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Dramatic footage captures what it’s like for a firefighter responding to an apartment fire

Intense body-worn camera footage released by the Wichita Fire Department in Wichita, Kansas on September 10 shows us what it’s like as a firefighter trying to put out a fire that’s consumed an apartment building. The apartment fire on South Emporia Avenue began some four days earlier, on the morning of September 6. No deaths …

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Seattle crane collapse leaves 4 dead, 3 hurt, 6 cars damaged: fire department

The collapse of a construction crane in downtown Seattle on Saturday has left four people dead, four people hurt and six cars pinned under it. Two of the people who died were crane operators, said Fire Chief Harold Scoggins. Two others who died were in separate vehicles. Three of the dead were males, one was …

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