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Paterson Fire Department Battalion Chief Kenneth Kiefer was recently recognized with two awards for saving a man trapped inside a burning car.

Fire officials say they believe the fire started in the kitchen of a mobile home.

Spontaneous combustion causes apartment fire     HILLSBORO, Oregon (KPTV) — Firefighters say spontaneous combustion is responsible for a fire at an apartment complex in Hillsboro that started Tuesday morning. At 10:30 a.m. fire crews got a report to an automatic commercial fire alarm at 305 Southeast Edgeway Drive in the Wyndhaven Apartment complex. More calls from the complex reported building alarms activated and smoke was coming from the third and fourth floor of the building. Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue Engine 64 arrived first and made entry into the building. Firefighters were a...

The Berkshire Eagle Polidoro, who joined the department in 1988, retired in 2017, after contracting amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, which is a progressive nervous system disease. He is survived by his wife, three children and three stepchildren. “I’ve said this all along: Deputy Polidoro was a firefighter’s firefighter,” Sammons said. “He was a guy you would look up to. His dedication to the job was 150 percent every day. “It’s kind of a hard day for us here,” he said. In a post on the Pittsfield Fire Department’s Facebook page, the Pittsfie...