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The driver of a Chula Vista trash truck noticed his load had caught flames and called 911 dispatchers Thursday, who advised him to drive to a nearby fire station and drop the flaming load off, according to the Chula Vista Fire Department. Firefighters ran out of the Chula Vista Fire Department Station 7 and doused the pile of burning trash with water.
- PUB DATE: 6/23/2022 10:00:37 PM - SOURCE: KNSD-TV NBC 7 San Diego

Tuolumne County is bidding farewell to an influential local fire leader. The board of supervisors this week gave a Certificate of Appreciation to Andrew Murphy for his decades of work in the fire service, including the most recent four in Tuolumne County, serving as the Assistant Chief of the Tuolumne County Fire Department, along with same role with the Groveland Community Services District Fire Department and CAL Fire Tuolumne-Calaveras Unit.
- PUB DATE: 6/23/2022 11:11:59 AM - SOURCE: My Mother Lode

The Rocklin Fire Department celebrated the retirement of one of their volunteer firefighters after 60 years in the fire service. Volunteer Assistant Chief Lee “Smokey” Browning devoted 60 years of his life to the fire service and 54 of those years with the Rocklin Fire Department after joining it in 1968.
- PUB DATE: 6/24/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KTXL-TV FOX 40 Sacramento

VIDEO: Firefighters protected homes Thursday from a grass fire that cast smoke over the northern San Fernando Valley. Details about how the fire estimated at about 25 acres started in a field near the 5 and 405 freeways were not immediately available. The fire broke out in the 15000 block of West Lakeside Street on a day of above normal temperatures.
- PUB DATE: 6/23/2022 9:29:09 PM - SOURCE: KNBC-TV NBC 4 Los Angeles

The Clovis Police and Fire Departments participate in the Central California Blood Center’s Battle of the Badges Blood Drive. Typically an annual event, the Battle of the Badges was canceled during the past two years because of the pandemic. The event held during the month of June, has a goal of using law enforcement to help bring more people to make blood donations in hopes of saving someone’s life that may need it.
- PUB DATE: 6/23/2022 11:39:23 AM - SOURCE: Clovis Roundup

Two people were injured in a brush fire burning on the Pleasanton Ridge Thursday afternoon, firefighters said. Flames were first reported at the 4500 block of River Rock Hill Road around 2 p.m. Evacuation orders are in place for anyone in the area of Golden Eagle, police said. The Alameda County Fire Department also ordered mandatory evacuations for residents in the area of Kilkare Road in Sunol.
- PUB DATE: 6/23/2022 4:32:24 PM - SOURCE: KNTV NBC 11 San Jose

With a grant, Frank Siller leads his organization to fill a multimillion-dollar gap in financing at least 1,700 housing units

Alicia A. Monahan served with Chesterfield County Fire and EMS and the Virginia Search and Rescue Dog Association

This week's photo showcases Joplin's community celebration of its new ladder truck

The patients were participating in a reality TV show called “Bad Girls Gone God" when some suffered heat-related illness

The city unanimously passed an ordinance to extend LODD benefits to suicide deaths

The Angel Fire employee who brought the complaint also was found to be at fault and resigned