO: Restoring power to millions of Texans slammed by the deadly and destructive storm Beryl could take days or even weeks, posing a dangerous scenario for residents who will not have air conditioning as sweltering heat settles over the state. Beryl slammed into southern Texas as a Category 1 hurricane Monday, knocking out power to more than 2.5 million homes and leaving at least 8 people dead in Texas and Louisiana. More than 2.3 million people throughout Texas were still without power Tuesday morning, according to poweroutage.us. The storm – now a tropical depression – unleashed flooding rains and winds that transformed roads into rushing rivers, ripped through power lines and tossed trees onto homes, roads and cars. As it hurtles toward the Midwest Tuesday, it threatens to trigger more flooding and tornadoes along its path. CNN WEATHER PREVIOUS NATIONAL NEWS |
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