" June 18, 2007 Connecticut - A late afternoon Fathers Day fire left three families displaced at 36 Cooke Street in Waterbury. The Waterbury Fire Department was summoned to the scene after a police patrol unit spotted the fire during routine patrol of the neighborhood. An...
" June 18, 2007 California - A South San Francisco temple suffered serious structural damage when a fire broke out early this morning, following a religious service on Sunday evening. They were burning something and didn't properly extinguish it, said Capt. Jeff Gatton of the...
" June 17, 2007 Florida - Claiming they were pushed into a corner by a pending county law, Surfside commissioners voted in favor of a resolution to withdraw the town's fire-rescue services from Miami-Dade County and switch over to Miami Beach. The switch will not take effect...
" June 17, 2007 Tennessee - Thursday, June 14, 2007 - 11:00 pm - East Ridge Fire Station 2, less than two blocks from Interstate 75, was shaken by what at the time seem to be thunder. However, firefighters learned within seconds that this was not thunder but something much...
" June 17, 2007 District of Columbia - A Capitol Hill house where Sen. Barack Obama rents an apartment caught on fire Sunday, but a spokesman said the Democratic presidential contender was out of town to celebrate Father's Day. The fire appeared to be on the third floor of a...
" June 17, 2007 Virginia - Their friendship started with a few short words through a backyard fence. On one side was Trevor, a shy, young boy with autism who liked his neighbor's dog. On the other was Thomas Harris, a married man in his 50s. The boy's trust grew. He began...
" June 18, 2007 Nebraska - A fire that spread from a grill destroyed a house and two cars, and damaged two neighboring houses and two cars Sunday in Council Bluffs, a fire official said. No one was injured in the fire, which was reported about 2 p.m., at 2406 Avenue A. The...
" June 16, 2007 Oklahoma - A fire early Friday wiped out a downtown dry cleaner and is under investigation. Miami Fire Chief Kevin Trease said firefighters arrived at the Miami Laundry Dry Cleaners, 217 S Main, about 1:30 a.m. and contained the blaze about five hours later....
" June 16, 2007 New York - Capt. Mark Morganti has been injured fighting blazes at three separate vacant house fires over his career but that's nothing unusual for city firefighters. His closest brush with death came about eight years ago, when he and his crew were in the...
" June 17, 2007 California - The second-to-last lesson for 32 firefighter recruits nearing their graduation: In a wildfire, wind changes everything. That's why the recruits from the Alameda County Fire Department, Livermore-Pleasanton Fire Department, San Ramon Valley Fire...
" June 15, 2007 Michigan - One apartment was destroyed and several others were damaged by smoke and water when a fire broke out this morning at Knob in the Woods apartments on 11 Mile Road near Evergreen. Southfield Fire Chief Peter Healy said there were no reports of...
" June 15, 2007 Illinois - Three workers were severely burned this afternoon when a fire broke out as they were varnishing a floor in a condominium on the city's South Side. The blaze started around 1 p.m. as the workers were applying a flammable coating to the wood floor of...
" June 15, 2007 Ohio - Rossford firefighters have taken part in the Northwest Ohio Volunteer Firefighters' Association Convention for years, but have always had to travel to another community to participate in the festivities. This year, the 35 Rossford firefighters don't...
" June 15, 2007 New Mexico - Bernalillo County's decision to put a former union leader in charge of the Fire Department is going to be expensive. The county has agreed to pay $150,000 to longtime Fire Chief Bett Clark, according to a settlement obtained by the Journal. In...
" June 15, 2007 Virginia - A family of three escaped from a Suffolk house fire early this morning because an 11-year-old girl saw the fire in her bedroom and alerted her grandmother and another relative. Suffolk Fire Department spokesman Capt. Jim Judkins said the fire...
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