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Foreclosures challenge fire departments

Foreclosures challenge fire departments

Fire departments are already feeling the effect of spiraling foreclosures, with lower tax revenues causing shrinking budgets. But as more people lose their homes, a host of even more direct challenges impact firefighters, such as fires in abandoned properties.  ...Full Story
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Top Stories for Friday, November 21, 2008
Philadelphia fire department plan causes worry 2 Philadelphia firefighters hurt as roof collapses Calif. town builds fire break after blazes NM 911 bogged down by non-emergency calls Disabled man dies in Ill. fire SUV hits, severely damages Mass. pumper 27 horses killed in blaze at western Ky. stable Pa. man, 82, survives 32 hours in freezing woods 13-year firefighter collapses, dies in Ill. Mass. firefighter hurt in fall through floor
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Fire Chief Shot and Killed Gloucester County (NJ) LODD Past Mich. fire chief suffers fatal heart attack Ill. firefighter dies in sleep after coal fire incident
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Steve Kline - 11/19/2008 - [Morris, Illinois] Carol Irene Taylor - 11/18/2008 - [Goldsboro, North Carolina] Michael Snowman - 11/18/2008 - [Hartland, Maine]

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El Cajon Fire Department, 11/21/2008 [El Cajon, CA]
3-alarm fire destroys Calif. home
Jefferson Fire Dist. , 11/18/2008 [Jefferson , OR]
Power pole severed in RTA
Salem Fire Deptartment, 11/18/2008 [Salem, OR]
Dumpster fire speads to building
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11/21/2008
Philadelphia fire department plan causes worry
2 Philadelphia firefighters hurt as roof collapses
Calif. town builds fire break after blazes
11/20/2008
NM 911 bogged down by non-emergency calls
Disabled man dies in Ill. fire
SUV hits, severely damages Mass. pumper
27 horses killed in blaze at western Ky. stable
Pa. man, 82, survives 32 hours in freezing woods
11/19/2008
13-year firefighter collapses, dies in Ill.
Mass. firefighter hurt in fall through floor
Fire damages landmark La. theater
Foreclosures challenge fire departments
Wis. union president out over racial slur
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