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Until Monday morning on Jan. 2, Whittier City Manager Jim Hunt had not declared a snow emergency for three years. Hunt explained that the Department of Transportation and Public Facilities, the Alaska Railroad, and the City of Whittier share a symbiotic responsibility to keep Whittier connected to the Seward Highway and Alaska Marine Highway System. Whittier sits on Prince William Sound 60 miles south of Anchorage, and is accessible to vehicles only through the 2.7 mile-long Anton Anderson Memorial Tunnel. As a result of the city's unique location, keeping the railway and roads clear is critical for the day-to-day operations of the city and daily life for residents. Whittier receives frequent rainfall, high winds, and nearly 50 inches of snowfall on average in the month of January, according to the Western Regional Climate Center data from nearly 70 years of recordkeeping through 2011.  
KTUU-TV NBC 2 ANCHORAGE  
Portland fire and rescue crews are responding to a three-alarm fire in the 900 block of SW Clay Street. Crews were dispatched shortly before 5:30 p.m. Tuesday to the fire at the former Portland Korean Church. The building was completed in 1905, initially as the First German Evangelical Church. It remained in use by the same congregation for 73 years. "I walked right past it on the way to the DMV," said spectator Gena Hoyt. "We saw huge flames above the church. Like, really huge flames," Joe Silvey says. "Insane. I've never seen anything like it." Fire crews were unable to get inside quickly as the building has been marked as unsafe, with holes in the floors from previous fires. Because of concerns of potential collapse, streets are closed nearby.  
KPTV FOX 12 PORTLAND  
PHOTOS: When the Evanston Fire Department goes out on an alarm call, getting to the scene of the emergency quickly can be a matter of life or death – but arriving there safely is just as important. From Jan. 1, 2019, through Nov. 5, 2022, the EFD reported 65 accidents involving a city-owned vehicle, according to data released to the RoundTable though a Freedom of Information Act request. The majority of the incidents (58, or 89% of the total) were described as minor. Five incidents resulted in some damage and two involved significant damage. As part of the budget development process, the Evanston Fire Department has set a goal to reduce the number of vehicle accidents in 2023 to less than 10. The EFD is not alone with respect to vehicular accidents. In fact, the safety issues surrounding traffic accidents and emergency vehicles – firetrucks, ambulances and police vehicles – has been studied at both the federal and local levels.  
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Orange County Fire Rescue released drone video on Tuesday showing crews working to rescue 63 people from The Wheel at ICON Park after the ride lost power on New Year's Eve. The video shows fire crews climbing up the ride and onto the gondolas to reach the people trapped inside on Saturday. More than 20 pods were occupied when the ride stopped functioning, according to fire rescue. Cell phone video prior to the rescue shows sparks and smoke pouring off the side of the giant Ferris wheel. Capt. Greg Hubbard with the Orlando Fire Department said this was the largest rescue conducted by the department. He said climbers went to each gondola to make sure those inside were OK and to alert them they were being helped.  
WKMG-TV CBS 6 ORLANDO  
VIDEO/PHOTOS: New data released Tuesday by the Seattle Fire Department shows the city's fire crews responded to 1,538 encampment fires during 2022, averaging 128 a month. The data reflects a slight increase from 2021, when Seattle Fire recorded 1,446 fires at encampments, and 854 in 2020. On Monday, KOMO News reported on an encampment fire in South Lake Union where wooden structures and tents burned. Seattle 911 data shows it was the fifth time an encampment fire had been reported on the block since August 2021. "I think the city needs to really take accountability," said John Marino, who lives near the encampment that burned. "They need to be responsible and clean this up immediately. We live here, we're concerned and by allowing this to continue it's getting worse." Members of the Seattle Fire Fighters Union IAFF Local 27 told city leadership last year that firefighters were reporting being assaulted at encampment fires, including cases of being threatened with weapons.  
KEPR-TV CBS/CW+ 19 PASCO  
VIDEO: "Firefighters have a nine percent greater chance of getting cancer than the general public, but we have a fourteen percent chance of dying from it than the general public," said Joe Schumacher, COO of the Firefighter Cancer Support Network. The Firefighter Cancer Support Network was created to help bring down that statistic and educate firefighters on protecting themselves from this disease. Schumacher is a three time cancer survivor and a thirty year firefighter veteran. He helps educate firefighters who have been diagnosed with cancer by supplying them a toolbox of resources they and their families can use during that difficult time, including a 230 page manual that covers all the questions they may have. Another one of their programs is the badge to badge support, which pairs two officers together that have and have survived the same type of cancer.  
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