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• Tenn. FF-EMT treated tornado victims in makeshift living room triage center

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  Putnam County Firefighter-EMT Darrell Jennings aided at least 20 injured neighbors after a tornado swept through his community

• Photo of the Week: Nashville firefighters tend to flag outside damaged station

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  This week’s Photo of the Week captures Nashville firefighters untangling and folding the American flag at the damaged Holly Street station in East Nashville. Tornadoes ripped across Tennessee early...

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• At least 19 dead after tornadoes strike Tennessee

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  Emergency crews spent hours pulling survivors and bodies from wrecked buildings

• Firefighters, rescuers killed in avalanche in Turkey

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  Officials say 38 people, including 33 making rescue efforts after an earlier first avalanche, were killed

• Puerto Rico hit with nearly a dozen earthquakes, aftershocks

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  Local media reported that one person had died and another was injured in a home collapse in the aftermath of an initial 6.4 magnitude quake off the coast

• The CRR challenge: New generations require new approaches

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  Three examples underscore that we’re missing the mark with our current fire prevention strategies

• Fla. city first responders awarded $1.1M hurricane recovery grant

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  The grant is part of $25 million in funding for a state grant program to support communities affected by Hurricane Michael

• The silence is deafening: Why is no one speaking for the fire service?

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  Despite the fire service’s central role in disaster response, there is no unified voice sharing our stories

• Fifth death linked to storm that walloped Houston area

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  Authorities raised the storm's death toll to five, saying it is believed to have killed a 52-year-old Florida man who was found dead in his stranded pickup truck

• Crews assess Houston-area damage after Imelda leaves 4 dead

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  Emergency crews evacuated 87 residents from a nursing home in Porter as floodwaters began to seep into the home

• Social media videos capture Texas water rescues, flooded city

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  The Harris County Sheriff office shared images and a video of first responders rescuing people stranded in their cars

• Houston-area fire station flooded by Imelda storm

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  Firefighters returned to the fire station after conducting high-water rescues to find two generators and the septic system destroyed

• Water rescues begin as Imelda soaks east Texas

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  The Beaumont Police Department said that the 911 dispatch center has received requests for more than 250 high-water rescues and 270 evacuations

• 102 patients from health center evacuated after tornadoes hit SD city

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  An EF-2 tornado hit a behavioral health center at a Sioux Falls hospital, prompting the evacuations of 102 patients, including 39 adolescents

• NC firefighter injured when tree hits vehicle

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  A North Carolina firefighter was responding to a Hurricane Dorian emergency call when a tree fell and hit his car

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