Fire departments that service unincorporated areas of the county are requesting funds from potential future income tax revenues that largely would pay for more personnel.
“Fire service, as a whole, outside the city limits is in dire need of personnel,” Ellettsville Fire Department Chief Mike Cornman told a committee of the Monroe County Income Tax Council on Monday night, speaking on behalf of Richland Township, which his department serves. - PUB DATE: 8/10/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Firerescue1
Matthew A. Jurado told North Tonawanda police Thursday that he poured a bottle of lighter fluid on the couch in the apartment of Kenneth D. Walker, the city’s only African-American firefighter, and lit it.
However, Jurado said he did it because he was angry about being suspended from the Fire Department – not because of Walker’s race. - PUB DATE: 8/10/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Buffalo News
As the Soberanes Fire in Big Sur rages into its third week, the Cal Fire firefighters union is bringing its contract negotiations argument to the Monterey area.
The Sacramento-based Local 2881 took out an advertisement in The Monterey Herald titled “Cal Fire is proud to serve our community in time of disaster” and highlighted its claim that Cal Fire firefighters are underpaid when compared to other fire departments, ranging from minimum wage pay for entry-level firefighters to a salary lag of between 33 and 89 percent behind the state average. - PUB DATE: 8/9/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Santa Cruz Sentinel
The state’s workers’ compensation commission will need to take a second look at a Homewood firefighter’s claim for coverage for post-traumatic stress disorder, after a state appeals court ruled legal precedent exists to support his claim and the commission was too hasty to toss his claims.
An arbitrator had found Lt. - PUB DATE: 8/9/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Cook County Record
The origin of a fatal motel fire in Newport came from a ground-level room but the incident killed four guests on the second floor, police said in an update Monday morning.
The fire, which ignited before 6 a.m. at the City Center Motel, killed two people from Portland and two from Springfield, Newport police Lt. - PUB DATE: 8/9/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Portland Oregonian
For almost three years now, Cindy Schuenke has had a court order demanding that she be reinstated as a firefighter with the Community Fire Protection District in north St. Louis County. The order makes it clear the district is to give the Pacific woman, 52, back pay to Aug. 9, 2009, when the fire district’s board illegally fired her. - PUB DATE: 8/9/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: St. Louis Post-Dispatch
A former Oatman firefighter was arrested Sunday when he tried to help efforts to put out a fire but refused orders to stand down.
Jonathan Bradley Blake, 33, of Oatman, was arrested on suspicion of obstructing governmental operations, according to Mohave County Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman Trish Carter. - PUB DATE: 8/9/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Mohave Daily News
On July 7, shooter Micah Johnson fired a barrage of bullets towards officers and citizens in downtown Dallas.
Those who were struck were not alone, however. That night, Dallas paramedics risked their own lives to try and get to the wounded.
"I had guys who got back to the station who said they had bullets whizzing by their heads,” said Cristian Hinojosa, the president of the Latino Firefighters Association. - PUB DATE: 8/8/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WFAA-TV ABC 8 Dallas - Fort Worth
Tyler Townsend, the chief spokesman for the Kern County Fire Department, made $174,266 in overtime in 2015, on top of his $95,962 salary. That’s the most earned by anyone in the entire county.
He was able to bring home $283,952 in 2015, according to the independent watchdog site Transparent California. - PUB DATE: 8/8/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Bakersfield Californian
An official with a local police union said it is unacceptable not to pay the police officers and firefighters of Fairfield. Fairfield City Council voted Friday to withhold first responders checks until more funds come in next week. David Crews, immediate past president of the Birmingham area Fraternal Order of Police, said other city employees received their pay. - PUB DATE: 8/8/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: AL.com
A retired San Jose firefighter who tried to grab the man who stabbed to death a retired teacher in London this week says anyone would have tried to stop the attack.
Martin Hoenisch, 59, said he was just a tourist who knew what to do in a dire situation – namely try to subdue a man wielding a knife Wednesday in London’s Russell Square, near the British Museum. - PUB DATE: 8/8/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Orange County Register
The Isonville Volunteer Fire Department is facing a lawsuit by an Elliott County man over a lack of payments in a $1 per year deal with the previous property owner.
Roger Howard, who lives near the fire department, recently bought the property that includes the fire department’s garage.
The garage has been on the property since 1995, and the fire department later entered into an agreement with Willis Lyon. - PUB DATE: 8/8/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Daily Independent
New York state has issued 14 violations to two fire departments regarding the Dec. 19 line-of-duty death of Mount Marion volunteer firefighter Lt. Jack Rose.
The Public Employee Safety and Health Bureau of the state Department of Labor issued the violations in early May. The Times Herald-Record obtained the reports on the two departments through a request under the Freedom of Information Law. - PUB DATE: 8/5/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Middletown Times Herald-Record
Dallas Fire-Rescue paramedics now have access to ballistic kits that can protect against rounds from high-powered rifles, like those used in the ambush on Dallas police officers last month.
The kits are part of a modification to the active-shooter policy for DFR that will ultimately include collaboration with DPD. - PUB DATE: 8/5/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WFAA-TV ABC 8 Dallas - Fort Worth
The Warfield Volunteer Fire Department has filed a lawsuit in Martin County, Kentucky, to get its repossessed firetrucks back.
In May, First Government Lease Co. of Northfield, Ill., took the vehicles. Paul Graver, doing business as First lease Company and AA Repo East, LLC of Lexington, Ky., are named as defendants in the lawsuit. - PUB DATE: 8/5/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WCHS-TV
A former volunteer firefighter has admitted to holding four colleagues hostage at the LaMott Fire Company in Cheltenham while armed with a handgun a day after he was expelled by the company’s board of governors.
Paul Anthony Jordan, 27, of the 400 block of West Wellens Avenue, Philadelphia, pleaded guilty in Montgomery County Court on Thursday to charges of kidnapping, attempted kidnapping, terroristic threats, possession of a weapon and simple assault in connection with the 10:30 a. - PUB DATE: 8/5/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Pottstown Mercury
Let me start out by saying that there is no such thing as a perfect company officer. I was fortunate enough to serve as a company officer for almost six years, and have been a chief officer for more than nine years. As a company officer, I was far from perfect.
While I think I was a competent company officer during my tenure, I look back and realize that I could have been a much better company officer in so many ways. - PUB DATE: 8/5/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: firehouse
Floyd E. Clark seemed to have broken a glass ceiling in 2011 when he was promoted to chief of the Ontario Fire Department, the first African-American to hold the top job.
But Clark was fired in late June, an action he says was racially motivated when he complained about hiring practices within the department. - PUB DATE: 8/4/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: dailybulletin.com
Facing mounting financial losses and a burned-out volunteer staff, Bath is prepared to end its EMS service for good.
Instead, the borough's roughly 2,700 residents will be served by Bethlehem Township EMS, an agency that's no stranger to the borough, having served as the advanced life support service for more than 35 years. - PUB DATE: 8/4/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Allentown Morning Call
A fire broke out Wednesday afternoon in the apartment of a volunteer firefighter who received a threatening and racist letter earlier this week.
Firefighters were called early Wednesday afternoon to the blaze at an apartment house at 1096 Oliver St. in North Tonawanda where Kenneth Walker lives. When the fire was discovered, Walker said that no one was in his apartment, where he lives with his wife and their two children. - PUB DATE: 8/4/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Buffalo News
