Standing just a few blocks from the World Trade Center site, Governor Andrew Cuomo addressed a roomful of hundreds of firefighters Thursday, praising them for their bravery and citing the heroism of those who rushed toward the burning towers.
"They knew exactly where they were going, and they kept going," Cuomo said. - PUB DATE: 9/9/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: NY1.com
As the 15th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the IAFC has voted to support the enhancement of communications for responders.
"...More than 343 firefighters and 71 law enforcement officers died as a result of the attacks at the World Trade Center on 9/11. As the 15th anniversary approaches, the IAFC joins the families of these fallen public-safety officers in vowing that the sacrifices of 9/11 will not be in vain," officials said in a statement Thursday. - PUB DATE: 9/9/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Firehouse.com
Mark Johnson was elected chief of the Bel Air Volunteer Fire Company this week, the pinnacle of a volunteer fire service career that started 18 years ago as the result of seeing an ad in the newspaper.
Johnson, a resident of Bel Air, was 34 years old, with two young children, in 1998 when he was sitting in the Bagel Works restaurant near the main South Hickory Avenue firehouse, reading The Aegis. - PUB DATE: 9/9/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Baltimore Sun
The drone hovered over the clearing in the wooded park on Staten Island, the thin cord that tethered it to the ground unspooling enough for it to fly above the trees.
Michael Wall, a New York City firefighter, stood on the ground below, operating the drone from a portable command center of sorts, with controls and a monitor housed in a mustard-colored case. - PUB DATE: 9/8/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The New York Times
A Wink Volunteer firefighter died in an accident Wednesday afternoon.
According to the Loving County Sheriff Chris Busse, Colby Slaughter, 36, was killed in the accident.
Authorities said the Wink Volunteer Fire Department responded to a tank battery fire around 5 p.m. and the truck was traveling westbound on State Highway 302 with its lights and sirens on. - PUB DATE: 9/8/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: newest9.com
The two Everett police detectives didn’t know the flag was missing until a stranger rang the doorbell at Fire Station 1 on Rucker Avenue. The man handed over a plastic bag to firefighters, along with a tale that led the detectives on the investigation of a lifetime.
Nearly two years later — on Aug. 4 — a curator from the National September 11 Memorial Museum made a quiet visit to the Everett police station. - PUB DATE: 9/8/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: HeraldNet.com
A GPS tracker placed a California arson suspect's vehicle at the scene of a destructive wildfire north of San Francisco last month about a minute before it started, according to an investigation of the suspect in the blaze that destroyed 189 homes.
Investigators first placed a tracker on Damin Pashilk's vehicle in August 2015 after a series of small arson fires over the previous weeks that Pashilk is also accused of starting. - PUB DATE: 9/8/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Daily Press
Not familiar with FirstNet? Chances are you're not alone.
One of the most important priorities for public safety that emerged in the aftermath of 9/11 was creating an ensuring, robust and interoperable communications for our nation's first responders. In 2012, Congress finally enacted legislation setting aside wireless spectrum and establishing FirstNet to oversee the building and operation of an interoperable broadband network dedicated to public safety. - PUB DATE: 9/8/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Firechief.com
Romona Walters has always wanted to be a teacher. Kids in preschool, maybe. It's a career that fits her interest in public service, she says.
But about a year ago, another possibility opened up. Now, the 20-year-old has a new goal as she continues her classes at Capital Community College: to become the first female fire chief in Hartford. - PUB DATE: 9/7/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Courant Community
Frederick Conyers Jr. had a choice: he could run and hide from his past or he could face it head on.
On Tuesday, he sat, flanked by the mayor and the fire chief and surrounded by microphones and cameras from a half-dozen local reporters, detailing his criminal history, incarceration and rise to redemption. - PUB DATE: 9/7/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: iBerkshires.com
Changes to Frederick County’s fire and rescue response goals could help county fire stations get more support — and maybe more personnel.
The Frederick County Council heard testimony Tuesday on a bill to change target response times throughout the county.
Right now, county code has a blanket approach to measuring fire station responses, the time it takes units to leave a station after a dispatched call. - PUB DATE: 9/7/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Frederick News-Post
Pittsburgh's firefighters now know they averted a disaster with their quick action to put out the fire on the Liberty Bridge on Friday.
They knew the heat from the flames was intense, but going in, they didn't know the full threat that the severe fire damage to a metal beam under the Liberty Bridge was creating. - PUB DATE: 9/7/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: wtae.com
There aren’t many sounds in Southern California more frightening than a wildfire. And we’ve been hearing them way too often, in a fire season that doesn’t seem like a season at all any more, but a year-round event. There are so many that we have to give them names to distinguish them -- the Sand fire, the Chimney fire, the Fish fire. - PUB DATE: 9/7/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
Romona Walters has always wanted to be a teacher. Kids in preschool, maybe. It's a career that fits her interest in public service, she says.
But about a year ago, another possibility opened up. Now, the 20-year-old has a new goal as she continues her classes at Capital Community College: to become the first female fire chief in Hartford. - PUB DATE: 9/7/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Courant Community
Stan Simi still responds to fires when they get big enough, and despite being 89 years old, he sees no reason to stop any time in the immediate future.
“The way it is now, it is pretty easy for me,” said Simi, who has been chief of the River Delta Fire Protection District since 2009. “I have people doing everything that needs to be done . - PUB DATE: 9/6/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Daily Republic
A Chelsea firefighter who “exemplified the fire service to the nth degree” lost the fight of his life on Saturday to aggressive esophageal cancer, the city’s director of Emergency Management and 911 Communications said yesterday.
Peter Franz Kannler, a father of two from Townsend whose heroic struggle with the disease was profiled by the Boston Herald in February, was 37 years old. - PUB DATE: 9/6/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Boston Herald
A hero FDNY firefighter dismissed after testing positive for cocaine has won his job back — after arguing that Fire Commissioner Daniel Nigro gave a similar break to his predecessor’s son.
Glen Merkitch, 47, who has won bravery awards for his rescues, failed a random test in 2011, violating the FDNY’s “zero tolerance” policy. - PUB DATE: 9/6/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: New York Post
A man was taken into custody Sunday evening after he assaulted a police officer and firefighter in west Wichita.
Wichita Police Sgt. Nikki Woodrow reports a 25-year-old man drove erratically into the joint Wichita Police and Fire Department station in the 600 block of N. Elder about 6:45 p.m. Sunday night. - PUB DATE: 9/6/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KSN-TV News 3
A Lubbock firefighter has filed a lawsuit to reverse the ruling of a city commission that governs promotions among fire and police personnel that denied him advancement in the department.
According to Charles Turner II’s lawsuit, which was filed Friday in the 237th District Court, the Lubbock Civil Service Commission violated its policy during a promotion application process in June. - PUB DATE: 9/6/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Lubbock Avalanche-Journal
A Columbus firefighter was taken to the hospital after being hit by a vehicle while participating in a “Fill the Boot” event.
According to the Columbus Division of Fire, the firefighter suffered a broken leg after being hit by a vehicle at High Street and North Broadway while standing in the road participating in the “Fill the Boot” campaign. - PUB DATE: 9/2/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WCMH-TV NBC 4 Columbus
