Could VIA save big bucks? Manning its own fire station one way to save money
However, as the board mulled cost-cutting steps, members discussed staffing a fire department to cut $965,000 it pays the city to provide fire protection.
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Grant will pay for more FD fire personnel
Assistant Fire Chief Lenny Sanders told the City Council Monday that he learned Friday that the grant had been approved. The $444,594 grant is from the Federal Emergency Management Agency's Staffing Adequately for Fire and Emergency Response program.
Mercersburg fire department receives grant
Mercersburg fire department receives grant The fire company received more than $200,000 through a grant from the Department of Homeland Security. Check out this story on publicopiniononline.com: http://ponews.co/2bgC07x MERCERSBURG - The Mercersburg Montgomery Peters and Warren Fire Company received more than $200,000 through a grant from the Department of Homeland Security.
Firefighters evacuate Milwaukie apartment complex after suspected arson
Clackamas firefighters responded Saturday, Aug. 20, 016, to an apartment fire at in the 8100 block of Southeast Lake Road. No serious injuries were reported.
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LIFE IS A BEACH: A beach goer plays with his dogs off of Hobie Island Beach Park on Virginia Key, Wednesday, Aug. 17, in Miami. Sandals mark the crime scene, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2016, not far from the Al-Furqan Jame Masjid Mosque in the Ozone Park neighborhood of Queens, New York, where the leader of a New York City mosque has been fatally shot and an associate has been wounded in a brazen daylight attack.
Fire roars into California town, destroying over 100 homes
U.S. stocks are rising Monday morning as energy companies trade higher with the price of oil. Chemical and mining companies are making the largest gains.
Five things missing in GOP bid to unseat Marco Rubio
In his long shot bid to defeat Marco Rubio, Republican Carlos Beruff has yet to ignite the type of political grass fire that two years ago took out a top Republican leader in the U.S. House and nearly claimed four U.S. Senators. Following the insurgent's playbook, Beruff has spent more than $8 million of his own money on television ads.
3 dead in Madeira Islands as wildfire spreads into capital
Flames from forest fires licked at hom... . A forest fire rages near houses in Curral dos Romeiros, on the outskirts of Funchal, the capital of the Madeira island, Portugal Tuesday, Aug. 9 2016.
Meet Trump’s latest political enemy: Fire marshals
Even before Donald Trump kicked off his town hall event Monday he gathered reporters to decry "politics at its lowest" - but he wasn't talking about Hillary Clinton or the latest controversy swirling around his campaign, his feud with the parents of a slain Muslim US soldier. Instead, Trump was unleashing on the local fire marshal, accusing the city official of turning away thousands of Trump supporters without cause.
Fight continues against Big Sur fire; new blaze near Fresno
Crews continued to battle a massive wildfire near California's Big Sur that is threatening thousands of homes as another one broke out in Fresno County and quickly spread, prompting the evacuation of 300 homes... Crews battled a massive wildfire near California's Big Sur that is threatening thousands of homes as it burns for the tenth day, while a much newer fire in Fresno County quickly spread, damaging homes as it grew to... The new Miss Teen USA will get to keep her crown despite an outcry over tweets she once wrote using racist language. The new Miss Teen USA will get to keep her crown despite an outcry over tweets she once wrote using racist language.
Young boy who went missing from Boston beach found dead
Sen. Bernie Sanders urged supporters to rally behind Hillary Clinton at the Democratic convention, but ardent followers who marched for hours in punishing heat Monday and planned to do so again seemed intent on... Bernie Sanders loyalists protested inside and outside the Democratic National Convention site and clashed with police on Tuesday after Hillary Clinton won the party's presidential nomination. Most of the roughly 20,000 evacuees forced out by a wildfire have been cleared to go home, but firefighters still had huge work ahead in taming a massive wildfire northwest of Los Angeles.
Obama expanding refugee program for Central Americans
The Obama administration will soon expand efforts to help Central American families and children legally immigrate to the United States amid another surge of migrants caught crossing the border illegally. The Obama administration will soon expand efforts to help Central American families and children legally immigrate to the United States amid another surge of migrants caught crossing the border illegally.
Miami mother tells court missing toddler is dead
Stephanie White clutched a stack of photos while sitting in a chair in her home. The television was on, loud, and turned to the local news.
The Latest: Archbishop of Rouen: Slain priest was 84
Two attackers seized hostages in a church near the Normandy city of Rouen on ... . In this grab made from video, police officers close off a road during a hostage situation in Normandy, France, Tuesday, July 26, 2016.
Texas police officer killed in apparent burglary attempt
The last of the three Louisiana law enforcement officers killed in an ambush near a busy highway in Baton Rouge is being buried Monday. Hundreds of law enforcement officers from around the country streamed past the casket Monday of a slain Baton Rouge police officer, some solemnly saluting and others making the sign of the cross as they paid their respects... Authorities say two people have been killed and more than a dozen shot at a nightclub in Fort Myers, Florida.
The Latest: Police want to talk to those injured in shooting
The last of the three Louisiana law enforcement officers killed in an ambush near a busy highway in Baton Rouge is being buried Monday. Hundreds of law enforcement officers from around the country streamed past the casket Monday of a slain Baton Rouge police officer, some solemnly saluting and others making the sign of the cross as they paid their respects... Authorities say two people have been killed and more than a dozen shot at a nightclub in Fort Myers, Florida.
Heat wave, drought showing no signs of slowing down
A wildfire burns in the East Walker Ranch open space on Placerita Caynon Road in Santa Clarita, Calif., Sunday, July 24, 2016. Flames raced down a steep hillside "like a freight train," leaving smoldering remains of homes and warnings that more communities should be ready to flee the wildfire churning through tinder-dry canyons in Southern California, authorities said Sunday.
Mother of toddler abducted from Primark says pictures of her…
Smoke and a layer of 'apocalyptic-looking' ash covers Los Angeles as huge 20,000-acre wildfire burns out of control north of the city and forces at least 1,000 residents to abandon their homes College student, 20, who vanished on a bike ride is found dead after being 'abducted' by man who committed an eerily similar crime 26 years ago but only served three years Trump says French and Germans could face 'extreme vetting' before entering US because their countries have been 'compromised by terrorism' White Sox pitcher 'cuts up his team's novelty uniforms because he doesn't want to wear them' and is pulled from game Donald Trump's phantom lovers: How the man who would be President posed as his own publicist to claim he'd slept with the world's most desirable women ... and is still lying about it 25 years later The Kaine man! Clinton makes first appearance on the campaign trail in Miami with ... (more)
Lookout Mountain, Ga. To Hire Owner’s Representative For Long-Delayed Town Center Project
The Lookout Mountain, Ga., town center project that has been a source of slow development is seeing some progress, officials said Thursday night.
Convention protesters dispute police account of flag-burning
The organizers of a flag-burning outside the Republican convention that resulted in 17 arrests said Thursday that the man holding the American flag was never on fire and that police used that as an excuse to attack them. Among those arrested was Gregory "Joey" Johnson, whose torching of a flag at a GOP convention three decades ago led to the landmark 1989 U.S. Supreme Court decision that said flag-burning is protected by the First Amendment.