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MERRICOURT (AP) - The town of Merricourt used to have its own fire department. Now, fires in and around the town are fought by fire departments in Ellendale and Edgeley.

Nov. 6--Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski asked Attorney General Eric Holder on Thursday to assist the family of a Baltimore fire cadet killed in a training exercise whose death benefit claim was rejected by the Department of Justice.

Nov. 6--LINCOLN, Maine -- Firefighters from four towns contained the flames but weren't able to save the home of a popular weekly newspaper late Thursday.

The printing press, computers and files of the Lincoln News were heavily damaged by the fire that ravaged the Lincoln News Print Services building at 78 West Broadway. No one was inside the 1 1/2 -story building or injured fighting the fire, which was reported shortly before 6:30 p.m.

Communities applying for federal Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response (SAFER) Grants will not have any out of pocket or cost share expenses this year, the Department of Homeland Security announced today.

 The guidelines for the 2010 Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) annual SAFER grant program were released today and the application period will run from Nov. 16 to 5 p.m.

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Nov. 5--An elderly couple died this morning in a house fire in Coalton in Jackson County.

Raymond Kimbleton, 70, and his wife Phyllis, 69, died in the fire, said Sheriff John Shasteen.

Deputy Tony Perdue was on patrol about 5 a.m. when he noticed smoke and flames coming from the house at 21 Broadway St., the sheriff said.

Unable to enter due to heavy smoke, the deputy raced around the house knocking on doors and windows with his flashlight in an attempt to alert the Kimbletons, Shasteen said.

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A new automated phone system will soon warn hundreds of people of emergencies, water boil orders and other important information.

The City Watch program will be used in Brooke, Hancock, Ohio and Marshall counties.

LYNN, Mass.

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Investigators are trying to determine what caused a raging blaze in Lynn two-family home Tuesday night that left three police officers injured after they rushed into a burning building to save the people trapped inside.

Seven people live in the house at 18 Clinton St., but only four were at home at the time the blaze broke out around 9:30 p.m.

Panicked neighbors alerted police to the two-alarm fire.

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Students were evacuated from City Hill Middle School in Nautatuck amid a fire Thursday morning.

The fire was reported in a custodial storage room at the building just after 9 a.m. Fire officials said the blaze, which was described as being small, was contained to the storage room.

Fire officials said there was extensive water and smoke damage to the second floor because the sprinkler system activated.

ST. JOHNS COUNTY, Fla.

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A tractor-trailer hauling bananas blew a tire and overturned on Interstate 95 near International Golf Parkway early Thursday.

The Florida Highway Patrol said the crash happened at about 2:30 a.m. about three miles north of International Golf Parkway in the northbound lanes.

The truck was en route from Miami and rolled over onto its side. FHP said St. Johns Fire and Rescue had to get a ladder to get the driver out of the cab. He was not injured.