A Nara Visa volunteer firefighter died on Thursday after suffering burns trying to extinguish a fire that was more than seven miles long and three miles wide.
John Cammack, 74, of Nara Visa, was severely burned after falling from a fire engine during a "burn over" Wednesday night, said Nara Visa Fire Chief Gary Girard. - PUB DATE: 6/26/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Eastern New Mexico News
St. Louis firefighters had to rescue one of their own after he fell through a roof into flames in an attic Sunday morning.
The fire captain sustained first and second-degree burns on his face and hands. He was recovering at a hospital Sunday, according to Capt. Garon Mosby, spokesman for the St. Louis Fire Department. - PUB DATE: 6/26/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: St. Louis Post-Dispatch
A group of Arizona House lawmakers is launching an effort aimed at cutting the soaring costs to communities of police and fire pensions, with its leader warning that cities could end up declaring bankruptcy if legislators fail to act.
The new committee announced by House Speaker J.D. Mesnard comes just over a year after 70 percent of voters approved changes to the state's public safety pension plan designed to return it to solvency in 20 years. - PUB DATE: 6/26/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: U.S. News & Report
The city’s search for a full-time fire chief took a step backward this week.
Because of a clerical error, the Civil Service Commission will conduct a second set of interviews with seven candidates for the position instead of moving forward with the three finalists selected earlier this month.
According to the city attorney’s office, Columbus Human Resources Director Mike Oglevie sent a memo containing 13 of the 17 interview questions to six of the seven candidates prior to the June 6 interviews with the Civil Service Commission, leaving one candidate off the list of recipients. - PUB DATE: 6/26/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Columbus Telegram
The city, county and a local fire district recently sued several major pharmaceutical companies and a medical distribution firm, charging them with damaging the local economy by promoting the use of opioid painkillers they knew to be dangerous and extremely addictive.
The 52-page complaint was filed in Superior Court late last month by two private law firms on behalf of Stockton, San Joaquin County and the Montezuma Fire Protection District, which serves unincorporated portions of southeast Stockton. - PUB DATE: 6/26/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Recordnet.com
Tuesday night the majority of the Wills Point volunteer department walked off in solidarity with Chief Ed Leipply. Leipply's family says he is touched by the loyalty, but adds the decision to walk off was up to each of the volunteers. Hee never commanded or asked them to do so.
Dylan Hatten says he's always wanted to serve his community. - PUB DATE: 6/23/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KHOU-TV CBS 11 Houston
Jeff Gillespie can't pinpoint exactly when blood stopped flowing to his brain.
The veteran Poudre Fire Authority firefighter doesn't know exactly how long he stopped breathing, either. It's impossible to say precisely how long his world went black that November afternoon when he was essentially hanged during a training accident. - PUB DATE: 6/23/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Coloradoan
Kevin Bell, the first Hartford firefighter killed in the line of duty in four decades, had alcohol and a primary substance found in marijuana in his system when he died fighting a fast-spreading house fire, a state toxicology report reviewed by The Courant reveals. But the seven-member panel convened by the city to investigate the death and problems within the fire department never received the toxicology results, according to Hartford Fire Marshal Roger Martin, who was chairman of the board of inquiry. - PUB DATE: 6/23/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Hartford Courant
A 4 percent raise is in store for the city’s emergency medical technicians and paramedics, the largest increase in its 45-year history, officials said Wednesday.
Mayor Mike Duggan unveiled the three-year collective bargaining agreement amendment alongside Fire Commissioner Eric Jones and fire union officials outside St. - PUB DATE: 6/23/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Detroit News
After several delays to try and attract more FDNY candidates, the filing for the city’s upcoming firefighter exam has finally closed — with historic gains in the number of African-Americans, Asians, Latinos and women who applied.
The FDNY had planned to close filing on April 25 for the highly competitive firefighter entrance exam that will be given in the fall. - PUB DATE: 6/23/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: New York Daily News
In the wake of the Grenfell Tower fire in London, where 79 people died or are presumed dead and many more were injured, serious concerns and questions around flammability of exterior cladding, the lack of fire sprinklers and the notion of “shelter in place,” among other subjects, have been brought to the forefront by the news media and the public at large. - PUB DATE: 6/22/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: National Fire Protection Association
Hundreds of police officers and firefighters from across the Midwest joined community members in Kalamazoo Wednesday to honor Comstock Township Fire Chief Ed Switalski, who was hit by a vehicle and killed last week while responding to a call.
It took firefighters and police officers about half an hour to file into the Wings Event Center for the funeral. - PUB DATE: 6/22/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WOOD-TV NBC 8 Grand Rapids
Except for a Vallejo firefighter who got a $2 million payout for wrongful termination, the list of California’s highest-earning public employees for 2016 is dominated by medical personnel – surgeons, physicians, psychiatrists, hospital directors – and a few investment officers from CalPERS, the world’s largest public employee retirement system. - PUB DATE: 6/22/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Orange County Register
Four employees of the Billerica Fire Department have been handed lengthy suspensions and one demoted following a town investigation into a months-long sex scandal, first reported in April.
"All employees involved have acknowledged violations of the rules and regulations of the department and have accepted the discipline that has been imposed by the town," said Town Manager John Curran, in a statement posted to the town's website Wednesday. - PUB DATE: 6/22/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Republican
A poorly performing computer program at the Knox County E-911 Center is placing law enforcement officers and firefighters in danger by depriving them of updated information on emergency calls, authorities said Wednesday.
The $6.2 million Intergraph Computer Aided Dispatch program went online two years ago and has been problematic ever since. - PUB DATE: 6/22/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Knoxville News-Sentinel
The chief of the McDonald Volunteer Fire Department was killed in an explosion in West Virginia.
Scott Albertini, died Tuesday morning at the Midland Resource Recovery plant in Barbour County, West Virginia.
Two people were killed and one person was injured in an explosion at the same plant last month. - PUB DATE: 6/21/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KDKA-TV CBS 2 Pittsburgh
Thirty-two members of the Chicago Fire Department’s brass resigned their exempt positions Monday and returned to rank-and-file status in a fight over pay and benefits that will cost taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars.
The bosses will return to their career service ranks of battalion chief and, in one case, paramedic field chief, but will continue to “act up” in their exempt positions. - PUB DATE: 6/21/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times
The city of Houston is gearing up to play hardball with its firefighters union in advance of contract mediation by passing less favorable employment terms that would take effect if the firefighters' current agreement lapses next week.
The changes subject to City Council approval Wednesday would come a month after the fire union declared an impasse in negotiations with the city. - PUB DATE: 6/21/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Houston Chronicle
A Kansas City firefighter is awake from a coma after suffering a heat stroke, and doctors are trying to determine if energy drinks may have played a part in his condition.
The Kansas City Fire Department says he was participating in a training exercise last Saturday, June 10, when he suffered a heat stroke. - PUB DATE: 6/21/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KCTV-TV CBS 5
The Los Angeles Fire Department could soon seek federal permission to fly drones, a tool that officials say could help them track down missing hikers, gauge the risks in burning buildings and search confined spaces. A Los Angeles City Council committee voted Tuesday to allow the department to start seeking Federal Aviation Administration authorization to use “unmanned aerial systems,” despite objections from groups concerned about privacy rights. - PUB DATE: 6/21/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
