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
After finding common ground with the city, the fire union Local 825 has withdrawn its prohibitive practice complaint regarding safety and labor concerns related to Office of Emergency Management Deputy Director Rick Fontana, who the bargaining unit alleged had been performing the duties of Fire Department employees. - PUB DATE: 10/13/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: New Haven Register
A former Oklahoma firefighter is suing his former department after he says he was wrongfully terminated.
Greg Chapman was a firefighter with the Tulsa Fire Department for nearly 20 years when a Facebook comment brought his career to a halt.
According to FOX 23, Chapman commented on a viral video of a police officer threatening to take a man’s child away after mistaking him for a fugitive. - PUB DATE: 10/13/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KFOR-TV NBC 4 Oklahoma City
Recent examples of fraud, mismanagement and embezzlement inside Delaware volunteer fire companies have precipitated state action which on Wednesday will take form as a task force focused on their financial management.
Delaware's 60 volunteer companies — encompassing fire protection for the entirety of the state excluding Wilmington — are self-regulated entities required only to submit an annual report to the State Fire Prevention Commission. - PUB DATE: 10/12/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: DelawareOnline.com
Some police and fire departments are bucking a trend to conceal dispatch communications from the public, acknowledging that radio encryption has the potential to backfire and put first responders in danger.
Agencies with digital radio systems have turned off the encryption to their main dispatching channels and others have decided not to turn it on. - PUB DATE: 10/12/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WTIC-AM CBS Connecticut
Slatington Borough Council terminated its fire chief Monday night.
Council members voted 6-1 to remove Keith Weaverfrom the volunteer position he has held for 13 years.
Councilman Bryon Reed was the only member to go against the motion made by Councilman Jon Rinker to strip Weaver of his rank.
“Termination for insubordination for Weaver taking the ladder truck out of town when he was not supposed to,” Rinker said about his motion. - PUB DATE: 10/12/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Lehighton Times News
VIDEO - A firefighter was seriously injured in a house fire on Tuesday that forced a fire crew that was searching the building to retreat outside.
Toronto Fire Service said they received a call about a fire that broke out in a two-storey home on Dufferin Street near Alma Avenue, north of Queen Street West, shortly after 9 a. - PUB DATE: 10/12/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: CBC News Toronto
The widow of a Denver firefighter is trying to recover an estimated $70,000 in pension benefits lost due to a simple bureaucratic error 15 years ago.
“The whole process was poorly managed and poorly executed,” said Julie Drennan. Her husband, Charles Drennan Jr., a division chief with the Denver fire department, was shot and killed Sept. - PUB DATE: 10/12/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KCNC-TV CBS 4 Denver
