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Summit Fire & EMS is breaking ground today on a long-awaited fire station in north Silverthorne. The new fire station comes with space for two fire engines, six round-the-clock firefighters, a gym, a kitchen and a fire tower. Contractor Hyder Construction is building the station on a plot of town property near the northern entrance

A dog in Greenwood became a hero Tuesday morning when they woke their family during a house fire, according to the Lee's Summit Fire Department.

A dog in Greenwood became a hero Tuesday morning when they woke their family during a house fire, according to the Lee's Summit Fire Department.

On Tuesday, Feb. 27, Summit Fire & EMS was awarded reaccreditation from the Commission on Fire Accreditation International based on the department’s efforts.  Summit Fire & EMS is one of more than 300 agencies to...

Ice fishing is a popular winter activity on the Dillon Reservoir. But rather than a rod and lure, the crew that carved a hole in the ice Monday, Feb. 12, had hundreds of feet of...

As blizzard-like conditions met holiday travel last weekend, Summit Fire & EMS responded to a call Saturday, Jan. 13, for a driver who ended up colliding with a semitractor-trailer on Interstate 70. Battalion Chief Lou...

Earlier this month, a child who suffered a seizure at just 15-months-old was reunited with the Summit Fire & EMS crew that helped stabilize him and rush him to the hospital during the medical emergency...

KANSAS CITY—One person was injured in a Kansas City-area explosion and fire.Just before 4:30p.m. Tuesday, fire crews  responded to a fi

A man welding a leak in a fuel tank was injured when he caught on fire after the tank exploded inside a Lee’s Summit barn, fire officials said.

A bystander rescued a dog who fell through a thin sheet of ice that had formed on a Copper Mountain golf course pond on Thursday, Nov. 16, according to Summit Fire & EMS. While it...