A firefighter is dead and another is badly injured following a wreck in Lafayette County, MO.
This accident happened shortly after 6 p.m. on Monday evening. It happened on Highway E just north of Wheatley Road, which is north of Interstate 70 in Lafayette County.
The area is just south of Mayview, MO. - PUB DATE: 6/20/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KCTV-TV CBS 5 Kansas City
The Santa Paula City Council on Monday approved a resolution that, once finalized and in effect, effectively disbands its 114-year-old fire department.
The tax-sharing agreement sets the terms for getting coverage from the larger Ventura County Fire Protection District. The district is paid for from property taxes, and Santa Paula will turn over 79 percent of what it gets once it joins, according to the agreement. - PUB DATE: 6/20/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Ventura County Star
One of the seven U.S. sailors killed on the USS Fitzgerald after a collision with a container ship off the coast of Japan has been identified as Dakota Kyle Rigsby, a Fluvanna County volunteer firefighter.
The U.S. Navy said Sunday night that 19-year-old Rigsby, a gunner’s mate seaman from Palmyra, was among the dead. - PUB DATE: 6/20/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Lynchburg News & Advance
For the third time in less than a year, the City Council has rejected a contract settlement with district fire chiefs in a continuing dispute if the current chiefs should be required to live in Springfield.
A motion to give final passage to the contract failed by way of a 6-6 tie vote, needing seven votes to pass. - PUB DATE: 6/20/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Republican
Seven of them were huddled next to a couch on the second floor. Another was just 10 feet from the front door. Eight others were found together wrapped in a rug, apparently having fallen all at once when the floor under them collapsed. They, like all the other victims of the Ghost Ship warehouse fire, died of smoke inhalation, their lungs and airways clogged with soot. - PUB DATE: 6/20/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: East Bay Times
The Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office is investigating the death Saturday of Fire Chief Abraham Pitre, said Perth Amboy Mayor Wilda Diaz in a statement early Sunday morning.
Diaz called the 44-year-old Pitre's death "sudden" and that the "circumstances of the incident remain under investigation by the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office. - PUB DATE: 6/19/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: MyCentralJersey.com
When Columbus officials rolled out a plan to cut the number of paramedics on trucks responding to medical emergencies, they said it would save on the city Division of Fire’s bulging overtime budget.
Six months later, overtime in the division is on track to bust its budget for the sixth time in seven years and reach its highest level in years, but fire Chief Kevin O’Connor said the plan is working. - PUB DATE: 6/19/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Columbus Dispatch
The park seems out of place, a flat swath of green grass and American flags tucked amid Savannah Highway's bustling corridor of strip malls, car dealerships and gas stations.
Thousands of motorists flood past each day navigating the snarl of congestion that defines this stretch of road. As they hurry by, the spot where dozens of men once waged the battle of their lives becomes a mere flash of scenery on a suburban landscape. - PUB DATE: 6/19/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Charleston Post and Courier
Dany Cotton is used to receiving bad news in the small hours. As commissioner of the London fire brigade, she is one of three senior officers on the brigade’s rota who will answer a call alerting them to a major incident. Last Tuesday night it was Cotton’s turn on rota. She was six months into her job running the country’s largest fire service and had almost three decades as a firefighter under her belt. - PUB DATE: 6/19/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Guardian
Two firefighters assigned to the city’s fire department heavy rescue truck are sent out several times a day on all kinds of calls, from helping out senior citizens injured in falls to victims suffering from heart attacks or are involved in a serious motor vehicle crashes.
But the rescue truck soon won’t be going out on quite so many calls. - PUB DATE: 6/19/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Watertown Daily Times
In the 10 years since Charleston lost nine firefighters in the June 18, 2007, Sofa Super Store fire, the department has seen significant changes from the ground up and members say they are proud of the progress.
Following the tragic fire, investigations conducted by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) and an independent review panel led by Gordon Routley—who wrote the Routley Report, laid the framework for changes that the department needed to consider. - PUB DATE: 6/16/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Firehouse
The branch of the Houston Fire Department responsible for ensuring building safety keeps inadequate records, does not examine buildings on a regular schedule and inflated its inspection numbers, all while blowing past its overtime budget, according to an audit released by the city controller's office Thursday. - PUB DATE: 6/16/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Houston Chronicle
The government’s building safety experts warned last year that the drive for greater energy efficiency meant more and more buildings are being wrapped in materials that could go up in flames.
In a report compiled before the Grenfell Tower disaster on Wednesday, the Building Research Establishment, which works for the Department of Communities and Local Government on fire investigations, said attempts to innovate with insulation were leading to an “increase in the volume of potentially combustible materials being applied” to buildings. - PUB DATE: 6/16/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Guardian
Barrow Neurological Institute unveiled a mobile treatment vehicle Wednesday stocked with emergency-room and communications equipment that will be used to provide faster intervention for stroke victims in the Phoenix area.
Officials with Barrow, which is partnering with the Phoenix Fire Department in the effort, said their goal is to reduce deaths and long-term disabilities from strokes through quicker intervention. - PUB DATE: 6/16/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Arizona Republic, AZCentral.com & KPNX-TV NBC 12 Phoenix
How do you improve the relationship between police, firefighters and the public? The city of Columbus is trying something new. People from the community are helping make the next hires in the police and fire department.
The city has hired nine community evaluators; a diverse group from across the city. - PUB DATE: 6/16/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WCMH-TV NBC 4 Columbus
Comstock Township Fire Chief Edward Switalski was hit and killed by a passing vehicle while responding to an “unknown accident” on eastbound I-94, Kalamazoo County authorities say.
Oshtemo Township Fire Department Chief Mark Barnes said it all started with the Comstock Township Department of Fire & Rescue looking for two crashes on eastbound I-94 near mile marker 81 around 10:30 p. - PUB DATE: 6/15/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WOOD-TV NBC 8 Grand Rapids
Volunteer firefighters who separated from the Salisbury Fire Department Station 1 in February are suing the city and its fire chief for the return of equipment and other items they say belong to them, including religious pictures and a 60-inch Christmas wreath.
The firefighters also are seeking $494,316 in damages in the case filed recently in District Court. - PUB DATE: 6/15/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Delmarva Now
FirstNet still must complete a great deal of work, but the organization is more confident about building its much-anticipated nationwide public-safety broadband network (NPSN) than it has been during any stage of its previous five years in existence, according to FirstNet Chairwoman Sue Swenson.
Swenson said that confidence is a reflection of two primary factors:
1. - PUB DATE: 6/15/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Urgent Communications
Kevin Kolber, a battalion chief and 30-year veteran of the South Bend Fire Department, has died.
Kolber, 58, of South Bend, died on Tuesday while visiting family. He was appointed to the department on Jan. 21, 1987, and spent his entire career at the central fire station.
In the early 1990s, Kolber served as captain on Truck 1, and was promoted to battalion chief in 2003. - PUB DATE: 6/15/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: South Bend Tribune
Relief could be in sight for about 2,500 property owners in southern Teller County, who since mid April have been without the services of their taxpayer-funded fire protection district.
An impasse that started last year between volunteer firefighters and the board of the Four Mile Fire Protection District has reached a partial resolution, as the board hired a new fire chief Tuesday. - PUB DATE: 6/15/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Gazette
