A photograph of firefighters folding an American flag outside a fire-damaged Libertyville home turned heads on social media Wednesday. The scene unfolded Tuesday — just one day after Americans celebrated the country's independence — when a fire started at a house in the 500 block of Fairhill Road about 2 p.
- PUB DATE: 7/7/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Chicago Tribune

A D.C. firefighter is under investigation for inflammatory posts he made on Facebook in response to the fatal police shooting of a 37-year-old black man in Louisiana. Sources told FOX 5’s Paul Wagner that D.C. police were informed about the posts made Wednesday on the Facebook page of firefighter Norman Brooks and reported it to D.
- PUB DATE: 7/7/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: fox5dc.com

A 43-year-old Chicago firefighter died Tuesday, nearly a month after he was struck by a minivan in a hit-and-run crash in the North Side Rogers Park neighborhood. On June 12, Lorenzo Douglas was outside of his parked vehicle about 7:30 p.m. when a minivan going north in the 6500 block of North Ashland moved into the southbound lanes and hit him, his vehicle and two other parked vehicles, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner's office.
- PUB DATE: 7/7/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: abc7chicago.com

A homeless man suffered life-threatening injuries in downtown San Diego Wednesday morning in what police say is the fourth in a series of grisly attacks that has already left two homeless men dead and another severely injured. Arson investigators were dispatched to 900 block of State Street around 5 a.
- PUB DATE: 7/7/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: fox5sandiego.com

More than 500,000 balancing scooters — better known as hoverboards, though they do no hovering — are being recalled because of the risk of fire or explosions. The devices were extremely popular gifts this past holiday season. Online, they were hits in viral dance videos ... and in less-impressive videos of people falling off their new toys.
- PUB DATE: 7/7/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: NPR

On July 5, 3 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On July 1, 6 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On July 5, 2 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

Mike Kehren, Goodhue's fire chief and member of the Lions and Goodhue School Board, was killed early Monday when he fell off the tow bar between two hay wagons and was run over, according to Mike Lodermeier, a former fire chief and a member of the department. "The whole town is in shock," said Dick Banidt, a fire captain and lifelong friend of Kehren, 58.
- PUB DATE: 7/6/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: post-bulletin

There are Fireworks and fire fears in one local community today. That's because Lorain laid off nearly 2 dozen firefighters as it fights to close a 3-point-6 million dollar deficit. As we've been telling you, the fire department, is upset over the decision. Members now explain the layoffs couldn't have come at a more inconvenient time.
- PUB DATE: 7/6/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WEWS-TV IBS 5 Cleveland

PHOTOS - The Great Cacapon Volunteer Fire Department is a total loss and at least half of its firefighting equipment has been destroyed after a fire earlier today ripped through the fire hall on Spring Street, authorities said. Firefighters from four states battled the blaze in Morgan County for several hours.
- PUB DATE: 7/6/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Martinsburg Journal

Firefighters responding to reports of a grass fire in Parleys Canyon may have saved a woman's life after they happened to come across a man who they say was trying to hang her. "They took action where they saw it needed to be," said Sgt. Randy Riches with the State Bureau of Investigations. "They didn't hesitate.
- PUB DATE: 7/6/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KSL-TV NBC 5

Six firefighters were hospitalized Tuesday after being exposed to a "chemical haze" emitted from a warehouse on Port Carteret Drive, officials said. Borough firefighters responding to the warehouse around 2 a.m. found smoke, but no flames, said Carteret fire Chief Mark Hruska. "It was smoke from a chemical reaction," he said.
- PUB DATE: 7/6/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Newark Star-Ledger/NJ.com

A Lucas County judge on Tuesday rejected the contention by attorneys for Ray Abou-Arab, who was accused of arson, that investigators intentionally discarded a preliminary report that may have pointed to their client's innocence. Common Pleas Judge Stacy Cook denied a motion filed more than a year ago by attorneys for Mr.
- PUB DATE: 7/6/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: toledo blade

On July 5, 1 residential fire fatality was reported by the Nation's news media.

On July 4, 3 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

On July 4, 1 residential fire fatality was reported by the Nation's news media.

On July 1, 5 residential fire fatalities were reported by the Nation's news media.

PHOTO - Authorities are trying to figure out who broke into the Smith Valley fire hall on Foys Lake Road late Saturday night or early Sunday morning and set a fire that caused massive damage. The fallout is expected to slow response to emergency calls in the area. Fire Chief D.C. Haas of the Smith Valley Fire Department said firefighters responded to the hall at around 11 a.
- PUB DATE: 7/5/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: daily interlake

When the first paramedics arrived on the scene of the Pulse nightclub shooting, they could still hear gunfire coming from inside the club. In active-shooting cases, recent federal guidelines call for medics to put on body armor and go into potentially dangerous situations alongside police officers when possible.
- PUB DATE: 7/5/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: orlando sentinel