VIDEO - There’s an unexpected update to a story from last week about a Burnsville firefighter. Bill D’Agostino retired Wednesday afternoon after 36 years on the job.
As we told you last week, he got a very special retirement gift from a longtime friend — Noah Hamm. It was a heartfelt thank you book, filled with photos of Noah visiting the Burnsville fire station since he was 6 years old in 2004. - PUB DATE: 3/1/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WCCO-TV CBS 4
California may be in the thick of winter, but state fire crews are on the front lines of a new battle.
Fire officials met at the state Capitol Tuesday, planning for another destructive year and to prevent one like 2017. From Napa to Ventura County, 2017 may have been a record year for destructive fires in the state. - PUB DATE: 2/28/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KOVR-TV CBS Sacramento
The psychologist who conducts psychological exams for men and women who want to become Buffalo police officers and firefighters may be on his way out, after complaints of racial bias and inappropriate questions probing applicants' sexual histories.
And the entire system for how candidates are hired for the departments will be evaluated and likely overhauled. - PUB DATE: 2/28/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Buffalo News
A recent NIOSH report found that a volunteer firefighter was killed when a tanker backing out of the fire station fatally struck him.
According to the report, the volunteer fire department had participated in a motorcycle benefit for a children’s cancer organization and were using their apparatus to control traffic for the event. - PUB DATE: 2/28/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: FireRescue1
A firefighting empowerment camp for girls was abruptly canceled after a discrimination complaint to the city.
That complaint came from a boy's father who called it a "girls only" empowerment camp that deterred his son from taking part.
Organizers with the Girls Empowerment Camp told us registration for the March 3 and 4 camp filled up with 100 participants in just three days. - PUB DATE: 2/28/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: NBC San Diego
A longtime fire chief in West Hazleton will lead the department on an interim basis until council permanently fills the position, borough officials said.
Council appointed Robert Ward as borough fire department chief after Shawn Evans resigned as chief of both the fire department and fire company, according to several borough officials. - PUB DATE: 2/28/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Standard Speaker
As Madeleine Wilford bled out from multiple gunshot wounds outside Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, the first responder struggling to keep her alive was faced with a choice.
Coral Springs Fire Department Lt. Laz Ojeda could follow guidance to rush the high school student to a hospital 30 miles away, where policy dictates most child patients should go. - PUB DATE: 2/27/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Tampa Bay Times and Tampa Bay.com
RAW VIDEO - Firefighters rescued one mother and three children Monday morning in a Willowbrook-area apartment fire that destroyed 16 units.
First responders arrived at 14131 Cornerstone Village Dr. just before 2 a.m. to see flames raging in the North Bend Apartments.
One building was destroyed in the blaze, which went through the roof, causing it to collapse, a fire department spokeswoman said. - PUB DATE: 2/27/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Houston Chronicle
The nation's high court agreed Monday to decide whether the tiny Mount Lemmon Fire District -- and any other small government employer -- is exempt from age-discrimination laws.
In a brief order, the U.S. Supreme Court said it wants to hear arguments by the district that it cannot be sued by two fire fighters who were let go by the district in 2009. - PUB DATE: 2/27/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Arizona Daily Sun
Sometimes cuddly teddy bears just don’t work in calming a child or young adult being transported by ambulance to the hospital.
Bill Carey, a firefighter/EMT with Newington Fire Department, was recently watching a TV program about autism that talked about stimulation devices.
An idea was born, and with a few inexpensive items purchased at Walmart, Carey invented a gadget that he hopes will work with patients who have autism, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), or anxiety. - PUB DATE: 2/27/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Seacoast Online
Boone County Fire Protection District 2 Trustee Kevin Stark has resigned his appointed position amid controversy over a profane sign he planted in front of his Marengo trucking and concrete business earlier this month.
The District 2 Board of Trustees accepted Stark’s resignation during a board meeting Monday. - PUB DATE: 2/27/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Rockford Register Star
Allentown’s firefighter union issued a letter threatening to pursue legal action against Mayor Ed Pawlowski as a result of his testimony Thursday. Pawlowski, who testified in his own defense during his federal corruption trial, said while under oath that he had his City Hall office swept for listening devices due to actions by the fire union. - PUB DATE: 2/26/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Allentown Morning Call
On a June day in 2017, Anchorage firefighter Ben Schultz took a horrific fall from a 100-foot-tall ladder.
While the Anchorage Fire Deptartment deemed its investigation of the situation inconclusive - stating they couldn't determine a specific cause of Schultz's fall, which apparently happened on a training day - one thing was certain: He was on the edge of death after suffering serious injuries, including broken bones, a punctured lung and severe brain damage. - PUB DATE: 2/26/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KTUU-TV NBC 2 Anchorage
A fire engine ran out of water before a second engine crew was able to re-establish a water supply to fight a fatal fire in Elgin this year, according to documents obtained by The Courier-News.
Elgin fire Chief David Schmidt said that, according to radio communications, firefighters at the scene were without water for 77 seconds while trying to extinguish the blaze in a mobile home in which a 63-year-old man died. - PUB DATE: 2/26/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Chicago Tribune
A “sarcastic” firefighter got a verbal reprimand recently for his response to a caller who asked firefighters to rescue a cat from a tree, according to the fire chief.
A young girl posted on social media on behalf of her mother that the firefighter who took the call was “extremely rude” and that he suggested the cat would eventually get out of the tree on its own: He said he had never seen a cat skeleton in a tree before, and that cats have nine lives. - PUB DATE: 2/26/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Worcester Telegram
Fighting fires is Alan Ziff's life's work. More than that, it is his passion. Ziff, 62, has been involved in fire fighting for 34 years. He quit counting the structure fires he battled when the number hit 1,000.
What makes someone run into a burning building, while the first reaction of most people (or rats, cockroaches and just about every other mobile organism) is to get the heck out of there?
"It takes a certain type of person," said Ziff, who is the chair of the Fire Science Department and Fire Academy director at Pueblo Community College. - PUB DATE: 2/26/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Pueblo Chieftain
In his more than 25 years as firefighter in Stamford, Connecticut, Capt. Jacques Roy thought he could handle anything – until the smoke cleared from a devastating fire that killed three children and their grandparents.
“I was the guy who couldn't hack it. I was the guy who needed help. I never thought it would be me. - PUB DATE: 2/23/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: NBC New York
Washington state's first career female firefighter has died of complications from cancer at the age of 64, the Bellevue Fire Department announced Wednesday.
Jeanette Woldseth, a retired fire captain with the department who became a professional firefighter in 1977, died Monday afternoon.
“Captain Woldseth was truly a ground-breaker, not only in the Bellevue Fire Department, but within the larger firefighter community,” said Bellevue Interim Fire Chief Todd Dickerboom. - PUB DATE: 2/23/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KOMO-TV ABC 4
For the second time in three years, Cal Fire is cracking down on alcohol consumption at its training academy in Amador County.
This time, it’s disciplining 14 firefighters who were supposed to stay sober during their six weeks of training at the Cal Fire Academy in Ione.
Cal Fire Deputy Director Michael Mohler announced the discipline on Thursday. - PUB DATE: 2/23/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Sacramento Bee
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday will consider for the second time in two years whether to choke off a critical funding stream for public-employee unions, potentially reducing organized labor’s influence in the workplace and at the ballot box. The nine justices will hear a challenge backed by anti-union groups to the legality of fees that workers who are not members of unions representing teachers, police, firefighters and certain other government employees must pay to help cover the costs of collective bargaining with state and local governments. - PUB DATE: 2/23/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Reuters
