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  • 2-alarm Fire Damages Brooklyn Park Home
    Crews from three north metro departments are operating at the scene of two-alarm fire in Brooklyn Park Thursday afternoon. About 2:10 p.m. crews were paged to 8001 Vincent Cir. N. for a reported garage fire. While enroute, units were advised that the fire was spreading to the attached home.
    - PUB DATE: 5/18/2012 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: twincitiesfirewire.com
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  • Firefighters poised to pounce should fire in Ely flare
    Highway 1 south out of Ely in northeastern Minnesota remained closed Friday morning after up to 100 firefighters worked through the night controlling the 150-acre blaze that nearly swept into the town on the edge of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. Firefighting officials said they have three helicopters and an airplane on standby as the fire smoldered after dawn.
    - PUB DATE: 5/18/2012 7:39:52 AM - SOURCE: Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune
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  • Nisswa: Geike named state Legion Firefighter of the Year
    Nisswa fire chief named state Legion Firefighter of the Year Nisswa fire chief Richard Geike was named the Minnesota American Legion Firefighter of the Year for 2011-12. He was nominated by Nisswa American Legion Post 627. Geike will attend the department convention in July in Redwood Falls to receive the award.
    - PUB DATE: 5/18/2012 1:13:22 AM - SOURCE: Pine River Journal
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  • Duluth: Talk of closing fire hall sparks dissent on Park Point
    Duluth Fire Chief John Strongitharm will face a tough room in the Lafayette Community Center tonight when he meets with Park Point residents to explain why the city is looking at closing the fire station that has served their neighborhood for decades. “People are really angry,” said Elizabeth Mackay, the outgoing vice president of the Park Point Community Club.
    - PUB DATE: 5/16/2012 10:42:36 PM - SOURCE: Duluth News Tribune
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  • Fire Ravages St. Louis Park Home, No One Hurt
    A St. Louis Park home was damaged by a fire Wednesday afternoon, but no injuries were reported. Firefighters responded to the 6800 block of 23rd Street West at approximately 3:15 p.m. after a neighbor called 911 to report smoke filling the house.
    - PUB DATE: 5/16/2012 2:24:55 PM - SOURCE: St. Louis Park Patch
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  • Update: Fire destroys Savage home; firefighter released from hospital
    A Savage firefighter is home today after he was hospitalized following an attempt to extinguish a house fire on Ottawa Avenue in Savage on Monday. The firefighter had been taken to St. Francis Medical Center in Shakopee for heat exhaustion and dehydration.
    - PUB DATE: 5/17/2012 1:32:56 AM - SOURCE: Prior Lake American
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  • Fire Scorches Northern Lake Minnetonka Home
    A faulty air conditioning unit is being blamed for causing a fire Wednesday morning near the Spring Park and Orono border. Long Lake Fire Chief James Van Eyll said police first arrived at the home on Minnie Avenue near the southern shores of North Arm Bay around 9:45 a.m. and found the northern side of the residence on fire.
    - PUB DATE: 5/16/2012 8:55:36 AM - SOURCE: Lake Minnetonka Patch
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  • Stillwater City Council advances new, centrally located fire station
    Stillwater could soon have a new $5 million fire station that would be more centrally located than the current downtown site at Stillwater City Hall. The Stillwater City Council voted unanimously Tuesday night to spend some $312,000 to complete about a third of the design work for the new fire station and a roadway to service it.
    - PUB DATE: 5/15/2012 9:41:47 PM - SOURCE: St. Paul Pioneer Press - Twin Cities.com
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  • Clay County woman convicted of arson; blamed ex-lover for fires
    A Clay County woman who blamed her ex-lover for setting a series of fires at her farm has been convicted of arson. Tara Andvik sobbed quietly as the guilty verdicts on three counts of arson were read in the courtroom late Tuesday night. The Forum says Andvik was handcuffed and led to the Clay County Jail.
    - PUB DATE: 5/16/2012 8:29:25 AM - SOURCE: KARE-TV NBC 11
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  • Missing tuber found dead in Blue Earth River near Mankato
    Crews have found the body of a woman who had been tubing on the Blue Earth River near Mankato Tuesday afternoon. The body of 21-year-old Jenny Mae Kraling was found by divers around 7 p.m. near the Rapidan Dam. The Blue Earth County sheriff's office was called to Rapidan Dam Park around 3 p.m. The park is located just off County Road 9, southwest of Mankato.
    - PUB DATE: 5/15/2012 7:44:06 PM - SOURCE: KARE-TV NBC 11
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