| Daily News for America's Fire Service |
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| VIDEO: The City of Silvis swore in a new fire chief Wednesday. Fire Chief David Johnson was sworn in at noon at the Silvis Main Fire Station. He replaces former chief John Winters who resigned last October. |
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| VIDEOS: Crestwood Fire Chief Jonathan Newton said crews were called to the 14100 block of South Kenneth Court shortly after 2 p.m. |
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| VIDEO: The Illinois state fire marshal is investigating two fires that happened overnight in Cahokia Heights. The first one happened just before midnight on Lazercheff Drive, off Illinois Route 157. |
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| VIDEO: An extra-alarm fire damaged two buildings and killed a number of pets Thursday afternoon in the Ukrainian Village neighborhood. A large plume of heavy smoke was seen pouring from the building. |
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| VIDEO/PHOTOS: A nearly century-old piece of Appleton history has been restored to its former glory. On Thursday, the Appleton Fire Department's 1928 Seagrave Old Engine No. 5 was on display at the Appleton History Museum. |
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| VIDEO: Riverview's Martin Lemay attended culinary school in his native Montreal. Being a chef is incredibly cool, of course. But Martin, well, he wanted to get even cooler. So now he's a firefighter — that's right, a firefighting chef — who feeds his first responder colleagues at North Port Fire Rescue. |
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| PHOTOS: Anker Innovations is recalling over 1 million of its power banks after the company says it received 19 reports of fires and explosions caused by the items. There have been 11 reports of property damage totaling over $60,700, says Anker. |
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