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Kidde, Country Music Star Chris Young Increase Fire Safety and Help Burn-Injured Firefighters
2014-11-05 22:15:43| Industrial Machines - Topix.net
Programs announced before "The 48th Annual CMA Awards" on ABC with the support of fire service leaders, burn survivors and Country Music icon Kix Brooks and fire service leaders to offer their support to new campaigns that will help protect families and assist burn-injured firefighters. Kidde, a leading manufacturer of residential fire safety products, is a part of UTC Building & Industrial Systems, a unit of United Technologies Corp. .
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BNSF Railway training Washington firefighters in oil train accidents - Wed, 24 Sep 2014 PST
2014-09-24 19:03:37| Railroads - Topix.net
Burlington Northern Santa Fe is paying for 142 Washington firefighters to receive training in Pueblo, Colorado, in oil train accidents. The Seattle Times reports the classes began in July and will continue through the end of the year.
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California firefighters face tough wildfire season
2014-09-24 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
KABC: With the amount of wildfires California has already seen this year, it might come as a bit of a surprise that traditional fire season is just getting underway. Black hillsides and firefighters cleaning up some burned vegetation are the only remaining signs of the Silverado Fire that burned 968 acres in Silverado Canyon in the Cleveland National Forest earlier this month. The blaze was another reminder that fire season never really ended in California. "We're in the third year of a drought, so...
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Firefighters make progress battling blaze near California's Yosemite
2014-09-07 06:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Crews battling a wildfire on the outskirts of Yosemite National Park in central California reported progress Saturday containing the blaze and evacuation orders were lifted for all but a handful of about 700 homes, officials said. The blaze, named the Bridge Fire, was 60 percent contained and holding steady at 300 acres (120 hectares), one day after it erupted in Mariposa County near Oakhurst, some 14 miles (22.5 kilometers) southwest of the national park, according to the California Department...
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Wildfire near California-Oregon border 'extreme,' firefighters say
2014-09-03 19:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Firefighters battling a fast-moving Northern California blaze said Wednesday they expect a second day of extreme conditions, as heat and high winds spur a lightning-sparked wildfire near the Oregon border. The so-called Happy Camp Fire has been burning in the Klamath National Forest since Aug. 11, consuming 72,000 acres and costing an estimated $41 million so far in firefighting costs. "Yesterday, we had an increase in extreme fire behavior ... and we do expect the same extreme fire today,...
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