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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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| Authorities are trying to find out what started a fire at a northwest Harris County business overnight Wednesday, where a firefighter had to be hospitalized. |
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| VIDEO: Beaumont firefighters are now being trained on a new telehealth tool aimed at reducing unnecessary hospital visits and better managing non-emergency calls. |
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| VIDEOS: At Needmore Point in Sabine County, some firefighters in training learned how to properly perform a controlled burn, a skill they say is very important. |
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| Firefighters and other first responders rescued a driver after a dump truck crashed into a residence in Woodbury Heights, New Jersey. |
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| PHOTOS: Steve Dorsey, 56, was diagnosed in February with Stage 4 esophageal cancer that spread to his lymph nodes and liver. He's on medical leave undergoing chemotherapy in the hopes of shrinking his tumors. |
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| To help keep communities and firefighters safer, FEMA will award SAFER funding directly to fire departments and volunteer firefighter interest organizations to help communities meet industry minimum standards, attain 24-hour staffing, and more. |
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| VIDEO: The Minnesota Air Rescue Team, or MART, is on standby this week to help injured firefighters battling wildfires up north. |
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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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