More city employees in Petersburg are quitting their jobs over budget cuts.
Chief T.C. Hairston says the Petersburg Fire Department has lost 14 firefighters since the city implemented a mandatory 10 percent pay cut for all city employees.
Some people who live in Petersburg are now concerned about safety. - PUB DATE: 12/8/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WRIC.com
A date which will live in infamy was also a day the Honolulu Fire Department unexpectedly went to war.
On Dec. 7, 1941, Engine 6 was the first to respond to Hickam Airfield.
“They were used to seeing practice anti-aircraft artillery and they knew that to be white smoke, white puffs in the sky,” said Capt. - PUB DATE: 12/7/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KHON2
The recovery effort from the aftermath of a devastating Fruitvale District warehouse fire that killed 36 people has been completed, authorities announced Wednsday morning.
The death total did not rise as crews combed through the final 10 percent of the building known as the “Ghost Ship.” Authorities did not say what time they finished the search. - PUB DATE: 12/7/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Mercury News
Last December an unlikely confrontation unfolded during a fire at a home in Hyattsville.
Prosecutors allege two volunteer firefighters fought a career female firefighter over who got to enter the home first and be in charge of the scene.
Authorities claim Chris Kelly, out of the West Lanham Hills station, hit the career female firefighter knocking her off the front porch. - PUB DATE: 12/7/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WJLA-TV ABC 7 Washington
A Flint apartment complex fire that left three firefighters injured last month pushed the Flint Fire Department to its limits that day.
Not only did it require every firefighter on duty that day -- 14 in all -- the fire at Village Shores Apartments also forced the city to call in mutual aid because the department's two ladder trucks were both in the repair shop. - PUB DATE: 12/7/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: mlive.com
As Youngstown firefighters begin their day Wednesday following a shooting Monday night that left a firefighter with a gunshot wound to the leg, many are wary and contemplative as they execute their duties.
Captain Chris Weaver said the Youngstown Police Department is doing a good job keeping tabs on firefighters following the shooting, but the unsettling feeling is still there. - PUB DATE: 12/7/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WKBN27.com
Youngstown police confirmed that a Youngstown firefighter was shot Monday after responding to a fire.
It began when crews were called about 9 p.m. to a house fire at Halleck and Elm streets.
As crews were leaving the scene around 10:30 p.m., shots were fired and bullets came through the fire truck, hitting a firefighter in the leg. - PUB DATE: 12/6/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WKBN-TV (Youngstown)
Derick Almena, the manager of the Oakland, California warehouse that went up in flames during a weekend party and killed at least 36 people, defended his role as landlord for the building which was used as a residential artist community. “I’m only here to say one thing: I’m incredibly sorry and that everything that I did was to make this a stronger and more beautiful community and to bring people together,” he said Tuesday on TODAY during an emotional interview. - PUB DATE: 12/6/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Today.com
A hatch on the side of the single-engine Pilatus plane opened, exposing the flag-draped casket to the small crowd of family, friends and officials huddled in the biting wind outside Missoula’s smokejumper hangar Sunday afternoon.
Four honor guards, two full-dressed representatives each from the Bureau of Land Management and the U. - PUB DATE: 12/6/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Missoulian
Schriever Fire Chief Ken Pitre remembers when a truckload of about 1,500 butane bottles caught fire, causing U.S. 90 to shut down. "We watched the fireworks," he said. "All these bottles started exploding. It really caught me off guard in a way. It was in the middle of the night, and I remember coming out the door and all I heard was 'boom. - PUB DATE: 12/6/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Thibodaux Daily Comet
Manuel Jimenez was four miles short of finishing a charity marathon in Memphis, Tennessee, on Saturday when a doctor pulled him from the race after noticing the paramedic firefighter from Northport was struggling to stay on his feet.
No one could fault Jimenez for being fatigued -- he'd just run 22 miles wearing his full, 60-pound set of firefighting gear in an effort to raise money for St. - PUB DATE: 12/6/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Firehouse
The death toll in the devastating Oakland warehouse fire climbed to 36 early Monday as officials said the search for more bodies had to halted due to precarious conditions just after they found what they suspect is the area where the blaze started.
The number of victims recovered from the gutted building grew by three overnight, but work on recovering more bodies was stopped just after midnight due to a “wobbly” wall that was leaning inward and making the situation too dangerous for firefighters to continue, said Battalion Chief Melinda Drayton of the Oakland Fire Department. - PUB DATE: 12/5/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: SFGate.com
Firefighters battled a 10-alarm fire Saturday in Cambridge that started in the afternoon and raged on into the night.
The fire was reported just before 3 p.m. on Berkshire Street and reached nine alarms about 30 minutes later, and eventually hit 10 alarms. The flames were lessened but still burning as of 11 p. - PUB DATE: 12/5/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: CBS Boston
An Oak Lawn firefighter who was dismissed in February after being accused of dialing phone sex providers while on duty has reached a six-figure settlement agreement with the village over his termination, officials said. Robert Lanz, a 15-year veteran of the Oak Lawn Fire Department, will receive a combined $100,000 — $42,040 for his accrued paid time-off benefits and an additional sum of $57,960 — and have all records of being disciplined over the phone sex allegations rescinded and removed from his personnel file, according to the terms of the agreement. - PUB DATE: 12/5/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Chicago Tribune
Rivada Mercury is protesting its elimination from consideration to become FirstNet’s contractor to build and operate the much-anticipated nationwide public-safety broadband network (NPSBN)—an action that points to AT&T as the selected bidder, although court documents indicate that the award likely will be delayed until at least March. - PUB DATE: 12/5/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Urgent Communications
PHOTOS - Seventeen years ago, Crystal Jackson stood outside the Worcester Cold Storage and Warehouse Co. fire certain that her brother, Tim, had gone into the building to help find fellow Worcester firefighters trapped inside.
Ms. Jackson and hundreds of others returned to the scene Saturday night, remembering Lt. - PUB DATE: 12/5/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Worcester Telegram & Gazette
The City of Mesa has hired a new fire chief, a trailblazer for individuals in her department. Mary Cameli was among the first women firefighters hired by Mesa 33 years ago, and now she is the new chief of the Fire and Medical Department. She was appointed the interim chief on Oct 4 to replace retired Chief Harry Beck, and her permanent position as chief became official on Thursday. - PUB DATE: 12/5/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KNXV-TV Channel 15 ABC
Ardythe Hope, a firefighter injured in Canby Park blaze in September has died, according to the Wilmington Fire Department. She is the third firefighter to die as a result of the Canby Park blaze in September. Hope was injured after entering the rowhome in an attempt to save a trapped Leach when the floor gave way. - PUB DATE: 12/2/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Wilmington News Journal
When he likely retires in 4½ years, Clarence Tucker will remember Dec. 1, 2016, for two reasons:
It was his birthday; he turned 55.
And he got to spend it with his family inside Akron Fire Station No. 7 as Mayor Dan Horrigan swore in the 28-year firefighter as the 19th Fire Chief and only the second African-American to lead the fire department in its 180-year history. - PUB DATE: 12/2/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Akron Beacon Journal
The California Supreme Court jumped into a high-stakes dispute over public employee pensions Tuesday, agreeing to decide whether laws aimed at limiting preretirement actions to inflate future benefits can be applied to millions of government workers.
A state appeals court in San Francisco ruled in a Marin County case in August that the new laws could be applied to current employees — a potentially major setback for the workers and their unions, and a victory for local governments facing mounting deficits in their pension plans. - PUB DATE: 12/2/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: SFGate.com
