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• The ‘outside chief’: 4 more factors to consider before taking the top job in a new area

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  Part 2 – Ask key questions about training and certifications, mutual aid, relationship-building and your own family

• Calif. mutual aid system dispatches FF-EMTs, medics to help hospitals with COVID-19 patients

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  Fire officials say the call to assist hospitals is the first time the system has been used for something other than a major wildfire

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• W.Va. National Guard airman dies battling structure fire

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  The airman with the 167th Airlift Wing Fire Department was fatally injured Sunday while responding to a request for mutual aid

• NJ firefighter taken to hospital after 4-alarm blaze

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  One firefighter was struck by falling debris and several other sustained minor injuries while battling the blaze

• NH FD, EMS roll out new CAD system aimed at reducing response times

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  The new computer-aided dispatch system allows for immediate automated selection of the closest available fire and EMS unit for all emergency calls

• Video: Texas first responders rescue boy, 4, stuck in well for 6 hours

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  Starr County Sheriff Rene Fuentes credited more than two-dozen entities with assisting in the harrowing rescue effort

• Video: Argument between DC, county FFs at scene under investigation

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  Helmet camera video shows a Bladensburg (Prince George's County) volunteer firefighter cursing at a D.C. firefighter after an engine was parked on a hose line

• Rapid Response: Coordination is key on incidents literally spanning states

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  Ohio and Kentucky fire departments work in a unified command to manage a fire and hazmat incident on the Brent Spence Bridge connecting the states

• 2 Long Island FFs injured in explosion, multi-home fire

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  The Valley Stream (N.Y.) Fire Department firefighters were injured when a chimney collapsed onto them

• NJ fire department shuts down after COVID-19 exposure

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  The Washington Township Fire Department will shut down immediately as contact tracing is conducted

• 3 NY FFs hurt in 5-alarm apartment building fire

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  About 200 firefighters responded to the blaze at the three-story building

• 5 Maine FFs hurt at 'all-hands' house fire

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  The five Yarmouth firefighters suffered heat exhaustion and lacerations

• LODD: Texas assistant fire chief dies in vehicle rollover

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  Ringgold Volunteer Fire Department Assistant Chief Duncan Henderson, 65, was on his way to assist at a grass fire when his vehicle overturned

• Mass. unions criticize reliance on mutual aid amid funding dispute

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  The Fairhaven firefighters' union spoke out against staffing cuts in the neighboring city of New Bedford

• Video: Mutual aid assists FF with marriage proposal

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  Lisbon Firefighter Justin Sayre surprised his girlfriend with help from another local fire department and a smoke machine

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