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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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| An ambulance on the way to the hospital needed its own ambulance called after police said a driver hit them Monday morning in west Houston. |
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| VIDEO: San Antonio firefighters battled a massive fire that spread to multiple homes on the west side early Monday. |
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| PHOTOS: Heavy flames were seen shooting out of a large commercial building in Houston’s East End early Monday morning. |
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| VIDEOS/PHOTOS: A fire reignited at a large, three-story, mansion-style home Tuesday morning, in Washington, D.C., just hours after crews extinguished a previous fire Monday night, according to the D.C. Fire and EMS Department. |
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| VIDEO: Using AI and new technology, Arizona State University students are creating 3D photos and videos that make you feel like you’re walking in the middle of wildfire aftermath. |
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| VIDEO/PHOTOS: Statistics from the U.S. Fire Administration show that approximately 100 firefighters die by suicide each year. While some platforms are censoring the word suicide because of the stigma it carries, families of those who have taken their own lives are left to deal with the aftermath -- and some want suicide to be talked about more, not less |
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| PHOTOS: Nonstop severe weather that spawned dozens of tornadoes and killed 28 people in recent days is in its final stretch Tuesday, but millions in the eastern half of the United States are still in the path of dangerous storms. |
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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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