Kevin Brame (DHS-FEMA-USFA-NFA) contacted the Daily Dispatch and wanted to make the following correction and clarification to Thursday's 'Key the Mic' column on the NFA Leadership in Supervision Class: "In my position, I serve as the Training Specialist-Curriculum Manager for the Leadership and Executive Development Curriculum. - PUB DATE: 5/12/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Daily Dispatch
On the surface, it may not look like a 12-year-old boy and a firefighter would have much in common.
But this heartwarming video showed Logan, a 12-year-old boy from Gilbert, and Mase Mattingly, a Gilbert firefighter, bonding over their shared prosthetic legs.
Candy Carson, Logan’s mom, said in the video that five years ago, Logan had strep throat, which sent him into septic shock. - PUB DATE: 5/12/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KTAR 620 - Newsradio
A Lucas County Common Pleas Court judge ordered today that a man convicted of setting a fire that killed two Toledo firefighters spend a maximum of 20 years in prison.
The defendant’s plea, conviction, and sentencing came just after Judge Stacy Cook declared a mistrial in the case because jurors heard testimony that was considered incriminating toward the suspect. - PUB DATE: 5/11/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Toledo Blade
Alameda County supervisors extended their ambulance contract with Paramedics Plus by three years despite fierce criticism by firefighters complaining the process wasn’t open for competitive bids and changes in service delivery were not included.
Supervisors voted in favor 3 to 1, with one recusal, extending the contract until June 1, 2020. - PUB DATE: 5/11/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: East Bay Times
A fire in Brooklyn Criminal Court injured eight state court officers and five firefighters and forced an early recess Wednesday afternoon.
The 4:04 p.m. blaze on the sixth floor generated heavy smoke that led to the evacuation of the 10-story building in downtown Brooklyn.
"There was a lot of smoke in the hallway," said one court staffer who declined to give his name. - PUB DATE: 5/11/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: New York Daily News
VIDEO - A Fort Madison fire engine rolled into a slough along the Mississippi River on Wednesday night while responding to an accident.
Thursday morning Fort Madison Fire Chief Joey Herren said that he was planning to get a crane to move the truck and the road will be closed until further notice.
Chief Herren says the truck was headed down 35th Street when it slid off the edge of the gravel road. - PUB DATE: 5/11/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WGEM-TV Quincy
Burton Fire District Capt. Ralph Neiderhiser celebrated his 80th birthday Tuesday. Sixty five of those years have been spent in fire service.
“If you do what you enjoy, it ain’t (like) going to work,” he said Wednesday.
Neiderhiser began his career as a volunteer with his father in Pennsylvania when he was 16, he said. - PUB DATE: 5/11/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Island Packet
Members of Montgomery County Fire/EMS are mourning the loss of a longtime firefighter who died following his shift.
Firefighter/Paramedic James "Dewon" Wells, 52, worked an eight-hour shift on May 5. Twice before he left the station around 4 p.m. he told colleagues he wasn't feel well, including suffering numbness to the mouth. - PUB DATE: 5/10/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Firehouse
Authorities are on the scene of a sanitary tanker fire on Dauphin Street just west of I-65. News 5 cameras captured the dramatic moments as a firefighter narrowly escaped injury. The video shows the firefighter approaching the truck, as he walks towards it a tire suddenly explodes. The blast sends him reeling as a small amount of debris blasts towards him. - PUB DATE: 5/10/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WKRG-TV News 5 Mobile
The 23 fire engines set for their Boston debut this year will be equipped with foam that can be powerfully effective in helping quash certain blazes and are intended to decrease the risk of cancer for city firefighters, officials said Tuesday.
Fire Commissioner Joseph E. Finn said that foam will be used only on dumpster and vehicle blazes, which are most hazardous to firefighters’ health. - PUB DATE: 5/10/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Boston Globe
In response to hazing scandals resulting in lawsuits, FDNY Fire Commissioner Daniel Nigro recently announced that he would meet in person with every fire officer on the New York City Fire Department, over 900 of them. Groups of officers would attend meetings at the Randall’s Island training facility. - PUB DATE: 5/10/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: FireRescue1
A Fairfax County supervisor says she’s “fit to be tied” over comments condoning bullying allegedly made by fire department captain.
WUSA9 broke the story of a letter written by a parent of a fire recruit, one year after the suicide of Fairfax County paramedic Nicole Mittendorff, who was bullied online by people who appeared to be firefighters. - PUB DATE: 5/10/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WUSA-TV 9 DC
The Texas House easily passed Houston's pension reform bill Monday, but not without making several changes friendly to firefighters, setting the stage for a reconciliation showdown between the upper and lower chambers.
The House accepted four amendments to the bill the Senate passed last week before voting 112-28 to preliminarily approve Houston's reform measures. - PUB DATE: 5/9/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Firehouse
A Chicago Fire Department chief suffered a massive heart attack and died Sunday afternoon.
Chief Michael V. Murphy, 56, was taking part in an aquatic event at Mount Carmel High School on the South Side with his 16-year-old son when he suffered a massive heart attack, according to a statement from the Chicago Fire Department. - PUB DATE: 5/9/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WLS-TV ABC 7 Chicago
Two volunteer firefighters are set to go on trial Monday for the 2015 assault of a career firefighter outside a burning home near Hyattsville, Maryland.
Jeffrey Miller and Christopher Kelly — both members of West Lanham Hills Volunteer Company 28 — were indicted on a charge of fighting with a career firefighter unit over who should go inside a house that was ablaze Dec. - PUB DATE: 5/9/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WTOP-AM 1500 Washington
Annoyed with how much sick time firefighters use, the City Council on Monday night informally agreed to reduce the amount of overtime in the proposed 2017-18 budget from $631,000 to $570,000.
Mayor Joseph M. Butler Jr. recommended cutting the fire department’s overtime by $61,000 after a lengthy discussion about sick time. - PUB DATE: 5/9/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Watertown Daily Times
After a week of silence and speculation, former Sioux Falls Fire Chief Jim Sideras was arrested Monday, charged with possessing child pornography.
State police and county deputies removed CDs, hard drives and computers from the fire chief's home last Tuesday, hours before his employment with the city was abruptly terminated. - PUB DATE: 5/9/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Argus Leader
VIDEO - A Facebook Live tour of a Memphis fire truck is now under investigation. Two men saw the truck, hopped in, and streamed the whole thing on Facebook.
Memphis Fire said the fire engine was never stolen, not even moved from the spot where it was parked on Monday afternoon near Lamar Avenue and Prescott. - PUB DATE: 5/9/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WMC-TV Action News5 Memphis
Emergency radio recordings show that helicopter pilots with the Orange County Sheriff’s Department and the Orange County Fire Authority bickered, and that sheriff pilots ignored a direct order to “stand down,” during a pair of rescues in Laguna Beach and Orange on Saturday, April 29, revealing an escalating battle between the two agencies over helicopter-related emergencies and who responds to them. - PUB DATE: 5/8/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Orange County Register
For the first time in the FDNY’s 150-year history, more women and black, Latino and Asian applicants have filed for the upcoming firefighter exam than white men.
The latest numbers mark a significant change for the department — which has been the city’s least diverse agency for decades, despite also being one of its largest with 10,000 members. - PUB DATE: 5/8/2017 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: New York Daily News
