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It appears the City of Rochester will fight recent court decision ordering the city to pay more than $3.2 million to reimburse firefighters.

Rochester Mayor Robert J. Duffy instructed the city's corporation counsel to appeal, according to a statement issued this week.

Portland planned to train its firefighters with smoke Thursday.

But they also got fire when the smoke grenades dropped into the abandoned house set trash inside on fire.

Fire Chief Jim Leahey said the nine firefighters had the fire under control throughout the drill at the house on the corner of Fourth and Houston streets.

The drill was part of several planned by the department to sharpen firefighters' skills.

Nov. 13--ANDERSON, Ind. -- The Anderson Fire Department will give up part of its ambulance user fee collections, set aside to maintain equipment and fire stations, to help pay for its salaries in the midst of a city budget crisis.

The City Council on Thursday approved an ordinance that allows the fire department to contribute $890,000 of its user fee money to the general fund, which can pay for firefighters' salaries.

ALBANY, Calif. --

Firefighters remained on the scene late Thursday evening of a massive lumber fire in Albany that broke out at a lumber yard near Point Isabel and the Richmond city line.

The flames could be seen for miles.

The fire broke out around 7:20 p.m.

A day after accusing the Philadelphia firefighters union of racial hostility in a federal lawsuit, a group of black firefighters pressed their grievances yesterday, saying the union cannot be trusted to protect their hard-won civil rights.

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. --

A mother and her three children were killed in an early-morning fire in Bridgeport Friday.

Firefighters were called to the P.T. Barnum complex at about 1 a.m.

The mother and her children were pulled from the burning building.

MADISON, Wis.

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The Madison Fire Department said a morning fire Thursday damaged some businesses on the city's East Side.

Firefighters responded to a report of a fire at Lazybones Laundry & Storage Service in the 4300 block of Neptune Court just before 2 a.m. Thursday.

Upon arrival, firefighters saw smoke coming from the building. Crews conducted a search of the building and quickly extinguished the fire, according to Bernadette Galvez, public information officer at the Madison Fire Department.

Nov. 12--A dispatcher error that sent two fire trucks to the wrong address during a fatal blaze in Woodside last week has exposed deep anger by some firefighters over the city's new 911 system.

McKEESPORT, Pa.

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Authorities are investigating after a blaze erupted at the magistrate's office in McKeesport early Thursday morning.

According to authorities, someone threw a Molotov Cocktail into the O'Neil Boulevard building, causing the blaze.

Police said the fire bomb was thrown before Magistrate Eugene F. Riazzi and his workers showed up for work.

Riazzi said he sees hundreds of cases a month and can't help but feel like a target.