| Daily News for America's Fire Service |
| The Daily Dispatch office will be closed Monday, May 26 in observance of Memorial Day. The newsletter will return on Tuesday, May 27. |
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| Firefighters say the home was fully engulfed before it collapsed. The cause of the fire is under investigation, and fire crews have deemed the incident suspicious. |
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| PHOTO: The B Shift crew at Engine House 28, a St. Louis fire station in the Fountain Park neighborhood, knew severe weather was a possibility when the firefighters got to work at 8 a.m. last Friday. |
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| VIDEO: A small plane crashed into a San Diego neighborhood early Thursday, killing multiple people believed to be passengers and damaging nearly a dozen homes and several more vehicles. |
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| The recent jet plane crash into San Diego's Murphy Canyon neighborhood left at least two homes destroyed and several more damaged, according to the Navy. In the aftermath, KPBS examined the history of plane crashes in San Diego's residential neighborhoods. |
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| Patients who find themselves racing to a hospital in the back of an ambulance may soon be able to tell their drivers which hospital to go to, under a proposal pitched before the Broward County Commission. |
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| COOPERATIVE PURCHASING | | Sourcewell Cooperative Purchasing - Fire chiefs across North America turn to cooperative purchasing to simplify procurement and stretch their budgets further. As the largest government-based cooperative purchasing organization on the continent, Sourcewell serves as the exclusive group purchasing partner of the Western Fire Chiefs Association. With Sourcewell, departments gain access to a wide range of competitively awarded contracts—helping leaders purchase the equipment and services they need quickly. Get fire apparatus, PPE, training, tech, and more—faster than traditional procurement processes.
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More than 50,000 public agencies across the U.S. and Canada rely on Sourcewell to simplify purchasing. Buy faster, equip sooner, and skip the hassle of the traditional procurement process with competitively awarded supplier contracts. Fire-Rescue | EMS |
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