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Surprise, AZ SVI Type VI Wildland Unit

Surprise, AZ SVI Type VI Wildland Unit

A new wildland rig for Surprise   SVIweb - When spec'ing its new SVI-built Type 6 Wildland Unit, the Surprise, AZ Fire-Medical Department chose a Dodge Ram 5500 4x4 Crew Cab, powered by a 6.7L I6 Cummins Turbo Diesel. This brush truck is equipped with a Waterous...

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Playing with Fire

Playing with Fire

Behind the scenes with smokejumpers     U.S. Forest Service - A personal behind the scenes look at what Smokejumpers encounter from the locker room to a live fire on the forest ground. https://youtu.be/A6QfMdKCkzE

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Wildfire Causes Evacuations in Norco, California

Wildfire Causes Evacuations in Norco, California

Some 1,500 people affected     NORCO, Calif. (AP) — A wind-driven wildfire triggered evacuations and briefly threatened hundreds of homes Tuesday in an equestrian community in the inland region of Southern California, where little rain has fallen this...

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Evacuations Lifted in California Riverbottom Fire

Evacuations Lifted in California Riverbottom Fire

Riverbottom Fire full containment expected later Friday     RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) — Evacuations were lifted after crews got a handle on a smoky wildfire that briefly burned near homes along a dry Southern California riverbed on Thursday. Flames broke out in...

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California Firefighters Return from Australia

California Firefighters Return from Australia

Bodies of two in tanker crash sent home     By STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — As the wildland firefighters, fresh off a long flight from Australia, strode into a Los Angeles fire station Wednesday morning, Marvin Schober got his GoPro...

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Americans Killed in Aerial Tanker Crash in Australia

Americans Killed in Aerial Tanker Crash in Australia

Crew of three dead while battling wildfire     By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press SYDNEY (AP) — Three American crew members died Thursday when a C-130 Hercules aerial water tanker crashed while battling wildfires in southeastern Australia, officials said. New...

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