For 32 years, James "Rick" Beale put his life on the literal line, battling blazes to keep homes, properties and most importantly, lives safe.
Although not injured or disabled himself, over those years, Beale knows other fellow firefighters around Polk County, Florida and the United States weren't as fortunate and ended their careers permanently disabled from a work-related incident. - PUB DATE: 10/18/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Ledger
PHOTO - Two Shreveport firefighters were taken to the hospital with minor injuries early Monday afternoon after their fire truck rolled over on Kings Hwy.
It happened just after 12 p.m. near Linwood Ave. It was not immediately clear what caused the ladder truck to wind up on its side, but Shreveport Fire Chief Scott Wolverton said they were responding to an EMS call when it happened. - PUB DATE: 10/18/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KSLA-TV Shreveport News 12
The Kansas Court of Appeals has ruled an area woman cannot be prosecuted for drugs found during a warrantless search of her purse by a Shawnee Heights firefighter. Lt. Brian Dodds responded to a home east of Topeka on Sept. 19, 2014, after the homeowner complained a woman she didn’t know was showering in her basement. - PUB DATE: 10/18/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Topeka Capital-Journal
Ten months after hiring an outside consultant to review staffing in the city’s fire department, the Providence City Council is refusing to release the much-anticipated findings from the report.
Records reviewed by Eyewitness News show Massachusetts-based MMA Consulting Group was paid $37,600 on June 22, but the report remains in “draft form,” according to the city’s law department. - PUB DATE: 10/18/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WPRI-TV Providence 12
The veteran firefighter who committed suicide Saturday aggressively fought post-traumatic stress disorder for years, his father said.
Indian River County Fire Rescue Battalion Chief David Dangerfield, 48, drove to a rural area of the county and shot himself, the Sheriff's Office said. Before his death, he made a Facebook post about the perils of PTSD for firefighters and advised family and friends of firefighters to assist their loved ones with getting help. - PUB DATE: 10/18/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: TCPalm.com
Research over the past couple decades has reported some mixed results about the relationship between firefighting and cancer, which has been used to argue against supporting firefighters who contract the disease. Recent research that has reviewed and combined data from previous studies, weighing the studies based on the size of the sample, has found increased risks for several different types of cancer. - PUB DATE: 10/18/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: FireRescue1
A University of Connecticut student was hit and killed by a university fire vehicle on the Storrs campus, early Sunday morning.
Police say 19-year-old Jeffny Pally, of West Hartford, was killed after sitting on the ground with her back against the garage door to the public safety complex, just after 1 a. - PUB DATE: 10/17/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WTNH-TV ABC 8 New Haven
Oct. 17 is a sad day for the New York Fire Department. Monday is the 50th anniversary of the fire that, until the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack, claimed more firefighters’ lives than any other disaster in the city.
The short trip that the firefighters made from nearby firehouses on Oct. 17, 1966, started around 9:30 p. - PUB DATE: 10/17/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: New York Times
Firefighters and paramedics are mourning the death of a man who worked alongside them for nearly three decades.
Indian River County Sheriff deputies went to a wooded area off State Road 60 west of Interstate 95 about 10:30 p.m. Saturday following a 911 call from Indian River County Fire Rescue Battalion Chief David Dangerfield, Sheriff's spokesman Lt. - PUB DATE: 10/17/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: TCPalm.com
It was supposed to be a routine training session for Tom Albert, who has been fighting fires for 25 years.
Albert and other members of Boulder Fire Rescue were near the area of 17th Street and King Avenue on June 13 to do some wildland fire training.
"We were just going through what we would do in case there was a real fire," Albert said. - PUB DATE: 10/17/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Daily Camera
Baltimore County officials say they are using firefighters, paramedics and police officers to temporarily fill staffing gaps at its 911 center. Eight employees from other departments were transferred to the 911 center in September and will be working there until March, county spokeswoman Ellen Kobler said. - PUB DATE: 10/17/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Baltimore Sun
Lawyers for an East Hills man awaiting a retrial for a 1995 fire that killed three firefighters say his murder case should be dismissed because investigators' misdeeds in the first trial trigger Pennsylvania's “double jeopardy” protections.
Gregory Brown, Jr., 39, was convicted in 1997 on three counts of second-degree murder for the deaths of firefighters Patricia Conroy, Marc Kolenda and Capt. - PUB DATE: 10/14/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
In the town of Delafield a firefighter and his three-year-old son are having a shared experience no one would wish for. Both have been diagnosed with brain tumors and critical treatment lies ahead for the young child especially.
Nicholas Stacey and his three-year-old son Brayden have found support in the firefighting and emergency responder community. - PUB DATE: 10/14/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WDJT-TV CBS 58 Milwaukee
City officials remain mum on whether the fire chief faced discipline for writing an email in which he asked one of his inspectors to delete the “bad parts” of video of the Cole Creek Fire.
City manager V.H. McDonald declined to comment Tuesday about the email fire chief Kenneth King sent as firefighters continued to battle the flames. - PUB DATE: 10/14/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Casper Star-Tribune
The Jackson firefighters union called the conditions the City Council placed on its acceptance of a grant to hire nine firefighters "unreasonable" and "detrimental to our membership."
"The city of Jackson council and mayor have failed the residents, business owners and firefighters of the city," Scott Stoker, president of the Summit-Jackson Professional Firefighters Union Local 1306, said in a statement. - PUB DATE: 10/14/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: MLive.com
When Hua Li called 911 to report a robbery, the woman on the other end of the phone answered with a sigh - and then hung up.
Now, 911 operator Crenshanda Williams, 43, of Houston, is facing two misdemeanor charges for allegedly hanging up on concerned callers just because she didn't feel like talking. - PUB DATE: 10/14/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Houston Chronicle
Kansas City Fire Chief Paul Berardi was so overcome by a wave of emotion Wednesday morning that he couldn’t make it through a promotion ceremony at Fire Department headquarters.
Berardi said his thoughts raced back to a year ago when firefighters Larry J. Leggio and John V. Mesh died fighting a blaze in a building at 2608 Independence Blvd. - PUB DATE: 10/13/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Kansas City Star & KansasCity.com
Black FDNY employees plan to hit the department with a $150 million federal lawsuit charging they have been discriminated against on the job, they announced Wednesday.
In a complaint filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and a lawsuit they plan to file later this year, 10 plaintiffs charge black workers were passed over for promotions and raises that white workers with similar or lesser qualifications received. - PUB DATE: 10/13/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: New York Daily News
The hospital where a Wilmington firefighter is recovering following a deadly Canby Park rowhouse fire said her condition has become more serious.
Firefighter Ardythe Hope was downgraded to critical condition Wednesday at Crozer-Chester Medical Center in Upland, Pennsylvania, where she was taken after the Sept. - PUB DATE: 10/13/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Wilmington News Journal (Delaware Online)
Clowns might be scaring kids across the country, but the Mansfield Fire Department is calling their bluff.
Since 2003, Mansfield firefighters have dressed up as clowns to produce fire safety shows for the city’s elementary schools, and they aren’t going to let a new creepy clown trend stop them. But the firefighters don’t want to scare anyone. - PUB DATE: 10/13/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Star-Telegram
