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| Anchorage firefighters remember the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attack A bright, sunny day filled downtown Anchorage on Saturday, similar to the day in New York City when terrorists attacked the twin towers exactly 20 years ago. Firefighters and others filled the Alaska Fallen Firefighter Memorial to remember that day. "We place flags for the fallen. We listen reverently as firefighters and public figures speak hoping to find something new to say," said Anchorage Fire Chief Douglas Schrage. "Nothing new needs saying. Through these things, we keep alive of what they did on 9/11." Others recalled the helplessness they felt that day. "We wanted to do something, we wanted to respond, we wanted to go somewhere," said Mark Barker, chairman of the Alaska Fallen Firefighter Memorial Committee. KTUU-TV NBC 2 ANCHORAGE PREVIOUS STATE NEWS |
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| VIDEO: Fire destroys dozens of cars at Indiana auto yard Firefighters say more than three dozen cars caught fire Wednesday morning at a south side business. Crews used tanker trucks to bring water deep into the auto yard. Once the water supply was established, crews had the fire under control in about 40 minutes. Indianapolis Fire Department crews were dispatched around 1:45 a.m. to Insurance Auto Auctions located at 3202 S. Harding St. IFD found about 40 cars on fire when crews arrived at the location. Heavy fire destroyed the cars, IFD said. No injuries were reported. The fire remains under investigation. IFD said the company was looking into the possibility that a lightning strike from thunderstorms overnight may have started the fire. WXIN-TV FOX 59 INDIANAPOLIS As Wildfires Burn, Are U.S. Cities Spending Too Much on Their Fire Departments? It may sound surprising in an era characterized by increasingly destructive wildfires, but Stephen Jellie just spent the past year trying to get rid of firefighters. Jellie is the fire chief and city manager of Ogdensburg, N.Y., a town on the Canadian border that's small and getting smaller—10,064 lived there in April 2020, down from 12,375 in 1980. The city kept raising taxes to try to save itself from financial distress, but costs were spiraling out of control. "We let it creep—we just kept putting resources into public safety," he told me. "But you can't run a city with just a fire department and a police department." Ogdensburg isn't unusual in cities and towns across the U.S.—even as the number of home fires has fallen significantly over the past few decades, spending on municipal fire departments has skyrocketed. TIME - METERED SITE Oklahoma firefighters rescue country superstar Reba McEntire from second-story window after stairs collapse VIDEO: A close call for a Texoma country superstar, Reba McEntire, had to be evacuated on a fire ladder from a second-story window Tuesday afternoon. "Oh it was pretty scary, I was worried about who was downstairs and how bad it was," Coby Scherrill said. Scherrill was touring an historic building downtown Atoka Tuesday afternoon with Reba McEntire for a future project. "We were just touring the building and the stairwell was weak it seemed weak but we did not realize how weak it was until several people had gone down it and then we heard the crash and saw the stairs fall," Scherrill says. City of Atoka Emergency Management Director, Travis Mullins, said the stairwell from the second story to the third collapsed, falling onto the stairwell from the first to the second floor, and trapping people on whatever floor they were on at the time. KXII-TV CBS/FOX 12 SHERMAN Pennsylvania township to donate fire engine to tornado-ravaged Alabama fire department The Whitehall Township Bureau of Fire will donate a retired fire engine to a volunteer fire company in central eastern Alabama ravaged last spring by a tornado. The Whitehall Township Board of Commissioners unanimously approved the donation at its Monday night meeting. According to Whitehall Fire Chief David Nelson, the 1990 Mack special edition fire engine placed out of service three years ago will be transported to the Shinbone Valley Volunteer Fire Department in Delta, Alabama. The department lost all of its firefighting equipment due to a sudden and severe tornado which raised the fire station to the ground. Nelson said the engine, which at municipal auction would net Whitehall about $4,000, would be put to a better and more appreciated use down South as opposed to becoming a showpiece here in the Lehigh Valley. WFMZ-TV 69 ALLENTOWN PREVIOUS NATIONAL NEWS |
