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At a time when most history museums are cut out of the state budget, two donors gave the Fire Museum of Maryland a combined donation of $185,000. The donations will help replenish its endowment and help the museum to conserve the third largest collection of fire apparatus and artifacts in the world. They will also provide matching funds for new grant opportunities. Both donors requested amenity with their donations of $25,000 and $160,000.

TAMARAC, Fla.

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The Broward Sheriff's Office continues to investigate a fatal fire at a home located at 6020 Woodland Point Drive Sunday morning.

Firefighters responded after getting the call around 6:30 a.m.

According to BSO, two people died and another person was injured in the fire. Investigators said friends had gathered at the home for a birthday party and to watch the Pacquiao/Cotto boxing match.

NEW HAVEN, Conn.

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A man was arrested Sunday after New Haven police said he set his wife on fire.

According to police, Howard Stewart, 50, intentionally set fire to his second-floor apartment, located at 14 Market Street, at about 8 a.m. after doused his wife and 12-year-old stepdaughter with a flammable liquid.

Police said Stewart's wife suffered second- and third-degree burns and was transported to Bridgeport Hospital’s Burn Unit.

SHELBY, N.C.

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Emergency crews searched for hours Sunday afternoon for two teenagers who drowned after their boat capsized in a Cleveland County pond.

Deputies said the search was difficult because the water in the private two and a half acre pond was very muddy and murky after the recent rainfall.

Justin Bourgeois was with the teens in the moments before they went under. "I kept yelling grab the boat," Bourgeois said.

Nov. 15--The owners of a Harborcreek Township business damaged early Saturday by fire believe the blaze might have started in an electrical panel.

The fire was reported about5 a.m. at Harborcreek Resales, a used-car dealership and repair shop at 6850 Buffalo Road.

Five volunteer fire departments responded to fight the blaze, but much of the building and the equipment inside was destroyed.

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A fire started in a second-story apartment in Eureka Saturday morning was quickly extinguished.

The Eureka Fire Department and Humboldt County Fire District No. 1 responded to the 1200 block of Long Street at about 1:05 a.m. to a report of smoke from a second floor window.

One of the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office's combat crosses given out Friday went to an unlikely candidate: a firefighter.

The death of Osage volunteer firefighter Michael Cobb, 39, Pryor, has been classified as a homicide, according to the Mayes County Sheriff's Office.

Cobb's body was found inside his home following a fire that destroyed the house on Apr. 28.

LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga.

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A classroom trailer behind a Lawrenceville elementary school has been destroyed by an early-morning fire.

Gwinnett County Fire and Emergency Services spokesman Capt. Tommy Rutledge said in a statement that firefighters responded at 3:24 a.m. Saturday to a report of smoke behind Cedar Hill Elementary School.

Firefighters had to force entry through a locked gate to get to the fire and then had to force entry into the trailer.

Nov. 14--MOULTRIE -- A heater being used to dry pecans caught a trailer full of them on fire, damaging the trailer, early Friday morning. A firefighter was injured fighting the flames.

DICKSON, Tenn.

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Traffic along Interstate 40 eastbound was blocked Friday at mile marker 180 near Dickson after a tour bus caught fire, according to the Tennessee Highway Patrol.

Officers were at the scene at 4 p.m. diverting traffic around the crash. There were no reports of injuries.

The bus was being towed by a wrecker when it caught fire. Officials with the Dickson County Rescue Squad said it appears the fire originated in the bus engine compartment.

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.

VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. --

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has removed a controversial picture it was using of a Volusia County firefighter killed in the line of duty.

John Curry died two years ago during a training accident. For some reason, a blogger posted Curry's picture next to a story about another firefighter who's in prison for selling pornography.

PHOENIX --

More than two dozen firefighters from the Scottsdale and Phoenix fire departments battled a blaze that broke out at a foreclosed home at about 4:30 a.m.

MILFORD, Conn.

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Police in Milford said eight people were injured when a car crashed into a nail salon Thursday afternoon.

Police said that at 3:15 Thursday afternoon, multiple 911 calls were received of a car that crashed into Sun Nails on Bridgeport Avenue in Milford.

Multiple units were dispatched and upon arriving, they discovered seven people were injured. Officials immediately began to triage the patients.

LOS ANGELES --

Federal investigators have found the spread of a deadly wildfire in Los Angeles County could not be stopped because flames had reached steep terrain that firefighters couldn't access.

A U.S. Forest Service report released Friday to The Associated Press says commanders used the best professional practices while trying to knock down the Station Fire burning in Angeles National Forest.

The 72-page report focused on firefighter response to the fire's early stages in late August.

The use of a aerial ladder when a ground ladder may have been a safer choice, the absence of a helmet and potentially diminished vision were listed as key contributing factors in the death of a Rhode Island firefighter earlier this year, according to a report released by NIOSH.

Kingston Assistant Chief Allan "Pickles" LePage died on June 30, a day after suffering a severe head injury while he operated a platform aerial ladder from within the platform.

DALLAS
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Authorities say an early morning blaze swept through a house in Dallas, killing a couple and their 5-year-old son.

Dallas Fire-Rescue spokesman Jason Evans says the fire on Thursday apparently got into a stairwell and quickly moved to the second floor of the home.

The Dallas County medical examiner's office says the victims were a man, a woman and a child, but did not release their identities.

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.

HARTFORD, Conn. --

Firefighter Mike Di'Giacomo said his SUV is banned from in the firehouse because the bumper stickers he has on it, displays his political views.

Di'Giacomo said he has never run into a problem like this in the 10 years he has been with the department.

The bumper stickers read: