VIDEO - The Mustang Fire Department is receiving a lot of praise online after video of one of their fire safety performances for a local elementary school went viral.
The Mustang Fire Department has become known for their entertaining and memorable skits they do to help kids remember tips for fire prevention. - PUB DATE: 10/17/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KFOR-TV NBC 4 Oklahoma City
I first met Alan Brunacini in the 1980s, when he was teaching one day of a weeklong leadership program I was attending in Massachusetts. We had lunch together that day and like most of the thousands of people who knew him, I was charmed by the man and his stories, his humor and his insights.
Over the years, our paths crossed again many times, as presenters at conferences, while attending events, and once when I was privileged to be invited to participate in his annual Baggers meeting in Phoenix. - PUB DATE: 10/17/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: FireRescue1
A contract firefighter who was driving a water tender truck was killed Monday morning when it went off the road and crashed in Napa County near the Nuns Fire, Cal Fire officials said.
The truck overturned about 6:50 a.m. on Oakville Grade, about two miles west of Highway 29. The driver was working the 48,000-acre Nuns Fire that's burning in Napa County, Cal Fire Chief David Shew said. - PUB DATE: 10/16/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KCRA.com
Former Phoenix Fire Chief, Alan Brunacini, has died Sunday.
Brunacini, who served as fire chief for 28 years, joined the Phoenix Fire Department in 1959. Prior to becoming fire chief in 1978, Brunacini held every sworn position in the organization including a firefighter, engineer, captain, battalion chief, and assistant chief, Phoenix Fire Chief Kara Kalkbrenner said in a Sunday statement. - PUB DATE: 10/16/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Arizona Republic, AZCentral.com
State officials say a Presho volunteer firefighter died of a medical condition at the scene of a weekend fire.
According to the South Dakota Fire Marshal's Office, 54-year-old Donald Manger died Saturday while working at a structure fire in rural Lyman County.
Authorities say Manger experienced a medical condition, then collapsed to the ground. - PUB DATE: 10/16/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KSFY.com
Santa Rosa firefighter Brandon Palmer has fought big blazes in his 20 years on the job, but the 81-hour shift he spent fighting the fire storm in his own neighborhood last week was still stunning.
"It's crazy to watch your hometown be annihilated by fire," he said, back at his Santa Rosa firehouse. "It just takes your breath away. - PUB DATE: 10/16/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Ventura County Star
VIDEO - Berkeley Fire Department received the call for help early Monday morning. They sent an engine north to Santa Rosa to help with what they thought was a "large grass fire."
When the strike team, made up of both Berkeley and San Francisco firefighters, arrived in Santa Rosa before sunrise, they were stunned to see the scope of the already massive Tubbs Fire. - PUB DATE: 10/16/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: SFGate.com
Don't let his age, cane, or hearing aid fool you.
"It's something inside of you. You gotta go you gotta go, said Glenn Brubaker.
He's 101 years old. He's been volunteering at the Urbana Volunteer Fire Department in Frederick County for more than 40 years.
"You don't get tired. Tired! I have never used that word in my life," said Glenn. - PUB DATE: 10/16/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WUSA-TV 9 DC
After four days of terrorizing Wine Country and surrounding regions, the Northern California wildfires on Thursday became the deadliest in state history, with 31 confirmed fatalities and more expected.
The most destructive of those, the Tubbs fire, killed at least 15 people, and new figures told of its destruction. - PUB DATE: 10/13/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: East Bay Times
By Christmas, all 855 members of the Cincinnati Fire Department will have received their custom-fitted bulletproof vests.
I'll repeat that -- slowly. Bullet. Proof. Vests.
If this is a new reality, it runs counter to how I have always viewed this honorable occupation. In my mind's eye, a firefighter is a hero who would climb a ladder and pluck Morris from a towering oak tree. - PUB DATE: 10/13/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Cincinnati Enquirer
A firefighter fell through a staircase and landed in the basement of a burning house off Lalor Street early Thursday, fire officials said.
The firefighter was on the first crew climbing to the second floor with a hose at a house on Benton Road at about 3:10 a.m., fire spokesman Capt. Ferdinand Mather said. - PUB DATE: 10/13/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: NJ.com
In a recent column about building character in young firefighters, I wrote that trust should be given to all members of the organization; that trust should be assumed unless violated. Trust should not have to be earned through popularity or individual achievement.
At least one reader took issue with this statement. - PUB DATE: 10/13/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: FireRescue1
City firefighters are being credited with saving the life of a suicidal man found with a rope around his neck on the top deck of the Elliot Hospital parking garage Thursday around 2 a.m.
“I looked across the top level, and I saw a man on the other side of the guardrail, on the opposite side of the garage from me,” 16-year veteran Lt. - PUB DATE: 10/13/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Manchester Union Leader
From the outside, they appeared to be the perfect family. He was an Ivy League-educated doctor; she was a congressional press aide. They had four beautiful children.
However, in 2011, on a trip home from Cape Cod, an argument began between Jerri Sparks and her now ex-husband. She said that's when the nightmare started. - PUB DATE: 10/13/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: 13WHAM.com
Massive wildfires sweeping through California have killed at least 26 people and damaged thousands of homes, businesses and other buildings, authorities said. Firefighters were still battling 22 wildfires in multiple counties as of Thursday morning. Intensified by strong winds, the flames have charred more than 170,000 acres of land, damaged or destroyed at least 3,500 structures and forced nearly 20,000 residents to evacuate, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. - PUB DATE: 10/12/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: ABC News
Massive wildfires sweeping through California have killed at least 23 people and damaged thousands of homes, businesses and other buildings, authorities said. Firefighters were still battling 22 wildfires in multiple counties as of Thursday morning. Intensified by strong winds, the flames have charred more than 170,000 acres of land, damaged or destroyed at least 3,500 structures and forced nearly 20,000 residents to evacuate, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. - PUB DATE: 10/12/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: ABC News
President Trump nominated Kirstjen Nielsen, a deputy to White House Chief of Staff John Kelly, to be Homeland Security secretary on Wednesday, filling the vacancy left by Kelly when he took his current post in late July.
"Ms. Nielsen has extensive professional experience in the areas of homeland security policy and strategy, cybersecurity, critical infrastructure, and emergency management," the White House said in a statement announcing the nomination. - PUB DATE: 10/12/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: USA Today
Superior Court Judge Julio Mendez ruled Wednesday that the state overseers will be able to cut the city’s Fire Department by 15 members as a cost-saving measure.
The cuts are not allowed to be made before Feb. 1, according to the court ruling.
"Upon careful consideration of the facts and legal arguments, the court is of the view that the plan and timeline for immediate reductions is problematic but it’s not impermissible by the Recovery Act," according to the 13-page ruling. - PUB DATE: 10/12/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Press of Atlantic City
The Fire District Board accepted Chief Buddy Emerson’s retirement request Wednesday amid allegations from the firefighters union that he endangered employees' lives during Hurricane Irma and acted recklessly as chief.
Emerson had submitted his retirement effective at the end of February, but the board, at a special meeting, unanimously accepted it effective immediately. - PUB DATE: 10/12/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: TCPalm
Shooting off fireworks in Ohio, a time-honored tradition of lawbreaking across the state, would become fully legal just in time for July 4, 2020, under a bill that passed the House on Wednesday.
For decades, Ohioans have been allowed to purchase fireworks but not legally set them off inside the state. - PUB DATE: 10/12/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Columbus Dispatch
