The FDNY confirmed Tuesday that one of its lieutenants died early Saturday morning of a heart attack after a 24-hour tour.
"He was the heart of the firehouse, he always had a good word to say.""I was shocked. Brian was obviously in good shape, he was a strong guy," Thomas McHugh of Squad Company 41 said at a news conference. - PUB DATE: 8/14/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Spectrum News NY1
The Toledo Fire & Rescue Department wants to enlist the help of a local minority-owned creative firm to increase diversity in its ranks, but some city councilmen aren’t sure they want to award the contract without first going to bid.
Fire officials on Tuesday proposed contracting with Vince Rocha Productions LLC’s vCreative to produce a recruitment campaign for the department. - PUB DATE: 8/14/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Toledo Blade
Despite pressure from a contingent of firefighters, the Aspen Fire Protection District Board declined Tuesday to begin formally looking into hiring paid firefighters.
“If you ask for a hard decision now, the answer will be no to paid staffing,” board President Karl Adam said. “I am not willing to engage the public when I’m not sure where we’re going with this. - PUB DATE: 8/14/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Aspen Times
The Houston Fire Department is trying to find a better way to allocate resources. They gave graduate students from Rice University data on emergency calls and asked them to identify trends.
The students did an extensive analysis of 911 calls over the past several years and presented their findings Tuesday to Houston City Council. - PUB DATE: 8/14/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KHOU-TV CBS 11 Houston
They’re exhausted.
We told you Monday night about the shortage at the federal fire department tasked with keeping Naval Station Great Lakes safe, and how that shortage is affecting surrounding communities.
On Tuesday, CBS 2’s Tara Molina took concerns to our elected officials. She learned that members of Congress are also asking the Navy why the shortage, and the issues it is creating, are not being addressed. - PUB DATE: 8/14/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WBBM-TV CBS 2 Chicago
Wildfire smoke from the Williams Flats fire, burning on the Colville Indian Reservation, triggered a thunderstorm Thursday, and for one of the only times ever, scientists were able to fly through its clouds, photograph the phenomenon from a jet and take measurements from inside.
The phenomenon, called a pyrocumulonimbus or PyroCb, “is essentially a thunderstorm that is created or driven by a wildfire,” said David Peterson, a meteorologist with the Naval Research Laboratory, giddy after Thursday’s flight. - PUB DATE: 8/13/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Daily World
An abandoned house on West 13th Street was the site of a fire department demonstration Saturday morning.
Envisioning a cool summer night about 10 p.m., the demonstration stated that crews were called to a working structure fire at Reid Avenue and 13th Street. Firefighters were met on the scene by a young man who said his baby was asleep upstairs when the fire broke out in the kitchen at the back of the house. - PUB DATE: 8/13/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Chronicle Telegram
ISO, a Verisk (Nasdaq:VRSK) business and leading provider of advanced tools and analytics for the property/casualty insurance industry, and Intterra, a leading provider of software for fire departments across the United States, are partnering with the Western Fire Chiefs Association (WFCA) to explore new ways of analyzing and understanding wildfire risk. - PUB DATE: 8/13/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: InsuranceNewsNet
VIDEO: Three of the five youngsters killed in a Sunday-morning fire at a Pennsylvania day care center were the children of a volunteer firefighter who was responding to another call several blocks away.
The firefighter, Luther Jones, was with the Lawrence Park Volunteer Fire Department handling other calls while the neighboring Erie Fire Department battled the deadly flames at the Harris Family Day Care. - PUB DATE: 8/13/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Fox News
Firefighters protect our forests and wildlands from destruction. They put their lives at risk to stop blazes before they threaten our communities. Apparel- and gear-maker Filson is celebrating their stories, and we share a few of them here in the series ‘Protectors of the Forest.’
Smokejumpers are specially trained wildland firefighters — and their training is grueling. - PUB DATE: 8/13/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: GearJunkie
Smokey Bear, the recognizable mascot of wildfire prevention in the United States, turns 75 today.
The U.S. Forest Service started the campaign in 1944 and used it to educate the American public on the dangers of forest fires. A live mascot, appropriately named Smokey, was added to the campaign in 1950. - PUB DATE: 8/9/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: USA Today
An armed man reportedly wearing body armor and pushing a shopping cart at a Walmart store in Missouri on Thursday led a store manager to pull the fire alarm and sent customers fleeing -- but an armed off-duty firefighter was able to detain the man until police officers arrived, Springfield police said. - PUB DATE: 8/9/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Fox News
The thought of flight and the consuming power of fire has fascinated mankind for centuries. Who hasn’t looked up wondering what it would be like to soar among the clouds? Who hasn’t sat mesmerized, staring into a campfire? The translucent red flames reaching toward the sky somehow hold us captive. For a select few, fire and flight go hand in hand. - PUB DATE: 8/9/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KCET
It's a day meant to be remembered forever in scrapbooks: the first day of kindergarten, when parents walk their child to class for the first time.
But for one Phoenix family, it was a bittersweet first day of kindergarten, as one parent was missing.
Phoenix firefighter Brian Beck, Jr., tragically lost his battle with occupational cancer in May of this year. - PUB DATE: 8/9/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: AZFamily.com
The Bureau of Land Management Idaho Falls District has transferred surplus wildland fire engines and equipment to 34 fire programs— including two Rangeland Fire Protection Associations —across eastern Idaho. The transfers are part of BLM’s effort to respond to rural wildland fires by giving excess equipment and supplies to local fire departments and RFPAs. - PUB DATE: 8/9/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Idaho State Journal
Prince George’s County Fire Chief (PGFD) Benjamin Barksdale announced his retirement on July 30 from the department effective Oct. 31, when current Chief Deputy Tiffany Green will take over as interim chief.
Green’s new appointment will not become official until the county council confirms it, but her promotion marks the county’s first African American female chief and the continuation of an increasing trend in female fire chiefs in the state. - PUB DATE: 8/8/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Prince George's Sentinel
Halle Roebuck was born in Paradise, California just moments before a raging fire approached the local Adventist Health Feather River Hospital. Immediately after her birth, the hospital’s patients were ordered to evacuate. Heather Roebuck, Halle’s mom, later said she was told “Grab your baby, we’ve got to go. - PUB DATE: 8/8/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: IAFC.org
VIDEO: First responders make it their mission to save the lives of others. But the tragic death of a Tucson Fire captain has inspired the department to launch a campaign aimed at saving the lives of their own.
Captain Glenn Fleck chewed tobacco on-and-off for years. Last year, he passed away from oral cancer. - PUB DATE: 8/8/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KVOA-TV NBC 4 Tucson
When Durango firefighters and paramedics pass through the city, they are reminded of past calls, like echoes in time – a crash at that intersection, a bodily trauma call in that house, the loss of a loved one for that family.
“It’s like going down Main Street being like, I’ve seen a dead person there,” said an engineer in the department, who asked not to be named to maintain his privacy. - PUB DATE: 8/8/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Durango Herald
VIDEO: Concord firefighters welcome the final steps of a run that stepped off in California eight months ago.
Nashua native Matty Gregg has not been back to New Hampshire in over a decade.
His legs and an important mission helped carry him over 5,400 miles through 24 states and over 400 towns as he has raised over $100,000 for the Firefighter Cancer Support Network. - PUB DATE: 8/8/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WMUR-TV ABC 9 Manchester
