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California Progress Report
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California Progress Report
Ostensibly, these chemicals are put into furniture to protect us from fire, but 35 years of fire safety science shows they don't do their job. Still, policymakers have defended the rule, most recently by a vote of eight to one in a California senate ...

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New No. 5 fire station ready
Laurel Leader Call
By Eloria Newell James, community@leadercall.com Laurel Leader-Call LAUREL — A ribbon cutting ceremony will be conducted today for the City of Laurel's newest fire station. Nearly 70 years after the construction of it's original building, ...

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Man already in jail charged in seven-year-old Manitoba house fire
Winnipeg Free Press
WINNIPEG - Manitoba Mounties have arrested a man and charged him with second-degree murder seven years after a teenage girl was found dead in her family's trailer. Cpl. Miles Hiebert says 16-year-old Chantelle Rikheim's body was found after the fire in ...

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Set nativity on fire, man gets year in jail
Brantford Expositor
By EXPOSITOR STAFF A 39-year-old Victoria Street man was sentenced on Thursday to time served plus 12 months in jail for a series of crimes, including setting fire to the downtown nativity scene, breaking in to a towing company compound and driving ...


 
Roanoke Times
Founder of Elliston fire department hangs up his chief's helmet
Roanoke Times
Fifty-five years after he helped found the fire department, Pug Wells is stepping down. But he's not done answering the call of duty. By Mike Gangloff Pug Wells, who served as chief of the Elliston Volunteer Fire Department for 48 years, stepped down ...


 
Dobbins Deputy Fire Chief Celebrates 33 Years of Service
Patch.com
Eric L. McDaniel, Dobbins Fire Emergency Services deputy chief, reflects on his 33 year career during a retirement ceremony at the Dobbins Consolidated Club Jan. 17. US Air Force photo/Don Peek Eric L. McDaniel, Dobbins Fire Emergency Services deputy ...


 
OregonLive.com
Erin Janssens named to serve as next Portland fire chief
OregonLive.com
Janssens, 47, becomes the first woman to serve as the city's fire chief and will succeed John Klum, who has announced he's retiring in June. Klum, 54, has served four years as chief, and a total of 34 years with the fire service. He turns 55 on June 8.
Portland names first female fire chiefKPTV.com

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