A little more than three months after the deadly Ghost Ship fire and with the investigative report still pending, the city’s first African American female fire chief Teresa Deloach Reed filed retirement papers Tuesday, days after her city pension vested, the city administrator said.
Reed, a 59-year-old Oakland resident, filed retirement paperwork Tuesday with an effective date of May 5, City Administrator Sabrina Landreth confirmed. - PUB DATE: 3/15/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: East Bay Times
The city of Lexington will pay firefighters $17.7 million for back overtime and pension.
The payment stems from a 2005 lawsuit filed by Lexington firefighters alleging that the city owed them money for overtime worked.
The details of the settlement are being worked out and must be approved, city and firefighter union officials said. - PUB DATE: 3/15/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Lexington Herald-Leader
To look around the Kingwood apartment of Robert Yarbrough is to know a man who found his calling.
"If I could be back at the fire station, I'd be back tomorrow," he said.
Yarbrough worked for the Houston Fire Department for 32 years, and he was there that fateful day in 2013 at the Southwest Inn on Rescue Truck 42. - PUB DATE: 3/15/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KHOU-TV CBS 11 Houston
A company officer repeatedly makes inappropriate postings to social media. Another gets into a physical altercation with a firefighter at the station. Yet another actively supports hazing of new firefighters. And another is arrested after getting into an argument with a police officer after a traffic stop. - PUB DATE: 3/15/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: FireRescue1
The Alaska House on Monday unanimously approved a bill to guarantee health coverage for family members of firefighters and law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty.
House Bill 23, sponsored by Anchorage Democratic Rep. Andy Josephson, is the latest attempt at passing such legislation, which died in the Senate during a special session last year. - PUB DATE: 3/15/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Alaska Dispatch News
PHOTOS - A Prince George's County firetruck tipped over Monday morning because of a sidewalk collapse, causing minor injuries to two volunteers who were in the truck.
Fire officials say the truck was "wetting down rekindle" from a house fire that had started Saturday night in the 4700 block of Oliver Street in Riverdale. - PUB DATE: 3/14/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WJLA-TV ABC 7 Washington
The hoverboard was plugged into an outlet by the front door next to an overstuffed chair, where a child sat.
The child's father was nearby, relaxing on a couch.
That's when both of them heard crackling noises and, saw smoke. Within moments, the hoverboard had "exploded fiercely," blocking their way out of the front door, said Fire Chief Brian Enterline. - PUB DATE: 3/14/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: PennLive
VIDEO - One volunteer was suspended and five paid part-time firefighters with the Westfield Fire Department were fired Monday after a video surfaced on Snapchat and showed a firefighter strapped to a backboard and being doused with water and covered with several condiments. KPRC then showed the video to Westfield Fire Chief Stephen Whitehead, who said it appears the incident took place at the department’s main fire station on Lauder Road. - PUB DATE: 3/14/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KPRC-TV NBC 2 Houston
The last three days had two Pike County EMS employees on pins and needles as they awaited answers regarding their suspension last week for helping a dog injured in a fatal wreck.
Nick Farmer and Tyler Wessel were placed on paid administrative leave after taking a seriously injured dog to a Portsmouth animal clinic for treatment after a Wednesday crash. - PUB DATE: 3/14/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Huber Heights Marion Star
Emmaus residents could pay 10 times more for firefighters' salaries if the latest court decision in a three-and-half-year legal battle proves to be the final word. The unique relationship between Emmaus and the borough's paid firefighters gives the latterthe ability to unionize under state law, a Commonwealth Court panel ruled Monday. - PUB DATE: 3/14/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Morning Call
The firefighter struck by a driver charged with DUI on his way to Friday's deadly fire in Harrisburg has died.
Chief Brian Enterline said Dennis DeVoe, a 21-year member of Harrisburg fire service, passed away this evening from injuries suffered Friday night while responding to the fire in the 2500 block of Lexington Street. - PUB DATE: 3/13/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: PennLive
Portland Fire & Rescue Chief Mike Myers, responding to citizen complaints, has suspended operations of an emergency medical team deployed with police at protests since the inauguration of President Donald Trump.
Myers acted because of complaints that emergency medical technicians were dressed identically to Portland police riot officers with whom they were embedded - though the Fire Bureau employees were unarmed. - PUB DATE: 3/13/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Portland Oregonian, Hillsboro Argus, Oregon Live.com
In the 1970s, firefighters called it "firehouse roulette."
Now, some 40 years later, some municipal leaders continue to gamble as they close down engine companies for budgetary reasons or during staffing shortages. The process, called "browning out," refers to the temporary closing, usually on a shift-by-shift basis, of one fire station or piece of apparatus. - PUB DATE: 3/13/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Worcester Telegram
After her home north of Hutchinson escaped destruction by only a few narrow feet in Monday’s wildfire, Danielle Tajchman joked that her pet cows had saved it.
After all, Scott and Danielle Tajchman had been heavily watering their lawn before the fire because their two pet cows had developed a taste for lawn grass. - PUB DATE: 3/13/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Wichita Eagle
The Hartford released its ranking of the 100 U.S. cities with the highest home fire risk this week.
According to The Hartford Home Fire Index, the top five cities are: Detroit, Michigan; Shreveport, Louisiana; Boston, Massachusetts; Flint, Michigan and Richmond, Virginia.
The index is based on an analysis of the U. - PUB DATE: 3/13/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: FireRescue1
A specialized team is credited with rescuing a DeKalb firefighter after he fell through the floor while battling a two alarm blaze in Panthersville.
The fire happened at Hidden Villas apartments in the 2900 block of Panthersville Road late Thursday night. Fire crews at the scene initially attempted an "offensive attack" of the flames but backed off as the fire grew. - PUB DATE: 3/10/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WXIA-TV NBC 11 Atlanta
Stationing firefighters and medics 24 hours a day at Trump Tower costs New York City taxpayers $4.5 million a year — none of which has been reimbursed to the FDNY, agency officials said Thursday at the City Council.
A pair of firefighters constantly monitors the alarm panel of President Donald Trump’s namesake building and investigates alerts, said FDNY chief of department James E. - PUB DATE: 3/10/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: NewsDay
The widow of a volunteer fire chief has won another shot at securing workers compensation benefits on a claim that her husband contracted fatal cancer from the smoke and diesel fumes he inhaled during decades on duty.
Cheryl Steele got that second chance Wednesday when a state Commonwealth Court panel ordered the state Workers Compensation Appeals Board to reconsider its refusal to award her benefits for the August 2011 death of her husband, Roy. - PUB DATE: 3/10/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: PennLIve
Mass-casualty training at Keesler Air Force Base two months ago gave Biloxi firefighters and police the chance to practice responding to a train crash.
The first-responders couldn’t know they would soon be responding to an actual train-charter bus crash that killed four people and critically injured eight of the 49 passengers. - PUB DATE: 3/10/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Sun Herald
Nearly a year after the village cut all eight of its paid firefighters, officials finally released documentation that drove that controversial decision — kind of.
When the village voted to go to an all-volunteer department last May, it claimed to have 300 volunteer firefighters, a number that was cited to justify the change. - PUB DATE: 3/10/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: NY Journal News (Lohud.com)
