December 30, 2007 – 7:22 am
Domestic terrorism incident put out with fire extinguisher LINK
Holiday decorations fire put out with fire extinguisher LINK
Vandals attack church with fire extinguishers in Knoxville LINK
Church fire extinguished with fire extinguisher in Portland OR LINK
Vandals shoot off 7 fire extinguishers at a park building in Green Bay LINK
Customer puts out fire at Anderson SC Applebee's LINK
Wal-Mart [...]
This is starting to look like a pattern.
MiddleTown Ohio:
According to the Middletown Division of Police, the teen walked into the electronics department at the Towne Boulevard WalMart just before 9:15 a.m. Friday and lit his jacket on fire.
Reports said the man, from the 2000 block of Arlington Avenue, used a lighter and tissues stuffed in [...]
January 19, 2007 – 7:52 pm
A stove fire at a Rolling Meadows restaurant caused $13,000 in damages Sunday afternoon.
Rolling Meadows fire department officials responded to Chipotle Mexican Grill, 2100 Golf Road, at 2:11 p.m. Sunday, Rolling Meadows fire department battalion chief Tom Callard said.
The fire burned through a gas line and was put out with a fire extinguisher, he said.
The [...]
January 15, 2007 – 8:17 pm
From what could have been a very costly fire, a customer and a fire extinguisher made all the difference:
The Wal-Mart Supercenter store near Chesapeake Square Mall was evacuated Sunday after a fire broke out in the women’s clothing section. No one was hurt and the fire was quickly extinguished, said Capt. Steve Johnson, a Fire [...]
October 11, 2006 – 3:00 pm
Bellingham, WA:
Comcast technician Jeff Edmondson was getting off Interstate 5 at Sunset Drive when he saw a collision of three cars, one of which had smoke coming out from under its hood. He said people were standing around the crash, but none of them had a fire extinguisher. As the car smoked, [...]
September 12, 2006 – 9:40 pm
Take if from one who knows, nothing like a few good Samaritans with fire extinguishers when you need them!
Fortunately, no children were on board, and if it wasn't for some good Samaritans who were nearby, the driver may have been killed. Police said the bus driver was burned because her arms and her [...]
September 5, 2006 – 2:03 pm
A Pittsfield MA. Friendly's Ice Cream restaurant was saved from fire from both a range-hood system and portable extinguishers.
A fire that started in a kitchen area damaged Friendly's Restaurant at 835 Dalton Ave. yesterday, Deputy Fire Chief Robert Czerwinski said.
The blaze began at 12:36 p.m. in the restaurant's kitchen and grill area, possibly [...]
August 28, 2006 – 11:02 am
Heroic story from Scottland:
The owners of a luxury hotel tackled a blaze after it was set alight yesterday evening while guests dined yards away.
The couple, who opened the hotel in 1992, raced to the hotel and began fighting the fire in a desperate bid to prevent their business going up in flames. Mr Colquhoun said: [...]
August 22, 2006 – 5:02 pm
"Home of the brave!" Does a headline get better than that? I don't think so. Neither does Chicago's Herald News in telling the story of a group of men who saved several teens from a car fire.
The Bradley truck driver worked late and would have usually been home before 8:45 p.m., the time that night [...]
