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Enjoy the post-holiday spoils by sharing your leftovers with the rest of the department with some of our favorite after-Thanksgiving recipes. So stop licking your lips and get cooking! Sources: Food Network, Epicurious, About.com Recipe: Turkey Barbecue → [page] Turkey Barbecue Ingredients: Instructions: • 16 oz canned tomatoes; cut up • 6 oz tomato paste • 1 tsp Powdered mustard • ...

HAVERHILL — It's only a little more than half of what the city asked for, but it's enough to immediately hire three firefighters and keep the Bradford fire station open for at least a few months and "probably" until the end of the fiscal year on June 30. Haverhill is to receive $262,645 in federal stimulus money for the firefighter hires ...

PHILADELPHIA — Fire investigators in Philadelphia say a candle caused a weekend apartment fire that injured nearly 21 people, including four firefighters. Officials said Monday that three of the injured residents are in critical condition. Some residents had jumped from the building to escape the flames after the fire broke out around 4:30 a.m. Sunday. [widget:featured_career_firefighter] Fire Commissioner Lloyd Ayers says ...

WACO, TX - The son of a Waco firefighter, who reportedly told officers, “I had to do it,” was arrested Monday on murder and arson charges in his father’s shooting death and the destruction of his Downsville home. McLennan County sheriff’s deputies transferred 21-year-old Ramonell Stephens on Monday from the burn unit at Parkland Hospital in Dallas to the McLennan County ...

UK - A teenager accused of murdering his girlfriend by dousing her in petrol and setting it alight told police that he tried to rescue her from the blaze. Stewart Blackburn, 18, told officers he "fell down crying" as he tried to pour water over Jessica McCagh. He also recalled hearing the 17-year-old girl screaming after the bed she was in ...

FAIR HAVEN -- The fire chief who jumped off the Oceanic Bridge Sunday night took the plunge after crashing his chief's car into a utility pole in Rumson. It took rescuers from about 16 agencies to pluck Fair Haven Fire Chief Shaun Foley from the chilly Navesink River Sunday night. Authorities said the 27-year-old was driving his chief's car and struck ...

DALLAS — A fire at a multistory apartment complex under construction in Dallas left at least seven firefighters hurt. Fire crews Tuesday remained at the scene of the burning, unoccupied units. [widget:news__scholarships_and_videos] Dallas Fire-Rescue spokesman Jason Evans confirms seven firefighters suffered non-life threatening injuries, with several struck by debris. Evans says wind blowing through the complex, in a fire reported shortly ...

Sunday, November 22, 2009 - Chief Harry Moore of the Duquesne (PA) EMS collapsed from a heart attack at the scene of a run this evening and has died in the Line of Duty. The initial run was for a serious crash around 1930 hours. Three cars were involved in the crash that injured at least one person severely. The drivers were entrapped inside their ...

Monday, November 23, 2009 - Up to 47 people received in Needham, including 15 Needham Firefighters, received a second dose of the seasonal flu shot instead of the H1N1 vaccine last week due to an apparent label mix-up, town administrators learned on Nov. 23. Public health nurses gave the flu shots to firefighters and other first responders, along with several residents, late ...

MOBILE, Alabama - The Mobile Police Department is conducting an internal investigation after at least one officer fired shots at a runaway ambulance during a bizarre chase through downtown Mobile. Brent Becker, a Mobile firefighter, responded to a call on Forrest Circle around 4:30 Saturday morning. While Becker and his partner were inside a house tending to a patient, a woman ...

A California man was sentenced to death on Friday for setting a hillside inferno in 2006 that killed five USFF firefighters. The penalty had been recommended by the jury that convicted the man, Raymond L. Oyler, 38, of murder and arson in March. In imposing the sentence, Judge W. Charles Morgan of Superior Court in Riverside County said Mr. Oyler ...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) -- An Australian man who tried to save his dog from a kangaroo is hospitalized northeast of Melbourne after the animal turned on him. Chris Rickard says he was walking the dog near a dam Sunday morning when they surprised a sleeping kangaroo. The dog chased the animal into the water but the roo then turned and pinned ...

SUNLAND - Three people from Riverside, including a 14-year-old boy, died in a fiery early-morning crash Sunday when their sport utility vehicle slammed into a lettuce-loaded big rig that was stopped on the shoulder of the Foothill (210) Freeway. The 41-year-old male SUV driver, a 40-year-old female passenger and a teenager in the backseat died in the vehicle after it burst ...

VINCENNES, Ind. — Firefighters have found one body and rescued several people from a fire at a southwestern Indiana motel. The Vincennes Fire Department says two people suffering from smoke inhalation were taken to a hospital after the fire early Monday at a Quality Inn. One police officer suffered a hand injury. [widget:groups_you_may_be_interested_in] Firefighters found heavy fire and smoke when they ...

A rambunctious dog caused a scene when it leaped into the Hudson River Sunday - but it was only living up to its name. Jerry Velez, 30, was walking Cain, a white pit bull mix along the Hudson River at W. 14th St. yesterday when he let the dog off its leash. Bad move. "I let the dog off the leash ...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - A former Marine was charged Friday with six counts of first-degree murder in the shooting deaths of four people whose bodies were found in a burning home, including a prostitute featured on the HBO reality series "Cathouse." David Allen Tyner, 28, of Locust Grove, is accused of shooting, stabbing and then burning the bodies of Brooke Phillips, ...

NEW YORK (AP) - A teenager killed in a confrontation with New York City police over the weekend was shot 11 times, the medical examiner's office said Sunday. Dashawn Vasconcellos, 18, died of gunshot wounds to the torso, neck and extremities, medical examiner spokeswoman Ellen Borakove said. Police fired a total of 14 times, chief NYPD spokesman Paul J. Browne said. ...

Sunday, November 22, 2009 - Four firefighters were injured in a Sunday morning fire in the California community. Three of the firefighters were hospitalized. The fire broke out at about 5:11 a.m. at a house near the Lunken Airport. Neighbors used a ladder to help the homeowners off the roof of a porch before firefighters arrived.

Sunday, November 22, 2009 - Three Wheat Ridge firefighters narrowly escaped unharmed when a room flashed Saturday evening. The Wheat Ridge Fire Department received the run at 1730 about smoke at a house. Firefighters were searching the bedroom and they experienced a flashover in that room. They called a mayday and were initially trapped in that room. Firefighters had to jump out of ...

Sunday, November 22, 2009 - Chief Harry Moore of the Duquesne (PA) EMS collapsed from a heart attack at the scene of a run this evening and has died in the Line of Duty. The initial run was for a serious crash around 1930 hours. Three cars were involved in the crash that injured at least one person severely. The drivers were entrapped inside their ...