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Credit Tulsa Fire Department TULSA, Okla. (AP) — An Oklahoma man has been arrested after being accused of trying to steal a firetruck. Tulsa police say they were called to a fire station around 3 a.m. on Saturday. After arriving at the scene, police found a group of Tulsa firefighters holding down a suspect. Firefighters told police that they found the man after hearing glass break and the sound of the ladder truck’s horn going off. Police allege the man had started the truck and tried driving through the fire station’s overhead doors before firefighters discovered what he was doing.
Tulsa Firefighters Install Smoke Alarms After 5th Fire Death This Year Tulsa Firefighters went door-to-door near 31st Street and 129th Avenue Tuesday, to make sure people had working smoke alarms. This is after a woman died from a fire in her home in that neighborhood last week. The Tulsa Fire Department said they aren't sure if this woman had a working smoke alarm. They said this was their fifth fatal fire this year, and they want it to be the last. "It's good that they're coming out because I didn't have none in my room at all, it's a big help to be honest," Aeja Cunningham said.
Woman In Hospital After Being Rescued From Fire At Tulsa Duplex A woman is in the hospital after firefighters say her home caught fire while she was inside. Chaz Floyd lives behind that home, and he said once he saw the smoke, he grabbed a water hose and started spraying. "I was just trying to minimize the damage that could have been caused by not doing anything," Floyd told News on 6. Floyd said he saw the flames and smoke coming from the back of his neighbor's house near 31st Street and South 129th East Avenue on Tuesday afternoon, and he knew he had to do something.
A fire department in southern Oklahoma is working to rescue a fire truck sent to New York City in 2002 to help with the aftermath of Sept. 11, 20o1. The historic truck is being sold on Facebook Marketplace, and the Calera Fire Department is doing everything it can to bring it home. Sign up for our Newsletters "It needs to be fixed up. Someone needs to do something with it to keep the memory of those guys alive, to keep the memory of 9/11 alive,"...