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San Bernardino Sun
Posted: December 24th, 2002

City officials have tentative plans for a third fire station on the west end of town.

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Posted: December 23rd, 2002

At 8 p.m., firefighters were sent to the building in the 7900 block of Lynwood Way near Temple Avenue."The interesting thing is that witnesses, as they were driving by, noticed a little bit of a fire inside the place, but they didn't stop.

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Reprinted with Permission, The Press Telegram
Posted: December 23rd, 2002

A fire truck responding to a traffic accident early Sunday morning became involved in one itself when it collided with a car, critically injuring three passengers.

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Sarasota Herald-Tribune
Posted: December 23rd, 2002

Moments after firefighters used hydraulic Jaws of Life tools to free four people in the wrecked car early Sunday, they rushed on foot to rescue a woman pinned under a car in another accident at a nearby fast-food restaurant, Fire Department spokesman...

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Posted: December 23rd, 2002

Thanks to an abundance of rain, San Diego County's fire season has been officially declared over.

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Posted: December 23rd, 2002

Firefighters rescued a man from his crashed car, and freeway racing may have been a factor in the accident.

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San Diego Union Tribune
Posted: December 23rd, 2002

Troubled financial markets and city fiscal policy have taken a huge bite out of San Diego's $2.3 billion public-employee retirement system. Ron Saathoff, president of the city's firefighters union and a retirement board member, placed much of the blame...

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Orange County Register
Posted: December 22nd, 2002

Despite 27 years as an Anaheim firefighter, there's still something of the little boy in 56-year-old George Mendoza.

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Associated Press
Posted: December 22nd, 2002

Department has begun an aggressive recruitment program to hire about 45 firefighters in the next three years.

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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Posted: December 22nd, 2002

About two dozen veteran firefighters who spent months battling a series of destructive wildfires across the West have been ordered to return thousands of dollars in overtime pay.