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    A 91-year-old’s $500,000 donation has saved a tiny Missouri volunteer fire company from certain doom. In April, Sam Sloan decided to make good on a promise he made to himself decades ago when he got out of the cattle and seed processing business: donate to the Calhoun Volunteer Fire Department. “They need the money once I had the money. I’d been saving money for a long time,” Sloan said Thursday. Sloan had an idea of the how cash-strapped the fire company was because he lives about 2 miles...

  • Albuquerque Fire Rescue says outside fire response program was a success

    ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – The Albuquerque Fire Rescue says a pilot program to respond to outdoor fires this winter was a success. The department began deploying a brush truck late last year patrolling the city to find and contain fires that break out outside of a building. AFR says out of the 3,700 outside fires from []

  • Prisoner rescued from jail cell fire in Drenthe

    One prisoner was injured after a fire broke out in a jail cell at the Veenhuizen detention facility in Drenthe, local media reported. The injured person was rescued from the fire in their own cell in the Norgerhaven wing, ANP reported.The victim was treated at the scene by paramedics, according to RTV Drenthe. The prisoner was in their own cell at the time, and did not share the unit with another. The incident happened at about 6:15 a.m. on Thursday.