The Harrisburg-Carlisle area has the third-fewest occupational firefighters per capita of any metro region in the United States, according to a new ranking based on government data.
The ranking developed by security information website ASecureLife compared 2018 census population data and federal employment statistics. - PUB DATE: 8/20/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Sentinel
If you live outside the City of Batavia in Genesee County, the ability of volunteer fire companies to get enough able-bodied manpower to your house in a timely manner if it ever caught on fire is reaching a crisis stage, Tim Yaeger, emergency management coordinator told members of the County Legislature today. - PUB DATE: 8/20/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Batavian
On a Thursday afternoon, a rain storm drenched the mountains surrounding the Allenspark Fire Protection District’s Station No. 1 off of Colo. 7.
As water tapped against the roof, Stephen Coles , vice president of the Allenspark Fire Protection District , gathered with staff around a table with a stack of papers at the ready. - PUB DATE: 8/20/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Times-Call
VIDEO: An aircraft nearly 50-years-old is being restored to help fight wildfires in Washington state.
The Department of Natural Resources is using $1.1 million from the state's budget to bring the Huey helicopter back to life. The helicopter was first built in 1970 and used in Vietnam.
The DNR already has nine former Hueys in their fleet to drop water on fires across the state. - PUB DATE: 8/20/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KING-TV NBC 5 Seattle
The city of Decatur says it's time to hold first responders who don't arrive to an emergency in a timely manner responsible.
They say it's been a problem for years. The First Response Ambulance Service must arrive to city calls within minutes. If they don't, they'll pay a hefty fine.
Decatur Fire and Rescue Chief Anthony Grande and his team work directly with the city ambulance services. - PUB DATE: 8/20/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WAAY-TV ABC 31 Huntsville
Firefighters discovered a man trying to ignite more fires as they were dousing flames he had already started inside a business Saturday night.
“This was a first for us” says Longmont Chief of Fire Jerrod Vanlandingham. “You don’t typically expect to encounter an arsonist lighting fires at the time you are trying to extinguish them. - PUB DATE: 8/19/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KCNC-TV CBS 4 Denver
A special act of the state Legislature will allow the town’s fire chief to stay on the job past his mandatory retirement date next spring.
The act, approved by the Legislature and signed into law by Gov. Charlie Baker last Friday, allows Fire Chief Ed Bradley to work until his 67th birthday in April 2022. - PUB DATE: 8/19/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Wicked Local Plymouth
Retired NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt Jr., his family and two pilots survived a fiery plane crash Thursday after a hard landing at a Tennessee airport. First responders arrived at the scene to help — and this weekend NASCAR thanked them for taking care of one of its legends with free tickets to the races. - PUB DATE: 8/19/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: CBS News
Licking County fire officials offer varied reasons for the changing landscape of fire service nationwide.
But the general consensus is that the volunteer firefighter is "a dying breed."
While no organizations specifically track the number of strictly volunteer firefighters in Licking County, the Ohio Fire Marshal's Office tracks statewide numbers. - PUB DATE: 8/19/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Newark Advocate
Despite a protest from the fire department’s union, city officials opened a discussion about shuttering the Montclair station and slashing two firefighter/paramedic positions.
During Thursday’s public safety committee meeting, Rodney Hall, president of Edwardsville Fire Fighters’ Local 1700 spoke against the notion. - PUB DATE: 8/19/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Illinois Intelligencer
The Sacramento city firefighters union has gone public with its frustration over contract talks that are at a near impasse.
The contract expired eight months ago and the union says the city wants to eliminate or reduce health care and benefits for current and retired firefighters.
“It’s disheartening, that’s really what it is,” said union spokesperson Roberto Padilla. - PUB DATE: 8/16/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KTXL-TV FOX 40 Sacramento
The risk for firefighters is far greater than you might think. That risk may not be seen until years after the fire is out. The loss of one of their brothers to work-related cancer is just one of the reasons the Durham Fire Department is trying to change that.
“There are a lot more chemicals being given off during the fires that what we saw 15 or 20 years ago when things were more natural fibers so it’s just a lot dirtier fire that’s become a leading exposure to a lot more chemicals that we never saw in the past,” said Battalion Chief Wayne Cheek. - PUB DATE: 8/16/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WNCN-TV CBS 17 Raleigh
There's a travelling effort to honor first responders in El Paso in the wake of the mass shooting which killed 22 people.
A pair of flags are going to be making their way through Texas and are being signed by first responders.
Floresville is just the first stop of a statewide tour where two different Texas flags will be getting signatures. - PUB DATE: 8/16/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KABB-TV FOX 29 San Antonio
Kaden Kummala turns 5 at the end of August, but he’s not asking for presents.
“I just want people to give me money so I can give it to the firefighters,” he told his dad.
With help from his parents, Kyle and Katie Kummala, the Ramsey 4-year-old is raising funds for the Anoka-Champlin Fire Department. - PUB DATE: 8/16/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Hometown Source - Metered Site
In 1894, the Village of Monroe was incorporated within the Town of Monroe for a very practical reason – the residents needed a local fire department. A town could not form a fire district of its own. Only a village could do that.
As a result, Monroe residents had to rely on fire fighters from Goshen to travel 12 miles, sometimes by train, to battle their blazes. - PUB DATE: 8/16/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Photo News
In the midst of a serious heatwave, many Houston firefighters have had to operate out of trucks that lack air conditioning. This has prompted the firefighters union to demand the city repair its aging fleet, the Houston Chronicle reported.
Marty Lancton, president of the Houston Professional Fire Fighters Association, told Mayor Sylvester Turner in a letter this week to “dispense with the excuses and political rhetoric about what can or cannot be done. - PUB DATE: 8/15/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Texas Monitor
Firefighters utilizing the new Medford Fire-Rescue training facility at 2208 Table Rock Road will never get too familiar with the building’s interior, even if they use it hundreds of times.
That’s because training officials can modify the 3,000-square-foot, three-story building with movable walls and completely transform the environment, making for a variety of residential dwellings. - PUB DATE: 8/15/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Mail Tribune - Metered Site
Columbia-Richland County fire trucks are now fully staffed after the firefighters union claimed that short staffing was putting firefighters and some neighborhoods in danger.
Fire Chief Aubrey Jenkins confirmed the trucks now are fully staffed, and he hasn’t yet needed to cut in other areas.
“We’re going to leave it like this and then reevaluate,” he said. - PUB DATE: 8/15/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The State
VIDEO: A C-130 nicknamed Zeus will be in San Diego County throughout the month of August, training Ramona-based pilots who normally fly CalFire's workhorse S-2 tankers.
The pilots are training to fly the much bigger aircraft that will eventually join Cal Fire's fleet.
The first thing you notice about the C-130 is that it's huge. - PUB DATE: 8/15/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KNSD-TV NBC 7 San Diego
There’s a bipartisan push in Congress to change the work schedules for Federal Firefighters.
Local Representatives Elaine Luria, Robert Wittman, Donald McEachin, and Bobby Scott signed a letter led by Representative Mary Gay Scanlon in support of federal firehouses adopting an alternative work schedule. - PUB DATE: 8/15/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WVEC-TV ABC 13 Hampton
