VIDEO/PHOTO - A sweet moment captured on camera between a Wells firefighter and the dog he rescued from a roof is getting national attention.
A dog somehow managed to get onto the roof of his home through an upstairs window, prompting numerous calls to Wells police on Sunday. Police said “an awesome citizen” stood by the dog until firefighters arrived at the scene. - PUB DATE: 5/29/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Portland Press Herald
No one in Michigan can say how often fire safety inspections happen at some of the riskiest buildings used by the public, where firefighters have battled at least 1,245 blazes in the last 18 months.
The state fire marshal has never performed annual inspections of churches, theaters, restaurants and other "places of public assemblage," as required by a 1978 law enacted in response to a massive fire at a Kentucky ballroom that killed 168 people. - PUB DATE: 5/29/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Battle Creek Enquirer
The New Orleans Fire Department ran afoul of the state constitution when it promoted dozens of firefighters to the rank of captain even though they ranked lower than many other eligible candidates on a promotion exam, the city's Civil Service Commission said in a 33-page ruling issued Thursday.
But the ruling won’t help those who were passed over to climb the ranks, and it won’t strip the 41 who were promoted of their posts. - PUB DATE: 5/25/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Advocate
The Rodeo-Hercules Fire District recently voted to remove the chair from his position after alleged harassment and threats, including a threat to “crucify” the interim fire chief.
The Rodeo-Hercules Fire District board voted on May 9 to remove Ernest Wheeler as chair of the board after an internal investigation, among other things, found that Wheeler had threatened to “crucify” acting Fire Chief Bryan Craig over a disagreement on the use of district funds. - PUB DATE: 5/25/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: East Bay Times
Mobile officials gathered Thursday morning in the Crichton area to cut the ribbon on the "mother of all fire stations in the area," as one of them described it.
That was Councilman Fred Richardson, who had obvious reason to be delighted that the city's newest public safety facility was in his District 1. - PUB DATE: 5/25/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: AL.com
Sounding the alarm on cancer risks faced by firefighters, the Massachusetts Senate on Tuesday voted to set aside $420,000 to help municipalities buy equipment to remove deadly carcinogens from firefighters’ gear.
Under a budget amendment (1018) offered by Sen. Paul Feeney and adopted unanimously, the money would seed a new trust fund to support the bulk purchase of extractors -- essentially, Feeney said, large washing machines that can remove carcinogens that permeate clothing even after firefighters leave a scene. - PUB DATE: 5/25/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Wicked Local Wayland
The loved ones of two fallen York City firefighters are suing the engineering firm they say is responsible for surveying the Weaver Piano & Organ building the day of the fatal collapse.
Attorneys for Casey Flanscha, widow of Ivan Flanscha, and Allison Hoffman, fiancee of Zachary Anthony, filed a wrongful death suit against Carney Engineering Group and its president, Josh Carney, on Thursday, May 24. - PUB DATE: 5/25/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: York Dispatch
A new professional standards program at Cal Fire is giving the department a mechanism to hand down discipline in a consistent manner across the state for the first time in its history.
It’s racking up pay reductions, suspensions and dismissals at a rate that rivals scandal-plagued 2014 – the year when an instructor at its fire academy murdered his mistress and brought intense scrutiny on the department. - PUB DATE: 5/24/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Sacramento Bee
In its first federal sexual harassment complaint of the Me Too movement, the ACLU has filed charges against the Fairfax County and the fire department.
The charges are being filed on behalf of two of the highest-ranking women in the Fairfax County Fire Department. The national civil rights organization is accusing Fairfax County leadership of retaliation over sexual harassment complaints. - PUB DATE: 5/24/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WUSA-TV 9 DC
A two-year-old is alive after a near drowning at an Upstate swimming pool. And it's thanks in large part to an area fire chief, who was the first to arrive on the scene.
