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The Daily Dispatch office will be closed Friday, July 4 in observance of Independence Day. The newsletter will return on Monday, July 7.
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| VIDEOS: A massive fire broke out Monday afternoon at a tire recycling facility—Reliable Tire Recycling—in the 3300 block of East State Highway 29, prompting full road closures and limited evacuations. |
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| VIDEO: After more than three decades dedicated to the fire service, Robin "Robby" Bergerson officially became Waco's new fire chief Monday afternoon during a swearing-in ceremony at Fire Station #6. |
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| PHOTOS: Fire crews in Henry County, Kentucky, battled a large commercial fire Monday afternoon. Officials said the fire broke out around 11 a.m. at Johnson and Company Flooring in Eminence. |
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| VIDEO: Prince George's County is getting a new fire chief, County Executive Aisha Braveboy announced at a news conference Monday. Thelmetria "Meme" Michaelides will take over as chief, Braveboy said. |
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| VIDEO: A man’s iPhone saved his life after he crashed his truck through a fence, impaling him, the Marion County Fire Rescue said. MCFR was dispatched to a rollover crash at the 6400 block of West Highway 329 in Reddick. |
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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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Featured Suppliers | ADS, Inc - Equipment & kitted solutions, procurement support, program management, & more ZOLL - Professional and automated external defibrillators Maxi-Metal - A dynamic and innovative Canadian company with 38 years of experience designing and manufacturing optimized intervention vehicles Tempest Technology - Supplies firefighting & search and rescue with the highest quality high-tech and reliable products for every circumstance |
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