The proposed acquisition of a quint truck faced stiff opposition from firefighters, while Mayor Bob O’Dekirk said the city needs to do something about “obscene” amounts of overtime spent in the department.
Firefighters at a City Council workshop meeting Monday said putting a quint, a dual-purpose truck, in downtown Station 1 would threaten public safety in the older section of the city. - PUB DATE: 2/6/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Herald-News
Mary Marchone never imagined giving nearly 50 years to the fire service when she was hired as an office assistant for Montgomery County, MD, Fire Rescue in 1969.
But over the course of nearly 50 years, that office assistant educated herself on fire safety and prevention and eventually became one of the most well regarded training specialists in the country. - PUB DATE: 2/6/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Firehouse
There’s no white cross on the side of GA 109 symbolizing a lost life. That’s what matters to Rick Rickerson.
It all happened so quickly.
A vehicle flips over and over on a desolate stretch of a Pike County highway.
A woman is trapped.
She’s not breathing.
Rickerson witnesses the horrific accident and his instincts automatically kick in. - PUB DATE: 2/6/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WUSA-TV 9 DC
Ronald Svec, a former city firefighter who was diagnosed with a 9/11-related cancer six months after he retired, has died, officials and relatives said Saturday.
The 63-year-old FDNY vet died Friday at the Jersey Shore University Medical Center after a more than 9-year battle with lung and spine cancer, said his wife of 34 years, Sharon Svec. - PUB DATE: 2/5/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: New York Daily News
Long before he became San Diego's fire chief, Brian Fennessy would wear his crusty, soot-covered helmet like a badge, proof he worked at one of the city's busiest fire stations. He thought it gave him credibility and earned him the respect of peers.
Now he knows his dirty gear harbored the toxins and carcinogens that haunt the scene of a fire -- and that they might well revisit him in the future as cancer. - PUB DATE: 2/5/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: San Diego Union-Tribune
VIDEO - A North Lauderdale Fire Rescue truck was involved in a serious crash Friday afternoon in Lauderhill, authorities said.
The crash was reported shortly after 3 p.m. in the area of Northwest 16th Street and State Road 7.
Authorities said the firetruck was transporting a high-priority pediatric patient to the hospital when the crash occurred. - PUB DATE: 2/5/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WPLG-TV ABC Local10.com - Miami & Fort Lauderdale
VIDEO - A family in Massachusetts nearly lost their house after their dog inadvertently turned on the kitchen stove while trying to grab some leftover pancakes. The incident was captured by the family's security cameras, and the footage was submitted to the Southwick Fire Department which shared the video on Facebook. - PUB DATE: 2/5/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WCVB-TV ABC 5 Boston
When Capt. Tia Morris turned 50, after about three decades in the Los Angeles Police Department, she became eligible to retire with nearly 90% of her salary.
But like many cops and firefighters in her position, the decision to keep working was a financial no-brainer, thanks to a program that allowed her to nearly double her pay by keeping her salary while also collecting her pension. - PUB DATE: 2/5/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police say officers perceived an 'imminent deadly threat' from a man holding a knife outside of a west Charlotte apartment complex Friday afternoon. The man was shot by officers and later died at the hospital from his injuries.
The incident happened just before 1:30 p.m. Friday afternoon at an apartment complex along the 3200 block of Timberbrook Drive near Tuckaseegee Park. - PUB DATE: 2/5/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WBTV-TV Channel 3
Days after the head of a Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department advocacy group for female firefighters issued a resignation letter, charging lax attitudes toward sexual harassment, the chief says he doesn’t believe the department has major issues and that he has no plans to resign.
“We take all claims seriously of bullying, harassment and retaliation,” Fire Chief Richard Bowers said at a Thursday afternoon news conference. - PUB DATE: 2/2/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WTOP-AM 1500 Washington
Craig Wohlitka told a Broward courtroom Wednesday that he is still haunted by the dying nursing home residents he tried to save as they sweltered in a building with no air conditioning in the aftermath of Hurricane Irma. In a span of about three hours on Sept. 13, the Hollywood firefighter/paramedic and fellow crew members treated two critically ill residents. - PUB DATE: 2/2/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel & SouthFlorida.com
Fire crews confront the opioid epidemic daily in the most personal of ways.
They tend to the users who can't stay awake. They administer naloxone, the reversal drug that brings addicts back from a life-threatening overdose. And they answer the call when an unresponsive person is found in a parked car, a gas station bathroom or a neighborhood — impoverished or affluent. - PUB DATE: 2/2/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Arizona Republic, AZCentral.com & KPNX-TV NBC 12 Phoenix
In one day, 53 firefighters packed up two fire houses and left behind the stations they knew and loved. That day, Jan. 23, Vancouver’s two new fire stations were deemed complete — complete enough, anyway, to unlock the doors and put the state-of-the-art facilities into service.
“It’s definitely still a work in progress,” said Vancouver firefighter and paramedic Pete Adams. - PUB DATE: 2/2/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Vancouver Columbian
I had just backed out of a parking space and was adjusting my seatbelt when I noticed that a car parked across from me had its backup lights on. Feeling certain that the driver would notice my car right behind his, I was not concerned. That is, until the car started backing up, right toward me. I tapped the horn, but the car kept coming. - PUB DATE: 2/2/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: FireChief.com
Barrington officials are suing a Canadian trucking company over the cleanup of a chemical spill last year, alleging firefighters unwittingly handled a hazardous chemical that damaged their equipment after being told the material was vegetable oil.
The spill happened shortly after 11:30 p.m. March 7, when a semitrailer belonging to Xan Systems Inc. - PUB DATE: 2/1/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Chicago Tribune
Robert Lay, the town’s fire chief since 2013, was recently placed on paid administrative leave by selectmen but said Tuesday he’d be willing to come back to work.
For that to happen, however, Lay said he would like to see his contract renegotiated and a mixup over his health insurance costs cleared up. - PUB DATE: 2/1/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Newburyport Daily News
FirstNet nationwide contractor AT&T today launched a new visual brand that will be associated with FirstNet services and products, according to AT&T and FirstNet officials. FirstNet will continue to use its existing logo to designate organizational activities, as opposed to products and services that subscribers can buy. - PUB DATE: 2/1/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Urgent Communications
Weeks after a tragic fire on Bowdoin Street in Providence, a firefighter who was trapped inside a burning building is speaking to Eyewitness News.
In the early morning hours of Jan. 6, more than 100 firefighters filled Bowdoin Street as they battled flames that extended to several homes. Providence firefighters Dan Rinaldi and Jay LaSalle had just finished a check inside one of the homes, so they decided to head into another. - PUB DATE: 2/1/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WPRI-TV Providence 12
Six months after severe flooding caused an estimated $10 million in damages at Burton Barr Central Library, Phoenix officials have finished a personnel investigation and decided to fire, demote or suspend five more employees.
That brings the total number of employees disciplined for the disaster to 11. - PUB DATE: 2/1/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Arizona Republic, AZCentral.com & KPNX-TV NBC 12 Phoenix
The FDNY is no longer just a boy’s club.
Two women will be sworn into top positions in the department at FDNY headquarters in Brooklyn Wednesday, a historic moment for the male-dominated agency.
Laura Kavanagh will be named the department’s first deputy commissioner while Elizabeth Cascio — who has served for more than three decades — is the department’s chief of staff. - PUB DATE: 1/31/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: New York Daily News