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| EMS Day Car Position - Hermiston, OR Battalion Chief - Sacramento County Airport Fire - Sacramento, CA Assistant Fire Chief - Orcas Island Fire & Rescue - Eastsound, WA Firefighter I / EMT III / Paramedic - Central Emergency Services - Soldotna, AK Fire Inspector - Central Marin Fire Authority - Corte Madera, CA Lateral Firefighter (Paramedic preferred) - City of Vancouver - Vancouver, WA Shift Officer - Chena-Goldstream Fire & Rescue - Fairbanks, AK Assistant Chief - Chena Goldstream Fire & Rescue - Fairbanks, AK Fire Chief - City of Ketchikan - Ketchikan, AK Assistant Fire Chief - Tumwater Fire Department - Tumwater, WA Firefighter/Paramedic - City of La Grande - La Grande, OR Firefighter EMS / Firefighter Paramedic - Central Cascades Fire & EMS - Crescent Lake, OR Assistant Fire Chief - City of Manitowoc - Manitowoc, WI Fire Chief - Livingston Fire Rescue - Livingston, MT Fire Chief - Pioneer Fire Protection District - Somerset, CA Paramedic 911 Ambulance - Mount Shasta Ambulance - Mount Shasta, CA Training Officer - New Carlton Fire District - Lafayette, OR Firefighter/Paramedic - Oakridge Fire & EMS - Oakridge, OR Deputy Fire Marshal - Pierce County Department of Emergency Management - Tacoma, WA Confidential Recruiting: - What is it? Community Risk Reduction Coordinator - Evergreen Fire/Rescue - Evergreen, CO (closes: Sep 15, 2021) Division Chief of Community Risk Reduction (Fire Marshal) - Sedona Fire District - Sedona, AZ (closes: Sep 16, 2021) Volunteer Firefighter Recruitment & Retention Coordinator - Woodburn Fire District - Woodburn, OR (closes: Sep 17, 2021) Fire Chief - Town of St. Johnsbury - St. Johnsbury, VT (closes: Sep 17, 2021) Support Services Division Chief - City of Hillsboro - Hillsboro, OR (closes: Sep 19, 2021) Emergency Medical Services Specialist - County of San Bernardino - San Bernardino, CA (closes: Sep 23, 2021) Single Role Paramedic - Marion County Fire District #1 - Salem, OR (closes: Sep 24, 2021) Fire Prevention Officer I/II - City of Bishop - Bishop, CA (closes: Sep 25, 2021) Fire Chief - Alhambra Fire Department - Alhambra, CA (closes: Sep 26, 2021) Firefighter/Paramedic (Lateral/Entry-level) - North Tahoe Fire Protection District - Tahoe City, CA (closes: Sep 27, 2021) Firefighter/Paramedic - City of Kalispell - Kalispell, MT (closes: Sep 27, 2021) Fire Chief - Town of Granby - Granby, MA (closes: Sep 27, 2021) Paramedic - Klamath County Fire District 1 - Klamath Falls, OR (closes: Sep 30, 2021) Lateral Firefighter/Paramedic - North County Regional Fire Authority - Stanwood, WA (closes: Sep 30, 2021) Fire Captain - Campbell County Fire Department - Gillette, WY (closes: Sep 30, 2021) Entry Level / Lateral Entry Firefighters - McLane Black Lake Fire Department - Olympia, WA (closes: Sep 30, 2021) Firefighter - Clark County Fire District 3 - Brush Prairie, WA (closes: Oct 01, 2021) Firefighter/Paramedic - Teton County Fire & Rescue - Teton Valley, ID (closes: Oct 01, 2021) Fire Marshal (Safety/Non-Safety) - North Tahoe Fire Protection District - Tahoe City, CA (closes: Oct 01, 2021) Firefighter - City of Twin Falls - Twin Falls, ID (closes: Oct 03, 2021) Firefighter EMT / Pending Paramedic / Firefighter Paramedic - Kansas Fire Department - Kansas City, KS (closes: Oct 06, 2021) Firefighter/Emergency Medical Technician - Chelan County Fire District 1 & Douglas County Fire District 2 - Wenatchee, WA (closes: Oct 13, 2021) Fire Chief - Worley Fire Protection District - Worley, ID (closes: Oct 14, 2021) Division Fire Chief - City of Marina - Marina, CA (closes: Oct 15, 2021) Firefighter/Paramedic - City of Bend - Bend, OR (closes: Oct 15, 2021) Firefighter/Paramedic - Novato Fire District - Novato, CA (closes: Oct 15, 2021) Structural Firefighter - Eagle Fire Department - Eagle, ID (closes: Oct 29, 2021) Structural Firefighter/ Heavy Fire Equipment Operator - Eagle Fire Department - Eagle, ID (closes: Oct 29, 2021) Lateral and Entry-Level Firefighter/Paramedic - Umatilla County Fire District #1 - Hermiston, OR (closes: Dec 18, 2021) POST JOB MORE JOBS |
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| New VFCA Online Event: Understanding and Navigating Generational Differences with Jan Spence - Online - September 22, 2021 IFSAC Fire Service Instructor 1 - South King County Fire Training Consortium - Kent, WA - October 4-8, 2021 Fire Officer 3 - Mason County Fire District 6 - Union, WA - October 11-20, 2021 IFSAC Fire Officer 1 - South King County Fire Training Consortium - Kent, WA - October 18-22, 2021 Fire Prevention Institute - Campbell's Resort - Lake Chelan, WA - October 18-22, 2021 Fire Service Inspector 2 - Fowler Fire Education and Certification - Online - October 18-23, 2021 Rick Lasky - Pride and Ownership - Failing to Read the Building & Sweating the Small Stuff - Selah, WA - October 30-31, 2021 First Responder Wellness, PTSD & Suicide in Public Safety - International Public Safety Leadership & Ethics Institute - Anaheim, CA - November 1, 2021 Fire Inspector 1 Boot Camp - Washington State Association of Fire Marshals - Virtual - November 1-4, 2021 IFSAC Fire Officer 2 - South King County Fire Training Consortium - Kent, WA - November 8-12, 2021 IFSAC Fire Service Instructor 2 - South King County Fire Training Consortium - Kent, WA - November 15-19, 2021 Fire Service Inspector 2 - Fowler Fire Education and Certification - Online - December 6-11, 2021 POST EVENT MORE EVENTS |
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