Looking a the numbers at the end of the first year of the Racine Fire Department’s home visit program, department Division Chief Brian Wolf said he’s seen how the program “is greatly needed.”
For its first year, the program has been focused on cardiac patients. Fire Chief Steve Hansen said the department’s partners in the program at Advocate Aurora and Ascension All Saints would like to see the program expanded, but the department’s plan is to grow the program incrementally. - PUB DATE: 12/27/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Journal Times - Metered Site
Much of a Long Island firehouse was destroyed after going up in flames Christmas morning, leaving the chief in tears as he described the loss of two pumpers, a ladder truck, an ambulance and the volunteer department’s firefighting equipment.
A passing state trooper noticed the blaze at the unoccupied North Massapequa fire headquarters at 1000 N. - PUB DATE: 12/26/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: New York Post
Spartanburg County’s fire service needs have failed to keep up with the growth of more than 50,000 residents over the past 20 years, the county’s leading fire official says.
That’s primarily because the county’s master fire service plan has not been updated in more than 20 years, according to Barry Frost. - PUB DATE: 12/26/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Spartanburg Herald Journal
VIDEO: Firefighters battled a five-alarm blaze at a commercial building in Mahwah shortly before 5 a.m. Christmas Day, working for hours to get it under control, officials said.
The fire occurred at the Arzee Building Supply Center at 37 Franklin Turnpike, Mahwah Police Chief Stephen Jaffe said. All five Mahwah fire department companies, township police and firefighters from mutual aid support from Rockland County in New York responded to the call, officials said. - PUB DATE: 12/26/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Firehouse.com
The Pell City Fire Department is working on a new partnership with local businesses for 2020.
The department will ring in the new year with its new Fire and Life Safety Program. This program will mainly entail the inspections of all business in the city during the new year.
Ahead of these inspections, the city is also asking that businesses complete a few minor steps that will help both them and the department in the long run. - PUB DATE: 12/26/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: St. Clair Times
A nine-foot tree outside Fairfax County’s Public Safety Headquarters is not only celebrating the holidays but honoring those who served.
“The cumulative impact of stress from being a first responder starts to creep up on you,” said Fairfax County Police Chief Ed Roessler.
Two years ago, stress caught up with the Chief after some of his friends died in the line of duty and by suicide. - PUB DATE: 12/23/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WJLA-TV ABC 7
As the city continues to stay mum on the plan to encrypt tens of thousands of police radios in New York City, yet another group is expressing concerns that they will also be shut out of the NYPD feed — volunteer firefighters and ambulance companies.
Dozens of volunteer ambulance groups currently respond to help New Yorkers around the city, and they monitor police radios to provide assistance. - PUB DATE: 12/23/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: amNewYork
Mike Berthiaume, 31, a Franklin firefighter, was transferring a patient at the hospital when he suddenly felt pain in his knee.
The injury would cause him to miss work, his one true passion, for the next year.
“I basically just twisted my knee the wrong way, it was like a compression and twisting injury, and from there it just escalated,” said Berthiaume. - PUB DATE: 12/23/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Boston Herald - Metered Site
One community is getting into the holiday spirit in an unconventional way.
Grayson firefighters saw a video of a fireman in New York, dressed as Buddy the Elf, starting pillow fights with random people.
They said it looked like too much fun not to try themselves.
When people see the Clark Griswold car approaching blaring music from the National Lampoon Vacation films, it's only a harbinger of the surreal Christmas experience that's about to literally strike them. - PUB DATE: 12/23/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WSFA-TV NBC 12 Montgomery
Interstate 485 drivers caused a traffic jam while gawking at and videotaping an overturned car, emergency responders said in a lengthy rebuke on Twitter Saturday night.
“Please put your phones down and keep your eyes on the road,” Matthews Fire & EMS tweeted earlier in the day with two photos from the wreck scene, including one of an overturned car. - PUB DATE: 12/23/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Charlotte Observer
A Local Law introduced by Chairman Dan J. Reynolds and the Majority Legislators that shields and protects First Responders has been approved by the Broome County Legislature. At the Regular Legislative Session held on Thursday, December 19th, the Legislature approved the Emergency First Responders Protection Act of 2019. - PUB DATE: 12/20/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WICZ-TV FOX 40 Binghamton
The Cambria County Board of Commissioners on Thursday voted unanimously to approve a $16.9 million contract for upgrades to the county’s public safety radio system, a move designed to improve emergency responders’ ability to reliably communicate with each other and with 911 dispatchers.
Robbin Melnyk, Cambria County’s 911 coordinator, said during Thursday’s meeting of the Board of Commissioners that the “questionable” reliability of the county’s existing public radio system “is a safety risk to our responders. - PUB DATE: 12/20/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Johnstown Tribune-Democrat
VIDEO: When Paul Pietrafesa, a driver for Coral Springs-Parkland Fire Department was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, his wife Karen said she was glad he and their family had done everything they always wanted to do, and that they had lived every day like it was their last.
“Cancer doesn’t discriminate. - PUB DATE: 12/20/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Coral Springs Talks
The labor unions representing Paterson’s police officers and firefighters are accusing the city of violating their contracts by not issuing accrued leave time payments to employees who retired since July 1.
Administration officials said the city intends to make the payments eventually, but that checks have not yet been issued because of “a cash flow issue. - PUB DATE: 12/20/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: NorthJersey.com - Metered Site
A North Bay man has written a song he hopes fire departments will adopt as an anthem. It's called "Smoke Soldiers," a three-minute rock ballad paying tribute to firefighters.
And on Wednesday night, four Santa Rosa restaurants threw their support behind David Benjamin Gruenbaum of Santa Rosa 's effort. - PUB DATE: 12/20/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KTVU-TV FOX 2 Oakland
After vetting applicants as near as the Central Valley and as far off as Florida, the city of Visalia has selected a new fire chief: Daniel Griswold of Casper, Wyoming.
"Without exception, everyone that had an opportunity to meet and talk with Dan really seemed to find him engaging, personable and approachable," City Manager Randy Groom said. - PUB DATE: 12/19/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Visalia Times Delta - Metered Site
Christmas came early for the Willingboro Fire and EMS Department.
Township officials gathered Wednesday to cut the ribbon at the department’s brand new, over 30,000-square-feet fire station.
The milestone marks over a decade of the department working to get its members a new home.
“This is something that is a longtime coming and is well deserved. - PUB DATE: 12/19/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Burlington County Times
First responders, dispatchers, correction officers and their families in the Tri-State are getting new tools to take care of themselves and their coworkers. The Hamilton County Fire Chief's Association is launching a program to encourage the creation of peer support teams.
Colerain Township Battalion Chief Steve Conn says in 2018 members of the association recognized the need for some type of mental health program for firefighters. - PUB DATE: 12/19/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WVXU Cincinnati Public Radio
A Vernon Township firefighter found himself in the middle of his own medical emergency during a call last weekend.
Captain Anthony Karhoff was paged out for a carbon monoxide call Friday night.
"We started to investigate the situation by looking at the CO and smoke detectors in the house and I started feeling kind of uncomfortable, sick to my stomach and nauseous," Karhoff said. - PUB DATE: 12/19/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: ABC 12 News
Police are trying to sort out the circumstances surrounding a crash involving an Exeter Township Fire Department utility vehicle and a well-drilling truck.
The crash was reported shortly after 8 a.m. Wednesday on an icy stretch of Shelbourne Road, between Wingspread Drive and Rugby Road, in Exeter Township. - PUB DATE: 12/19/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WFMZ-TV 69 News
