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Bay live, from the cbs bay area studios, this is kpix5 news. This is where hundreds of people from the bay area should be right now. Maui. But they are not. Tonight, they are in oakland. Andria borba, what happened . Reporter well it started with mechanical problems, the plane circled for 90 minutes, landed in oakland and never left. For the passengers of flight 45, no one will take the aloha out of your sales quite like ending up 36 miles from where you started. Where are you . We are in oaklan...

Bay ow live, from the cbs bay area studios, this is kpix5 news. This is where hundreds of people from the bay area should be right now. Maui. But they are not. Tonight, they are in oakland. Andria borba, what happened . Reporter well it started with mechanical problems, the plane circled for 90 minutes, landed in oakland and never left. For the passengers of flight 45, no one will take the aloha out of your sales quite like ending up 36 miles from where you started. Where are you . We are in oak...

Canton, Ohio, Gets First-Ever African American Fire Chief 3264 Kwameshallahu Akbar Bennett became Canton, OHs first African American fire chief. (Image: Facebook- Canton City Fire Department) April 26, 2021 marked a historical day in Canton, Ohio, as Kwameshallahu Akbar Bennett became the first African American Fire Chief in the nearly 200-year history of the Canton City Fire Department. During the swearing in ceremony, Bennett thanked a host of colleagues and family members. “Today’s a cel...

CANTON – Kwameshallahu Akbar Bennett is poised to become the citys first Black fire chief. The historic event happens one year shy of the departments bicentennial. The fire department was established in 1822, the same year Canton was incorporated as a village, according to the Canton Professional Firefighters Association.  Bennett, 50, will be promoted from division chief and sworn in at 10 a.m. Monday in council chambers at City Hall. Bennett has served as interim fire chief since Chie...

Canton Fire Department to swear in 1st African American chief K. Akbar Bennett says he never set out to make history. The department has only had white chiefs in its first 200 years of existence. Author: January Keaton Updated: 12:03 AM EDT April 24, 2021 CANTON, Ohio — The Canton Fire Department has reached a major milestone, ushering in its first African American fire chief. "I cannot dismiss the historical context of it," current Division Chief K. Akbar Benn...

Canton Repository staff report CANTON  City firefighters are receiving the coronavirus vaccine. The Canton Fire Department on Tuesday released photos and a video of Canton Public Health administering the vaccine at Station 4. "Our medics expose themselves to a lot of COVID patients and were looking forward to this vaccine being a real answer to curing this deadly disease," Fire Chief Thomas Garra said in the video as he received the vaccine.