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Jan. 02–Firefighters from coast to coast are mourning the death of Michael Mullane, a longtime labor leader remembered as a legendary old-school negotiator who fought for the rights of his front-line constituents.

According to a report by SFGATE, on Thursday around 10 p.m., a fire broke out in a residential building near the world’s tallest skyscraper in Dubai, Unite Emirates.

This image released by the Saudi Civil Defense hows firefighters responding to a fire at a hospital in Jizan, Saudi Arabia, Thursday, Dec. 24, 2015. The cause of the blaze, which broke out in the early hours of Thursday around the hospital's intensive care, maternity and neonatal care wards, remains unknown, Saudi Civil Defense spokesman Maj. Yahya bin Abdullah al-Qahtani said.

Firefighters syand in front of a building in Berlin, Sunday Dec. 27, 2015. The city fire service said that furniture in a second-story room caught fire on Sunday, but the cause of the fire wasn’t immediately clear, news agency dpa reported. Around 200 people left the building to escape the smoke. The budget hotel in a communist-era building in the eastern Marzahn district was once used to accommodate refugees, but the city government said it currently isn’t housing any migrants there.

Lawmakers could give tax credits or state health insurance to entice more people to volunteer. China Village Fire Chief Tim Theriault hopes that measures being considered by legislators will help provide enough incentive to attract more volunteer firefighters and allow departments to remain fiscally afloat.

As road crews on Monday prepared for this winter's first storm, Saratoga County officials announced they have obtained a new tool for combating another potential public safety threat: trains that transport oil.

<GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. — Ed McCormick, a Great Barrington firefighter for more than 50 years, has helped many people in emergency situations during his service to the town.

PARIS (AP) — A crowd vandalized a Muslim prayer room in Corsica a day after an ambush injured two firefighters responding to an emergency in a housing project, the state prefect on the French island said Saturday.