The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) has released its annual U.S. Firefighter Fatalities report, which showed that a total of 68 firefighters died while on duty in the United States in 2015. This represents the fourth time in the past five years that the total number of deaths has been below 70. - PUB DATE: 6/10/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: National Fire Protection Association
The city’s chief administrative officer is looking into a recent Fire Department promotion after the head of the city’s firefighters union said the chief and a fire board did not follow proper procedures.
“I can confirm the city’s Chief Administrative Officer and its Office of Corporation Counsel are reviewing the process that resulted in the promotion of Antonio Almodovar,” city Communications Director Laurence Grotheer confirmed in an email Thursday. - PUB DATE: 6/10/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: new haven register
Hours before music fans set foot into AT&T Stadium—home of the Dallas Cowboys—dozens of fire and EMS personnel readied their equipment, inspected the facility and began patrolling the grounds. The June 4 concert with Miranda Lambert and Kenny Chesney was expected to have over 40,000 in attendance on the warm, muggy day. - PUB DATE: 6/10/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: firehouse
A Prince George's County firefighter had to be helped to a ladder after being burned during a house fire in Landover Hills Wednesday.
Firefighters were called to a vacant two-story home on Dorman Street around 12:45 p.m. and found smoke showing.
The fire appeared to have started on the second floor, Prince George's County Fire Spokesman Mark Brady said in a statement. - PUB DATE: 6/9/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: firehouse
VIDEO - The head of the city firefighters union disrupted a promotional ceremony Wednesday, confronting the acting fire chief with an allegation that the promotion wasn’t in line with the city charter.
The confrontation by fire union President Frank Ricci preceded a small ceremony, with city officials and Antonio Almodovar’s wife at the department’s headquarters on Grand Avenue, during which Almodovar was promoted from acting director of training to director of training. - PUB DATE: 6/9/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: new haven register
The recent death of a baby girl has led Alderman Mark S. Devine to demand that the city restore the legal ability of firefighters to perform advanced life support techniques.
Devine, a retired assistant fire chief, said at Wednesday’s Common Council work session that he wants a vote next week on applying to the state Health Department to restore that license. - PUB DATE: 6/9/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: buffalo news
The Rhode Island Supreme Court says the Providence Retirement Board erred when it denied a city firefighter's petition for an accidental disability pension.
In quashing the board's denial of Michael Morse's 2012 petition, the court ruled that the board "misconstrued" a city ordinance when it based its decision on a "self-imposed unanimity rule. - PUB DATE: 6/9/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: providence journal
Hundreds of people evacuated their homes as a wildfire raged near the Arizona town where a 2013 blaze killed 19 members of an elite firefighting crew.
Bureau of Land Management spokeswoman Dolores Garcia said 250 to 300 people left their homes in the town.
The fire grew to 600 acres, but crews expected it to ease somewhat during the overnight with cooler temperatures and higher humidity. - PUB DATE: 6/9/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: abc news
July 4 marks the 40-year anniversary of the house fire that killed Pete DiMaria's mother, brother, sister and grandfather.
DiMaria was just 11 years old when it happened at his house in Pompano Beach. The fire sparked overnight. He still doesn't know how it started. His grandfather tried rousing the family awake, but the smoke knocked them out. - PUB DATE: 6/8/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: naples daily news
They’re called “superusers,” and in 2015 alone, the top 40 superusers in Los Angeles accounted for about 2,000 emergency responses.
“When ambulances are responding to these individuals — sometimes the same individual two times a day, taking the same patient to an ER twice in one day — that ambulance is not available to respond to the rest of the community,” said Los Angeles Fire Department Medical Director and physician Marc Eckstein. - PUB DATE: 6/8/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KPCC-FM
Botetourt County Fire & EMS Chief Jeff Beckner died Friday morning at the age of 57.
Beckner worked in fire and EMS for more than 30 years, and he was known for his strong leadership and hands-on style. He worked in Roanoke before becoming chief in Botetourt County in September 2014.
“He’s the kind of fire chief that doesn’t come around very often,” Roanoke Fire-EMS Chief David Hoback said. - PUB DATE: 6/8/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Roanoke Times
Companies spanning the telecom, tech, and security industries announced a partnership on Tuesday that seeks to win a $6.5 billion contract to build a national emergency network. Their bid also contains a major economic twist that could, if successful, see the companies shake up how companies buy and sell precious wireless spectrum. - PUB DATE: 6/8/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: fortune.com
Five Huntsville firefighters were injured Tuesday morning when a balcony collapsed from under them during a training exercise.
The incident happened around 10:15 a.m. as Huntsville Fire & Rescue participated in the last day of fire training at one of three donated structures at 4020 Independence Drive. - PUB DATE: 6/8/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: al.com
Yvonne Johnson was home in Silver Spring one afternoon last month when she got word her husband of 58 years had collapsed of a stroke. She ran across the street to a neighbor, who drove her to Sibley Memorial Hospital in Northwest Washington.
By the time she arrived at the Johns Hopkins-affiliated hospital, Ramon Johnson, 77, was nearly alert, and doctors said he had an excellent chance of making a strong recovery. - PUB DATE: 6/8/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: washington post
A firefighter was killed Monday during a search for a man who went missing on Lake Norman over the weekend. Two other divers were also injured.
Officials have not said exactly what happened during the search, but confirmed that 28-year-old firefighter Bradley Long, who went into the water earlier Monday searching for a missing 29-year-old man, was killed. - PUB DATE: 6/7/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WBTV-TV Channel 3
A former Round Rock fire chief has been named Dallas Fire-Rescue Chief, the city announced Monday.
David Coatney has also served in the San Antonio Fire Department for more than 25 years. "We have an incredible group of leaders within Dallas Fire-Rescue and I'm confident that David Coatney's background of service will be a tremendous asset to the City of Dallas," Dallas City Manager A. - PUB DATE: 6/7/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Fox 4 News
While others seeking to build a nationwide public-safety broadband network for FirstNet remain silent, the one publicly confirmed bidder today announced that its legal name will be Rivada Mercury and identified several key partners on its offeror team.
Led by Rivada Networks, Rivada Mercury includes more than two dozen companies that will form a “first-rate” team that will be dedicated to the FirstNet project to build and maintain a nationwide public-safety broadband network in the United States, according to Rivada Networks CEO Declan Ganley. - PUB DATE: 6/7/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: urgent communications
Long Island’s only two paid fire departments are trimming budgets by scaling back staff firefighters in favor of paramedics and volunteers.
For many decades, Long Beach and Garden City have boasted departments staffed by professional firefighters. But elected officials have been gradually reducing the ranks of paid firefighters, eyeing the departments as a key source of savings. - PUB DATE: 6/7/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: firehouse
Nearly three years after the I-Team exposed regular attacks on Chicago paramedics, a new city ordinance is finally in the works to protect them and all first responders.
Under the proposed ordinance, city hate crime laws would be expanded to protect police, fire and EMS crews. Paramedics say that incidents that keep them from doing their jobs and endanger their lives happen roughly once a day. - PUB DATE: 6/7/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WLS-TV ABC 7 Chicago
Retiring Escondido Fire Chief Mike Lowry remembers one traffic accident call back in 1992 that changed his life. Already with the city’s fire department for a decade, Lowry was the captain of a truck company that responded to a head-on collision on East Valley Parkway. A mother and her two twin little girls had been headed into town to buy things for the twin’s upcoming birthday party when an impaired driver crossed into their lane. - PUB DATE: 6/6/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: san diegoo union tribune
