Assistant Mayor Cliff Lazenby will ask the rest of the City Council to support his efforts to lobby the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) to conduct a health study on firefighters who have been exposed to PFAS chemicals.
Lazenby said he intends to ask the City Council at Monday’s meeting to send a letter signed by Mayor Jack Blalock and the council asking NIOSH to conduct such a study. - PUB DATE: 12/3/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Seacoast Online
VIDEO - A group of Dallas firefighters who rescued other firefighters during the devastating condo fire earlier this week are now sharing their incredible story of what happened.
Everyone survived the 4-alarm fire in northeast Dallas Tuesday morning. That includes the three firefighters who got trapped when a ceiling collapsed on them. - PUB DATE: 12/3/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KDFW Fox 4 News
The city of San Antonio notified the San Antonio Professional Fire Fighters Association on Thursday that it has officially dropped the lawsuit that the Texas Supreme Court refused to hear over the summer.
The dismissal of the suit sets the stage for contract negotiations to begin more than four years after the fire union’s contract initially expired. - PUB DATE: 11/30/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: San Antonio Express-News
Some Medford firefighters are upset after their ladder truck was pulled out of service for hours to put up the city's holiday decorations.
Medford Firefighter Eddie Buckley says he's shocked because the town is already down ladder trucks. One of them is out of service for repair so Boston Fire is loaning them one, leaving Medford with just one working ladder truck of its own. - PUB DATE: 11/30/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Boston 25 News
Butte County Sheriff’s Deputy Aaron Parmley was on Pentz Road attempting to rescue four nurses when his patrol car broke down.
With embers swirling around him, he set out on foot surrounded by flames. Parmley switched on his body camera “in hopes of capturing what he thought were going to be the last moments of his life,” the sheriff’s office said Thursday. - PUB DATE: 11/30/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Mendocino Beacon
A woman who has performed hundreds of on-camera interviews and appeared on billboards representing Jackson County Fire District 3 has filed a civil-rights complaint with the state claiming that local officials took away her spokesperson duties as retaliation for complaining of sexual harassment and taking a medical leave earlier this year. - PUB DATE: 11/30/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Medford Mail Tribune
A volunteer fire company that broke away from the city of Salisbury nearly two years ago is no longer recognized by the Wicomico County Fire Chiefs Association after the group passed changes to its bylaws.
Members voted 9-4 on Wednesday night to adopt a new bylaw that requires participating fire companies to have recognized territories, something that the Salisbury Independent Volunteer Fire Company is lacking. - PUB DATE: 11/30/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Delmarva Now
Two firefighters were injured when a wrong-way driver slammed head-on into their engine on Interstate 5 near downtown San Diego Thursday morning, according to California Highway Patrol.
A San Diego Fire-Rescue truck was responding to a pedestrian hit-and-run crash at about 2 a.m. when a Toyota Carolla, traveling the wrong way on I-5 at State Route 94, slammed into it, CHP said. - PUB DATE: 11/30/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KNSD-TV NBC San Diego
A report released Wednesday warns that Pennsylvania’s fire and rescue services face a crisis, saying the number of volunteers continues to fall amid funding needs and training challenges.
The 95-page legislative study said there were about 300,000 volunteer firefighters in the state in the 1970s, a number that’s fallen to about 38,000 currently. - PUB DATE: 11/29/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Bucks County Courier Times
Firefighter Kelly Gall is suing the city of Austin for failing to prevent sexual harassment from former Austin fire Lt. James Baker, who pleaded guilty in October to filming Gall in a fire station restroom.
In a civil lawsuit filed in Travis County this week, Gall says the city failed to take action against Baker, her former supervisor, for previous reports of inappropriate behavior. - PUB DATE: 11/29/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Austin American-Statesman
Garfield Township Trustee Steve Duell used a metaphor of three farmers to describe why he believes the township should leave the Grand Traverse Metro Fire Department unless changes happen.
These three farmers own farms of differing sizes — one small, one big and one medium, but each has equal say in what their neighbors do. - PUB DATE: 11/29/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Traverse City Record-Eagle
Gerald Munson, the former chief of the Croton-on-Hudson Fire Department, and member of a family involved in the village fire services for nearly a century, on Wednesday was sentenced to as much as four and a half years in state prison for stealing $313,000 from the department.
Westchester County Court Judge Larry Schwartz handed down the sentence two months after Munson pleaded guilty to grand larceny as a crime of public corruption. - PUB DATE: 11/29/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: NY Journal News (Lohud.com)
The Detroit Firefighters Union is blasting Detroit police, questioning why it took police more than 20 minutes to respond to the scene of a murder.
It happened Saturday at a home on Epworth Street on the city's west side. The first calls for help came in at 1:40 a.m. but police didn't get there until repeated calls for help were sent out. - PUB DATE: 11/29/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WDIV-TV NBC 4 Detroit
Three Dallas Fire-Rescue firefighters trapped in a burning condo while battling a massive fire Tuesday morning were treated for minor injuries after being rescued by an intervention team, fire officials say. The firefighters were among more than 100 called to battle a large four-alarm fire at about 9:30 a. - PUB DATE: 11/28/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KXAS-TV NBC 5 Dallas - Fort Worth
When the Woolsey fire swept into the exclusive neighborhood of Bell Canyon, resident Yen Hsieh grabbed her late music teacher’s 200-year-old cello, some belongings and her son’s betta fish Sparky and fled, not sure whether her home would be destroyed. Hsieh said it’s not clear which of the firefighters — private or publicly funded — were responsible for saving her home, but she’s grateful. - PUB DATE: 11/28/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: San Diego Union-Tribune
For decades, Scott Phillips-Gartner served as a member of Norfolk Fire-Rescue, first as a 911 operator and later as an assistant fire marshal and bomb squad technician.
But then in October 2014 he married his longtime boyfriend, leading his bosses to find out he was gay.
Phillips-Gartner, 55, says the department ultimately stripped him of his rank and directed him to start working out of a temporary facility miles away from his usual office “with little to no job duties. - PUB DATE: 11/28/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Norfolk Virginian-Pilot/HamptonRoads.com
Mayor Sylvester Turner will ask Houston city council Wednesday to hire a law firm to advise the city on possible litigation related to the firefighter pay parity measure, setting in motion a potential court challenge to the item approved by voters earlier this month.
While the firefighters union has urged the city to return to the negotiating table, Turner has questioned whether the city could preempt the ballot measure approved by voters, suggesting a judge should settle the question first. - PUB DATE: 11/28/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Houston Chronicle
A Logansport fire that killed six people, including four children, is being investigated as a possible criminal case, according to the Cass County sheriff.
The call for the fire came out around 1:50 a.m. in the 4300 block of Pottawatomie Road on the east side of the city.
Cass County Fire Lt. Steve Crispen says the sheriff’s department arrived on the scene first. - PUB DATE: 11/28/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WXIN-TV Fox 59 Indianapolis
Retirement was looking good for Alicia Welch. After more than 26 years in the Los Angeles Fire Department, she moved to Golden and was skiing, mountain biking, and was learning to play golf. Then she saw that the Golden Fire Department needed a new fire chief. Those golf clubs would have to be used on weekends. - PUB DATE: 11/27/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KUSA-TV NBC 9 Denver
St. Paul firefighter Joaquin Rosales and several of his colleagues rushed to a pile of rubble on the city’s East Side Friday morning when an unusually large explosion destroyed a home and damaged several buildings.
They were searching amid piles of debris and exposed nails when Rosales heard moaning and groaning. - PUB DATE: 11/27/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune
