Rural Fire Volunteer Shortage Spans Area -- Tipton Residents Willing to Work - When They're in the County
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Tommy Gay, fire chief of the Garland Volunteer Fire Department in Tipton County, answers a question with a question.
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At least 1,000 volunteers reach out to evacuees; local fire crews get additional backup.
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Pioneering junior wardens have been paying a visit to their local fire station to learn some vital fire safety messages.   Thirty two primary school children have volunteered to be neighbourhood watch wardens to help combat crimes, including arson and nuisance fires, in Newtown in Stockton.
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TEMECULA ---- Local Red Cross officials have been answering questions and accepting donations this week from Southwest County residents who want to help the victims of the powerful earthquake and tsunamis that struck South Asia on Sunday.
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By Erin Sherbert, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif. Feb. 24--Far East County residents appear to want better fire protection services, but whether they are willing to pay for it is questionable, fire officials said.
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By Erin Sherbert, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif.  Feb. 10--BRENTWOOD -- Residents this week got their first glimpse of a proposal to expand fire protection services in far East County that includes doubling the number of firefighters and adding paramedics to each fire engine.
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By The Herald, Rock Hill, S.C.  Feb. 27--Thanks to Bob and Debbie Stuck, nearly 300 more acres in York County will remain undeveloped. We hope more land can be put aside through the incentive program used by the Stucks before it expires next year.
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By Frederick Melo, Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn.  Feb. 22--Fans of the great outdoors appear to really enjoy themselves in Dakota County. If only they'd swing by a little more often.
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By Marcie Young, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Jun. 26--More than 200 crew members Tuesday battled Burke County forest fires that have burned 1,100 acres in less than a week, authorities said.
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SHELTON, Conn. - A volunteer firefighter who was the first to arrive at the scene of a Shelton house fire used snow from the lawn to put out most of the flames.
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By JEFFREY KELLEY Times-Dispatch Staff Writer  Verizon Virginia's president can't sign up for his company's new TV service at his Chester4field County home yet. But resi4dents in other parts of the Rich4mond metro area can -- and many by the end of the month.
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Thousands of Douglas County residents at high risk for influenza may be unable to get flu shots this year because of a shortage of vaccine.
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By Erika Ray, The Blade, Toledo, Ohio  Dec. 10--When flames erupted from a barn stocked with bales of straw and hay east of Findlay in October, the Vanlue Volunteer Fire Department was notified of the emergency.   Six firefighters responded out of the 24 on its roster.
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A shortage of natural gas besets the state's most populous area. In rural outposts, energy costs spike.
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By Greg Kocher, The Lexington Herald-Leader, Ky.  Sep. 24--As floodwaters rose throughout Central Kentucky, firefighters had a busy night rescuing people from homes and stranded vehicles.   The Montgomery County Fire Department was especially stretched between 3:30 and 4 a.m.
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Bob Thompson makes a career out of something most of us would pay to do. "I'm from an outdoors family," the Columbia County man said.
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By Garth Stapley, The Modesto Bee, Calif.  Sep. 23--Tending to an ugly car wreck and a house fire on a late-summer day kept volunteer firefighter Chris Ott from working on a harvester at the family farm west of Modesto.