Orange County supervisors said Tuesday they plan to launch an independent investigation of the Fire Authority’s response to the Canyon 2 Fire, suggesting the initial reaction by first responders might have allowed the blaze to grow big enough to consume 9,200 acres and destroy 78 structures.
“(The response) took something that very well may have been limited, to a total catastrophe,” said Supervisor Shawn Nelson. - PUB DATE: 11/1/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Orange County Register
The Peoria Department could be down a truck and 11 firefighters as a way to ease the city’s budget woes.
Union leaders say that would compromise the safety of both residents within the River City and the 195 firefighters employed by the city. Instead of cutting, Ryan Brady, the head of the local union, wants the city to maintain the status quo: no additional money but no permanent cuts. - PUB DATE: 11/1/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Peoria Journal Star
In a letter to the editor, the president of an Ohio-based PPE manufacturer is refuting claims that firefighter turnout gear may be hazardous for those donning it for protection.
LION president Stephen Schwartz sent the letter to the editor of the Columbus Dispatch, which published an article entitled "Firefighters' gear may be hazardous" on Oct. - PUB DATE: 11/1/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: FireRescue1
A group of city firefighters will skip a ceremony for their colleagues this week, claiming that it’s hypocritical for the mayor to want to congratulate them after expressing such critical views of their union.
In an email, Battalion Chief Tucker Wiley wrote that the 16 members of the D platoon have decided not to attend the fire department’s annual awards ceremony on Thursday because of the stance that Mayor Joseph M. - PUB DATE: 11/1/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Watertown Daily Times
Frank Fowlston was known to work as many as 100 hours a week.
That may be why his son, Frank Fowlston Jr., remembers his father as one of the "hardest working men" in his life.
Fowlston, 60, died Monday morning in a fire at his home on 108 County Route 21 in Plymouth, according to Fowlston Jr.
Fowlston was the Chief of the Plymouth Volunteer Fire Department. - PUB DATE: 10/31/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin
The state's highest court won't let homeowners burned out by the Yarnell Hill fire sue the state for negligence.
And that, according to an attorney for those affected, has bad implications for others who own property throughout the state.
Without comment, the Arizona Supreme Court has spurned a request by the lawyers for those who lost buildings in the 2013 blaze that they should be able to make their case to a jury that the state, which was trying to contain the wildfire that started on public lands, also had a duty to protect their property. - PUB DATE: 10/31/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Arizona Daily Sun
Thirty-four states in the U.S. have passed legislation recognizing that firefighters face an elevated risk for some types of cancers and offering varying levels of death benefits to surviving family, with a few even providing for disability payments to affected members who become too ill to continue working. - PUB DATE: 10/31/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Fort Smith Southwest Times Record
Washington, D.C., joined other area jurisdictions in using a potentially life-saving app that alerts people who know CPR to the location of people suffering heart attacks.
People who have the PulsePoint app on their phones are alerted to 911 calls for cardiac arrest within a quarter mile of their location when they are in a city or county that uses the app. - PUB DATE: 10/31/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: NBC Washington
On Saturday, the people coming up to Jeffersonville's firefighters at the Save the Fieldhouse Craft Bazaar weren't grimly bringing up the opioid crisis or devastating fires. Instead, they were smiling and laughing with the city employees.
The cause of their joy, said fire Sgt. Justin Ames, was a lighthearted prank war between Jeffersonville's fire and police departments that started the Tuesday before and soon became a local sensation. - PUB DATE: 10/31/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Jeffersonville Evening News & New Albany Tribune
Clark County officials are looking to national authorities for guidance on how safety standards might be improved in light of the mass shooting Oct. 1 at the Route 91 Harvest Festival. And the two leading associations that craft the safety policies adopted by most municipalities across the country are looking right back at Las Vegas. - PUB DATE: 10/30/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Las Vegas Sun
The turnout gear that firefighters are encouraged to wear for protection against toxic chemicals at fire scenes could itself be a hazard, according to a lawyer who's demanding a study be done for a group with "unusually high rates of cancer."
Cincinnati lawyer Robert A. Bilott notified U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt last month that he intends to sue the government unless work begins on developing the study. - PUB DATE: 10/30/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: FireRescue1
Two fire trucks sustained "extensive damage" after crashing into each other at the intersection of Passaic and Calhoun streets Saturday morning, city fire Battalion Chief Todd Willever said.
Eight firefighters from two companies sustained minor injurers after a Trenton ladder truck and a Hamilton engine collided around 10:30 a. - PUB DATE: 10/30/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: NJ.com
Firefighters were able to resuscitate three children after rescuing them from a house fire Sunday morning.
The Prince George’s County Fire Department reports the fire occurred just after 7 a.m., at a home in the 4700 block of Alcon Dr. in Temple Hills. A woman called 911 and said that her house was on fire and her children were trapped on the second floor. - PUB DATE: 10/30/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WJZ-TV CBS 13 Baltimore
A private ambulance company about to begin service in Pend Oreille County says they're being told not to respond to calls local fire volunteers can handle on their own.
One fire chief said it's a matter of saving resources, but the company says it won't be able to survive.
When Pend Oreille paramedics begin service in Pend Oreille county, they will be the only first responders licensed to transport patients requiring advanced life support. - PUB DATE: 10/30/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KXLY.com
Five people are dead following a large house fire in Seneca County between Bascom and Fostoria on SR 18 Thursday morning.
So far, fire officials identified one of the five victims, 19-year-old Austin Rainey. Rainey was a cadet for the Bascom Fire Volunteer Department.
The identities, ages and genders of the remaining four victims were not identified, though Seneca County Public Information Officer Dean Henry confirmed a family of three adults, including Rainey, and two children lived at the home. - PUB DATE: 10/27/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WTOL CBS Toledo
Stanislaus Consolidated Fire Chief Rick Weigele has been dismissed after only five months with the fire protection district.
That information comes from Weigele himself. Stanislaus Consolidated's board members have not disclosed what action they have taken against the chief or the reasons for the action. - PUB DATE: 10/27/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Firehouse
Tensions between the Kansas City, Kansas mayor and local firefighters hit a boiling point on Thursday afternoon in a battle that’s been brewing for years.
Robert Wing is a fire captain and official with the Local 64 Firefighter's Union. He says, he and other firefighters are ticked off that Mayor Mark Holland has repeatedly made statements about cutting the fire department in public settings. - PUB DATE: 10/27/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WDAF-TV Fox 4 Kansas City News
St. Tammany Parish Sheriff Randy Smith said Wednesday that the FBI has been brought in to help investigate the mysterious death of Nanette Krentel, who was found shot to death and badly burned in July.
Krentel, 49, was married to Steve Krentel, the chief of St. Tammany Fire Protection District No. 12. - PUB DATE: 10/27/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Baton Rouge Advocate
VIDEO - An 80-year-old movie clip has surfaced on the internet, and an old Minneapolis firefighter is getting well-deserved recognition online.
Mickey the Minneapolis Fire Cat used to live in the city’s Fire Station 10, where he loved to watch his fellow firefighters play dominoes when not rushing out to calls. - PUB DATE: 10/27/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WCCO-TV CBS 4
Mayor Karen Freeman-Wilson is no longer seeking to create public safety positions in which a person would perform both firefighting and police duties.
Freeman-Wilson first proposed the idea in 2015 and along with other city officials, including Samuel Abegg, who was then president of Gary Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 61, traveled to visit Kalamazoo, Michigan, to learn about its public safety department. - PUB DATE: 10/27/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Northwest Indiana Times (nwitimes.com)
