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2009

  • 2-16-09~©Ketchikan Now A Certified Reverse 911 Site
  • 3-31-09~©Smoldering Fire Damages Residence
  • 4-8-09~©NTVFD Evaluated
  • 7-9-09~©Tongass Towers: Sprinkler System Saves
  • 7-17-09~©Improper disposal causes fire
  • 7-31-2009~©Cause of fire still  under  investigation
  • 10-5-09~©Grueling Firefighter-1 Training Underway
  • 10-21-09~©Lessons For The Young: Field Trip To Fire Station #2
  • 10-29-09~©Change Your Clocks, Check Your Smoke alarms


  
2008

  • 1-7-08~©As Firefighters & EMT’s
  • 1-7-08~©Alaska ship & drydock fire
  • 1-23-08~©Plane lands safely ~ KFD standing by
  • 6-16-08~©Eight puppies rescued from burning hom
  • 6-23-08~©Fire damage to Fairview Ave home significant
  • 7-2-08~©Fireworks Have Become a Way to Celebrate During the July 4th Holidays
  • 10-18-08~©KFD Member Honored by Fire Service
  •  10-31-08©Change Your Clock, Check Smoke Alarms
  • 11-24-08©Ketchikan Fire Stoppers
  • 11-26-08©Fire Safety For The Holidays
  • 12-09-08©Firefighters Receive Medals Of Valor
  • 12-22-08©Smoke detectors Save Ketchikan Residents


  
2007

  • 1-19-07~©Car goes over embankment
  • 5-31-07~©Consolidated dispatch operations are announced
  • 6-11-07~©KFD welcomes Diamond Princess
  • 6-12-07~©Fire claims Roosevelt Drive home
  • 10-24-07~©October is Fire Safety Month
  • 12-10-07~©Fire Safety Advice For The Holidays
  • 12-11-07~©Residential Fire Sprinkler Systems


   
2006

  • 1-26-06~©Jet crashes, pilot is killed
  • 1-26-06~©KFD Fire Marshal position filled
  • 1-27-06~©Wreckage of jet removed from crash site
  • 1-28-06~©Follow up: pilot family contact info
  • 2-6-06~©NTSB files report
  • 3-8-06~©Never Too Young To Learn Life-Saving Lessons
  • 4-18-06~©Ketchikan Home Lost In Easter Fire
  • 4-27-06~©KFD’s First Career Female Firefighter
  • 5-9-06~©Fire Dept & Rapid Access
  • 6-23-06~©Cause of house fire to be determined
  • 7-10-06~©Ketchikan FD’s honored by 24th Alaska State Legislature
  • 9-27-06~©October Evacuation Exercises Planned for Ketchikan
  • 10-2-06~©No One Injured In Home Fire


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    2005

  • 1-5-05~©Burning home difficult to access
  • 1-17-05~©Final Testing
  • 1-18-05~©Trainng KFD’s Firefighters
  • 3-4-05~©Four firefighters injured at house fire
  • 5-16-05~©Fire pumper displayed at Museum
  • 5-17-05~©EMT Classes Teach Local Volunteers
  • 6-6-05~©Fire Marshal Warns of High Fire Risk
  • 6-10-05~©Firefighters Battle With Brush Fire
  • 6-19-05~©Eagle Scout project helps local FD’s
  • 6-28-05~©Boat fire on the Suntoy
  • 7-19-05~©August training exercise joins local, state, & federal agencies
  • 8-17-05~©Alaska Shield/ Northern Edge Drills
  • 8-19-05~©Akaska Shield/ Northern Edge Concludes
  • 9-3-05~©Kruzer’s Include KFD’s 1925 Seagrave
  • 9-7-05~KFD To Assist Hurricane Relief Efforts
  • 9-12-05~Tribute: 9-11-01


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    2004

  • 1-15-04~©KFD’s Volunteer Legacy From Buckets...
  • 1-15-04~New Super Chief Position For Public Safety
  • 1-25-04~Motor Home Fire
  • 3-4-04~Foam Drill & Tanker Operations
  • 3-19-04~Park Avenue Fire
  • 5-7-04~©KFD Greets the Diamond Princess
  • 6-23-04~Cabin Cruiser Fire
  • 7-22-04~© Dock Fire on Front Street
  • 9-6-04~©Downtown Fire
  • 9-12-04~©KFD Remembers
  • 10-1-04~Alaska’s Public Fire Educator Named
  • 10-9-04~©Fire Prevention Message
  • 11-30-04~©Sitka FD FF/EMT death

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    2003

  • 1-6-03~©After The Call
  • 4-1-03~©Firefighters receive airport training
  • 5-20-03~©Firefighters Receive Certification Training
  • 6-??-03~Firefighter I Certification Training
  • 6-18-03~©North Tongass House Lost To Fire
  • 6-25-03~©Fill The Boot
  • 7-25-2003~©Smoke alarms Prevent Catastrophic Fire
  • 8-1-03~Deermount Street Home Destroyed
  • 8-12-03~Firefighter II Certification Training
  • 8-26-03~Propane Tank Fire Training
  • 9-13-03~©Boat Fire
  • 10-2-03~©Fire Prevention Month: free smoke alarms
  • 11-20-03~©Fire Contained by Homeowners

...just another day at the office!

Total Fire Safety System In The Home:
 Home Fire Sprinklers 

The best protection from a home fire is to make sure
a fire never starts. When there is a fire, the best
protection is a total system of safety: 1) EARLY
WARNING from installed and maintained smoke
alarms; 2) SUPPRESSION by a home fire sprinkler
system; and 3) PROMPT EVACUATION using skills
learned while practicing home fire drills.


Did you know that home fire

sprinklers operate individually in response

to the high temperature of a fire?

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Fireboat Harry Newell creates its own rainbow. . .

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