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• VIDEO: Fire damages South Carolina home

  07-06-2023 09:00 via dailydispatch.com
  PHOTOS: Multiple agencies responded Tuesday night to a structure fire on James Island.According to Charleston County Dispatch, the fire was on the 1900 block of Wild Wing Lane.Witness photos and video showed flames engulfing a raised home, with the fire threatening to spread to nearby cars, homes, and trees.
  - PUB DATE: 6/7/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WCBD-TV NBC 2 Charleston
  
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• VIDEO: 1 dead, 2 injured after car flips off ramp in Washington, D.C., police say

  07-06-2023 09:00 via dailydispatch.com
  The Metropolitan Police Department is investigating a deadly car crash on Interstate 395 in Southwest D.C. on Sunday.At approximately 7:45 p.m., a Hyundai Elantra was traveling south in the Ninth Street tunnel, police said. The driver of the car began to take the westbound ramp and struck the jersey wall twice for reasons unknown, causing the car to crash over the wall and onto the southbound I-395 below.
  - PUB DATE: 6/7/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WJLA-TV ABC 7 Washington DC
  
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• Tulsa firefighters union supports medical marijuana for firefighters

  07-06-2023 09:00 via dailydispatch.com
  VIDEO: Tulsa firefighters should have the ability to use medicinal marijuana to relieve pain and other job-related stress, says Tulsa Firefighters Local 176 Union President Matt Lay.
  "Originally, it was brought to us by a lot of service members that talked about being able to move away from schedule 2 narcotics and a litany of prescriptions they were on, using cannabis-based products," Lay said.
  - PUB DATE: 6/7/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KOKI-TV FOX 23 Tulsa
  
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• Big Fires in 1889 devastated three cities in Washington state

  07-06-2023 09:00 via dailydispatch.com
  PHOTOS: When Washington became a state in November 1889, that wasn’t the only big news story that year.In the final spring and summer of Washington’s territorial era, big fires ravaged major sections of downtowns on both sides of the Cascades, from Seattle, to Ellensburg, to Spokane. Seattle’s fire struck on the breezy, blue-sky afternoon of Thursday, June 6, 1889.
  - PUB DATE: 6/7/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: My Northwest
  
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