FIRE
Maple brothers get prison time for arson plot
By Associated Press , November 20, 2009
Duluth to ask council to settle Peterson Arena lawsuit
The city of Duluth appears ready to settle a lawsuit it filed against the Duluth Amateur Hockey Association after the Peterson Ice Arena burned down five years ago.By News Tribune , November 19, 2009
No one injured in explosion at Minnesota grain elevator
Firefighters were dispatched to a report of a vaporizer explosion Tuesday night at the elevator in Lake Wilson.By Justine Wettschreck , November 18, 2009
Duluth City Council members select ambulance task force
The Duluth City Council will vote Monday on appointing a five-member task force to study whether the Fire Department should take over ambulance services.By Brandon Stahl , November 18, 2009
Cloquet fire victim charged with assault
Michael Lee King, formerly of the Maplewood Apartments in Cloquet, was arrested Saturday at the AmericInn Hotel after police received reports of screaming and crying coming from one of the rooms.By Lisa Baumann , November 17, 2009
Council members select ambulance task force
Three councilors narrowed down the applicants from 17 Monday night after interviewing each during a committee meeting. Jeff Anderson, who helped select the candidates and proposed the study, said the committee was looking for candidates who were for and against the takeover of ambulance services.
By Brandon Stahl , November 17, 2009
Wisconsin murder suspect's body identified
Arthur A. Garcia, 31, of Stone Lake was found in the ruins of a mobile home fire Nov. 1 in Washburn County near Spooner. Garcia apparently shot himself and then was incinerated on a pile of burning tires, according to the Sawyer County Sheriff's Department.November 16, 2009
Reader's view: Despite Stauber’s comment, EMTs and firefighters work well together
I wonder whether Gold Cross Ambulance paramedics cringed a bit after reading the Oct. 20 News Tribune article “Who should provide ambulance services?”By Erik Roadfeldt , November 15, 2009
Reader's view: Stauber owes firefighters, public an apology for insensitive comment
I read the letters and commentaries in the Oct. 25 Sunday Opinion section regarding racial slurs against Iraqi students at the College of St. Scholastica. I agreed; some online comments got out of line.By CHARLES SWANSTROM , November 15, 2009
Reader's view: City ambulance service would free firefighters from unnecessary calls
Duluth needs ambulance service! In June 1966, Duluth didn’t have enough ambulances to bring the injured from a gas explosion and fire on 24th Avenue West.By VIRGINIA R. LARSON , November 15, 2009
Our view: Duluth in the ambulance business? Why are we even talking about this, if not for politics?
The debate has all the markings of a political bombshell, one of those
stories lobbed a few days before an election to knock the wheels off a rival campaign. Just before the Nov. 3 vote, tired questions were resurrected: Should the Duluth Fire Department take over ambulatory services now being provided by the private, nonprofit Gold Cross Ambulance? And: Couldn’t firefighters do a better job?
November 15, 2009
Wisconsin hunters reminded of firewood restrictions 
With the opening of Wisconsin’s fall deer hunt two weeks away, hunters are being reminded of restrictions on the movement of firewood from counties with infestations of a tree-eating beetle.
By Associated Press , November 13, 2009
Fire puts three out of West Duluth home
No one was injured, and two dogs also emerged from the home unharmed.
November 12, 2009
Officials: Hayward vehicle fire death was accidental
Authorities believe Darwin J. Drake had been living out of a 1992 Chevrolet Suburban that was parked on property he owned in Hayward.
November 12, 2009
Hwy. 61 landmark Whispering Pines Motel burns
The heart of the historic Whispering Pines Motel complex north of Silver Bay was badly damaged by fire Wednesday morning as firefighters from Silver Bay, Finland, Two Harbors and Schroeder responded just before 9 a.m. The fire was extinguished by 10:30 a.m.
By Matt Suoja , November 12, 2009
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