Mayor Dennis Hanwell and City Law Director Gregory Huber are asking City Council to consider instituting a mandatory retirement age of 65 for the city's police and fire chiefs. The age restriction would also be considered for all city police officers and firefighters, pending discussions with the safety forces' unions.
- PUB DATE: 9/27/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Cleveland Plain Dealer & Cleveland.com

As his motorcycle careened out of control on a southern Indiana highway, Brandon Anderson said a silent prayer and prepared for the worst. The lieutenant with the Fishers Fire Department and a high school buddy were on their way to Lake Cumberland in Kentucky on a summer day in 2016 when a truck in the right lane of U.
- PUB DATE: 9/27/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Indianapolis Star

Officials at a Cecil Township fire department accepted the resignation of its chief Tuesday following outrage over his posting of a racial slur on social media, according to a statement posted on the township website. Ron Zombeck, president of Cecil Township Volunteer Fire Company No. 2 in Muse, said that the resignation of Paul Smith was accepted at noon Tuesday in light of outrage over a Facebook comment by Smith in response to the Pittsburgh Steelers' decision not to take the field Sunday for the national anthem.
- PUB DATE: 9/27/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

Cranston’s deputy fire chief, who is also the department’s union president, faced a Kent County judge Tuesday on charges that he punched and assaulted a fellow firefighter while on duty. Paul Valletta, 59, of Warwick, was arrested by Rhode Island State Police on Sept. 10 following a heated incident at the Scituate Avenue firehouse the day before.
- PUB DATE: 9/27/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WJAR-TV NBC 10 Providence

In early September, the Trump administration announced plans to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. The policy was originally introduced in 2012 by the Obama administration. In short, the policy has made it possible for nearly 800,000 immigrant children, known as dreamers, to live in the U.
- PUB DATE: 9/27/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: FireRescue1

A former Mosinee Fire Department EMT has died - 14 years after he suffered crippling injuries when his ambulance rolled over, according to the fire department. Matt Deicher died Saturday. The ambulance rolled over on state Highway 39 in Marathon County in July 2003 as Deicher and two other EMTs were transporting a patient to the hospital.
- PUB DATE: 9/26/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WAOW-TV ABC 9-Wausau

Brad Goodroad found a love for fighting fires while working construction. He developed an interest after talking to another construction worker’s father, who was a full-time firefighter. Growing up in a small South Dakota town with a volunteer fire department, Goodroad hadn’t ever considered firefighting as a full-time job.
- PUB DATE: 9/26/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Sioux Falls Argus Leader

Twenty years after the city of New York turned its back on Tracy Allen Lee, the FDNY emergency medical technician was honored Monday for the selfless act that ultimately took her life. In November of 1989, Lee was barely two years into her career when she treated a patient with Aids while responding to a call.
- PUB DATE: 9/26/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WPIX-TV PIX 11

A Superior Court judge questioned new East Greenwich Town Manager Gayle Corrigan Friday about the circumstances surrounding her hiring and her decision to fire a firefighter because he lacked paperwork showing he was certified. Judge Susan E. McGuirl asked Corrigan if she knew the Town Council planned to name her acting town manager before the council made the move in executive session June 19.
- PUB DATE: 9/26/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Providence Journal

The man who fatally shot a Prince George’s County firefighter answering a 911 call died last week, according to his attorney and his sister. Darrell Lumpkin, 63, had suffered a stroke and was in the hospital for a few weeks before being released, said Lumpkin’s attorney, Brian K. McDaniel. About a week later, Lumpkin died of a heart condition, McDaniel said.
- PUB DATE: 9/26/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Washington Post

As Buster Snow watched flames jump from his burning SUV to the back of his and his neighbor's adjoining home, the 42-year-old Wilmington man wondered where the fire department was. He remembers seeing ambulance workers and police officers watching the fire that afternoon, but Engine No. 3, the Wilmington Fire Department pumper engine stationed less than five blocks from his home, was nowhere in sight.
- PUB DATE: 9/25/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Wilmington News Journal (Delaware Online)

State overseers of the city have asked a a Superior Court judge to reconsider his shutdown of a move to lay off 50 city firefighters, saying the city can’t afford their salaries. The state filed its motion last week, asking Judge Julio Mendez to reconsider his late August ruling preventing the layoffs.
- PUB DATE: 9/25/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Press of Atlantic City

Don Oliver was just 2 years old when he had his first encounter with firefighters, but it was a pairing that lasted a lifetime. It all started when Oliver’s mother had the toddler stand near the Christmas tree for a New Year’s Eve photograph in his hometown of St. Paul, Minnesota. Oliver said he decided to imitate his dad by flicking one of the bulbs on the tree while his mother changed the film.
- PUB DATE: 9/25/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Wilson Times

Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman said Friday she was “shocked” at another round of allegations of sex in a city firehouse because the issue was “very clearly addressed” earlier this year. Months after claims of sexual misconduct, city officials are investigating allegations that a firefighter violated department policy in August by having sex at a fire station.
- PUB DATE: 9/25/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Las Vegas Review-Journal

VIDEO - A northern Michigan fire department may soon get some worldwide recognition. The city of Manistee Fire Department is the oldest operating firehouse in the state of Michigan. Firefighters and city officials have now applied to the Guinness World They hope to get recognized as the ‘Oldest Continuously Manned Fire Station' in the world.
- PUB DATE: 9/25/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WGTU-TV Up North Live

Former Canandaigua Fire Chief Mark Marentette has filed a complaint against the City of Canandaigua, saying his constitutional right to a fair hearing was violated. The suit seeks compensatory and punitive damages that include compensation for the loss of reputation and back and future pay. Marentette, who was terminated from his position in April, is also seeking reinstatement as Fire Chief.
- PUB DATE: 9/22/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: RochesterFirst.com

A fired East Greenwich firefighter testified Wednesday that he learned of his termination during an emotional late-night call from his brother. James Perry said he was in bed when his brother, William Perry, called his cellphone around 11:30 p.m. on Aug. 19. “He said, ‘I got an email you were terminated tonight,’” James Perry said.
- PUB DATE: 9/22/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Providence Journal

San Bernardino County Fire’s union has put undisclosed sums of money into the campaign opposing the city’s proposed half-cent sales tax for public safety, the Daily Press has learned. The contribution by Professional Firefighters Union, Local 935 — confirmed recently by the organization’s president and by the taxpayer group leading the anti-effort — forges a potentially awkward dynamic moving forward since the union represents one of two reported agency benefactors of the November ballot measure.
- PUB DATE: 9/22/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Daily Press

Eight decades after a New York City firefighter's death, his family says the Fire Department needs to finally acknowledge his sacrifice — and they're ready to take their case to court. Firefighter Thomas O'Brien responded to a two-alarm blaze on W. 26th St. in October 1935. He returned to Engine Company 3, and was found dead in his bed at the W.
- PUB DATE: 9/22/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: NY Daily News

Several escaped a burning apartment home Thursday morning, just three months after Springfield firefighters installed smoke alarms in the structure.  The smoke alarms sounded, notifying residents in two first-floor apartment of a fire that engulfed the second floor apartment Thursday morning. During a safety canvass in June, firefighters installed a new smoke alarm and replaced a dead battery in another alarm in that building.
- PUB DATE: 9/22/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Firehouse.com