If you’re in need of immediate medical attention in New York state and a less qualified first responder appears on your doorstep, you may have to wait for someone more qualified to transport you to the hospital.
But there are some people in Niagara County — and elsewhere in the state — who are trying to change that. - PUB DATE: 7/31/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Lockport Journal
Both men were aspiring law enforcement officers, studying criminal justice at Palomar College. Then their career paths diverged.
One was arrested earlier this month on suspicion of setting an Encinitas church and school on fire, and the other lauded for working undercover to help catch him. Tyler Carender, 20, is charged with causing more than a half-million dollars in damage to St. - PUB DATE: 7/31/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: FireRescue1
Chief Tom Jenkins, Rogers (Ark.) Fire Department, was installed July 27 as president and chairman of the board of the International Association of Fire Chiefs (IAFC).
Chief Jenkins will lead the association’s 18-member board of directors. He will serve as the association’s primary spokesman on national and international issues, testify on behalf of the organization at Congressional hearings and serve as the association’s representative dignitary. - PUB DATE: 7/28/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: International Association of Fire Chiefs
The chief of the Honolulu Fire Department filed a police report to try and find out who leaked a confidential HFD document related to the massive Marco Polo blaze, Hawaii News Now has learned. The document, a log of dispatch calls during the fire response, included confidential access codes to the Kapiolani Boulevard building. - PUB DATE: 7/28/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KHNL/KGMB-TV Hawaii News Now
A New Hampshire fire chief who died in the line of duty more than 63 years ago will finally be honored this year for making the ultimate sacrifice.
Winnisquam fire Chief Chester Brickett will receive posthumously the highest honor that can be bestowed upon a firefighter. Just this year, State Fire Marshal J. - PUB DATE: 7/28/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Concord Monitor
The Menlo Park Fire Protection District has an overtime problem.
The district has two firefighters who last year received more in overtime pay than regular pay. And in the same year, three firefighters made more than the fire chief, two battalion chiefs, a deputy fire chief and division chief of operations, who do not get overtime, according to district records. - PUB DATE: 7/28/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Mercury News
A group of four New York firefighters were recorded lifting a small car out of the way of their truck so they could reach a nearby emergency.
J.D. Closser posted a video to YouTube on Thursday showing four New York City Fire Department firefighters from lifting a parked Car2Go vehicle up onto the curb so their truck could get around it en route to an emergency. - PUB DATE: 7/28/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: UPI
An Akron man is accused of killing nine people in two deadly house fires in his neighborhood.
Now, prosecutors say, Stanley Ford should pay with his life.
Summit County prosecutors are seeking the death penalty against Ford, they announced Thursday during a press conference.
“Never before in Summit County history has one man been charged for the murders of nine people,” said Chief Prosecutor Margaret Scott, who was flanked by enlarged images of the two fire-ravaged houses. - PUB DATE: 7/28/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Akron Beacon Journal
Firefighters responding to a crash in the South Shore neighborhood found themselves under fire early Thursday, and their fire truck was struck by a bullet.
Neighbors near 79th and Yates were drawn out of their homes by intense arguing around 2:30 a.m., and then they became witnesses to a crime.
Police said the incident began with a two-car crash. - PUB DATE: 7/27/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: CBS Chicago
The city's fire commissioner blasted construction workers for taking 90 minutes to report a fire that destroyed a six-story building in Dorchester last month and said city officials are working on new safety standards for buildings under construction -- particularly those with highly flammable wood frames. - PUB DATE: 7/27/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Boston Herald
On the stormy evening of Saturday, Aug. 13, 2016, multiple lightning strikes ignited the roof of the Mount Pleasant Place retirement complex in Monroe, Ohio. Monroe Fire Department’s first responding crew acted with courage and expertise to save the lives of senior citizens trapped on the top floor, directly under the burning roof. - PUB DATE: 7/27/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: International Association of Fire Chiefs
Richmond firefighters and police officers anticipating that long-promised raises would appear in their paychecks this week were told Tuesday that they may have to wait until September.
They will still receive the additional money as back pay, but union officials say they’re worried that some employees may have been counting on receiving the raises as planned. - PUB DATE: 7/27/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Richmond Times-Dispatch
One person is dead and seven others injured -- three of whom are in critical condition -- after the Fire Ball ride at the Ohio State Fair broke apart in mid-air Wednesday night, the Ohio State Highway Patrol said.
The deceased is an 18-year-old male, according to fire department officials.
The Grant Medical Center in Columbus has admitted three patients, hospital spokesperson Mark Hopkins told ABC News. - PUB DATE: 7/27/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: ABC News
Each day, police and firefighters set out to keep their communities safe, and the response during a recent fire displayed the courage and unselfishness of the city's first responders.
Several were honored during a recent City Council meeting for their heroic actions to save the lives of numerous people during a large apartment fire at the Lake in the Woods complex. - PUB DATE: 7/26/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: nwi.com
The IAFC Board of Directors has issued a call to action for fire service leaders to urge governors in their states to opt into FirstNet.
“We urge IAFC members and state fire chiefs associations to make their voices heard and participate in the process to recommend to governors that they should allow FirstNet to build out the radio access network (RAN) in the state and to not opt-out and build out their own RANs,” the board said in a statement adopted July 24 in Charlotte, N. - PUB DATE: 7/26/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: International Association of Fire Chiefs
A teenager came into the firehouse at 6500 Michigan Avenue on Monday night looking for a soda, and walked out with a paramedic’s purse and keys to a firefighter’s pickup.
The burglary happened around 7:30 p.m. during a shift change as emergency medical crews were talking outside the station in the Carondelet neighborhood. - PUB DATE: 7/26/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Concord Fire Chief Mark Cotreau will become the next fire chief in Rye, New Hampshire.
Selectmen in the seacoast community approved a three-year contract July 24 paying Cotreau $83,200 annually, according to Rye Town Administrator Michael Magnant.
His first day on the job is Sept. 11.
“The two words we kept hearing were ‘integrity’ and ‘honesty,’” Magnant said of responses from people the town interviewed during a background check on Cotreau. - PUB DATE: 7/26/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Wickedlocal.com
The International Association of Fire Chiefs (IAFC) and Pierce Manufacturing Inc., an Oshkosh Corporation (NYSE: OSK) company, today announced the 2017 winners of the annual “IAFC Fire Chief of the Year” awards at Fire-Rescue International (FRI) in Charlotte, N.C. Career Fire Chief Marvin Riggins of the Macon-Bibb County Fire Department in Macon, Georgia and Volunteer Fire Chief Brian Wade of the North Lenoir Fire & Rescue Department in Kinston, N. - PUB DATE: 7/26/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: International Association of Fire Chiefs
A vintage military plane on its way to an Air Force exercise in Washington state crashed Monday in Henderson, but the pilot survived with minor injuries and no one on the ground was injured, authorities said.
The BAC-167 Strikemaster jet crashed around noon, half a mile south of Volunteer Boulevard, shortly after taking off from the Henderson Executive Airport and caught fire, Clark County Department of Aviation spokeswoman Christine Crews said. - PUB DATE: 7/25/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Las Vegas Review-Journal
At least two Detroit firefighters were diagnosed with pertussis - better known as whooping cough.
Detroit Police Department officials say both were treated and cleared, but the problem is - FOX 2 learned the fire fighters were exposed on June 28 and continued to work with the public, and several other firefighters within the department. - PUB DATE: 7/25/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: FOX43.com