The emergency unfolded at the Hartwell Villas pool Tuesday around 5 p.m. But luckily, that was the same time a hero happened to be nearby and heard the call for help. - PUB DATE: 5/24/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WCSC-TV Charleston Live 5 News
A months-long probe into abuse of sick leave within the fire department concluded this week with the resignation of a deputy chief and the release of an internal review.
The city paid $93,816 in unearned or unauthorized sick time, benefits and incentives over the past five years, according to the review. - PUB DATE: 5/24/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Tampa Tribune and TBO.com (Tampa Bay Online)
Two firefighters were buried in rubble during a fire in Rogers Park Wednesday.
Officials said roof work was in progress at an apartment building on the 6100 block of North Hoyne Avenue, which set off the fire.
Several firefighters were climbing the stairs to access the fire when the stairs collapsed, causing three of the firefighters to fall. - PUB DATE: 5/24/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WLS-TV ABC 7 Chicago
Chris Anderson looked forward to sleeping in Friday morning. As assistant chief for Santa Fe Fire and Rescue, a volunteer fire department, Anderson's plans changed when the phone rang minutes before 8 a.m.
"I never would have thought this would have happened to our community," Anderson said. It did happen. - PUB DATE: 5/23/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KPRC-TV NBC 2 Houston
An investigation into complaints of bullying and sexual harassment at Spokane Fire Department Station 2 found five officials violated city policies.
Yet the investigation is being criticized as one-sided and thus, incomplete, by those named in the report and the union that represents them.
The city’s Human Resources Department issued a report April 27 following a two-month-long investigation that named Battalion Chiefs Don Waller and Darin Neiwert, and Lts. - PUB DATE: 5/23/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Spokesman-Review
If you are one of the thousands of Anne Arundel residents with CPR training a new phone app can alert you to a nearby heart attack or another cardiac emergency in a public place.
The county activated PulsePoint Monday, an app that will notify CPR certified residents who sign up to participate and provide the location of public automated external defibrillators — a portable device that checks the heart rhythm and can send an electric shock to the heart to try to restore a normal rhythm — they can grab on their way. - PUB DATE: 5/23/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: CapitalGazette.com
Active shooter training exercises are becoming more commonplace across the country; which is a good thing. However, without proper planning, many of these well-meaning exercises leave the responders no better off than before or possibly even worse. A strong, multi-discipline exercise design team, a solid exercise plan and buy in from the responding disciplines are critical ingredients for success. - PUB DATE: 5/23/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: FireRescue1
Joey Kauppi already knew his Dad wouldn't be able to attend his graduation from George County High School last Friday night.
What he didn't know was who would.
Gautier firefighter Lt. Dan Kauppi was seriously injured in an accident a little over a month ago. On his way to work, Kauppi's truck left the roadway on Gautier-Vancleave Road and overturned, ejected Kauppi from the vehicle. - PUB DATE: 5/23/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Mississippi Press (Gulf Live - South East Mississippi)
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is expected next month to roll back chemical plant safety reforms that the Obama administration proposed after 15 people died in a fertilizer plant explosion in West.
The rollback means the disaster, which exposed wide safety gaps in the industry and its oversight, will result in no significant federal regulatory changes, as the Austin American-Statesman reports. - PUB DATE: 5/22/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: MySanAntonio.com
A firefighter became trapped inside of a burning apartment building Friday after the roof collapsed.
According to a Facebook post, the Otsego County Fire Department was battling an apartment blaze when an evacuation was ordered just before the roof collapsed.
“Two of three firefighters cleared the front of the structure immediately prior to the collapse,” the department said. - PUB DATE: 5/22/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: FireRescue1
The International Association of Fire Chiefs (IAFC) supports the use of mobile technology for citizen response in conjunction with community cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and automated external defibrillator (AED) programs. In a Position Statement adopted May 9, the IAFC Board of Directors cited the PulsePoint mobile phone application (app) as a unique solution to increase survival from sudden cardiac arrest by bridging the gap between a cardiac arrest event and arrival of medical assistance. - PUB DATE: 5/22/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: International Association of Fire Chiefs
