| Daily News for America's Fire Service |
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| VIDEO: The fire departments of Champaign, Mahomet, and Urbana celebrated the graduation of their first class from the Champaign Regional Fire Academy. |
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| VIDEO: Fire alarms went off at Heartland Community College Friday morning, but it was an exercise for firefighters in Normal. A fire drill was at the campus electric vehicle lab to simulate what it would be like if a lithium battery caught on fire. |
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| VIDEO: Oswego Fire Protection District officials said, around 10:30 a.m., firefighters responded to a construction equipment accident at Wolf Road and Fifth Street. |
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| PHOTOS: Several residents were forced to evacuate Sunday night after a two-alarm fire broke out at a Northeast Side apartment complex. Crews were able to bring the fire under control in about 35 minutes. |
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| VIDEO: Nearly two dozen people were rescued after a boat burst into flames in the Bronx. It happened just after 8 p.m. Saturday near the east end of Hart Island as Marine 4, an FDNY boat, was doing routine patrols in the Long Island Sound and Eastchester Bay. |
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| VIDEO: Gov. Kim Reynolds signed a bill into law Friday morning to expand cancer coverage for first responders in Iowa. Previously, state law only covered 14 types of cancers. House File 969 expands the definition to include coverage for all other cancers. |
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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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